Tagged: Bible Reading & Meditation

“It also happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king.” —2 Maccabees 7:1 This nameless Old Testament family prefigures the Christian family. How holy, fearless, and faithful a Christian family can be when united with the Lord and one another and deeply grounded in faith in Jesus’ Resurrection and our resurrection from the dead! This family loved God and each other so much that all seven brothers with their mother suffered mutilation, torture, and execution so as to be faithful to the Lord. This was a family of eight saints,...

“Zeal for Your house consumes Me.” —John 2:17 Today we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral Church of the Pope. Why do we celebrate our unity with the Pope and his church? It is because our unity with the Pope gives us strength and power. Those united to the Pope have an anointing from God that cannot be obtained any other way. Furthermore, our unity with the Pope protects us from deception and confusion. This will become even more significant as we near the mass apostasy at the end of the world (2 Thes 2:3). In His...

“If anyone comes to Me without turning his back on his father and mother, his wife and his children, his brothers and sisters, indeed his very self, he cannot be My follower.” —Luke 14:26 To be a disciple of Jesus is the most radical commitment. The relationship of Jesus’ disciples with Him is in a class by itself. In comparison with our love for Jesus, all other loves seem as hatred. Our relationship with Jesus is to be supreme. It is more important than our lives. We will gladly carry daily crosses to be faithful as Jesus’ disciples (Lk 14:27;...

“Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them.” —Romans 12:6, RNAB The Lord has given His children great gifts. Among the greatest of these gifts are charisms, the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. We have gifts of prophecy, faith, ministry, teaching, exhortation, almsgiving, leadership, and mercy (Rm 12:6-8). None of us has all these gifts, but we have many of them — in addition to many other charisms. By the development and use of these gifts of the Spirit, we will have the power to do even greater works than...