“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed, her iniquity has been pardoned; for she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins. "A voice of one calling: 'Prepare the way for the LORD ...

“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers” (Luke 22:31-32). - Have you been sifted? Are you being sifted? -

"And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it..." (Is. 35:8). unclean טָמֵא ṭâmê' taw-may' A primitive root; to be foul in a religious sense,

"Man is an abyss; what will rise out of these depths, no one can see in advance. And whoever believes that the Church is not only determined by the abyss that is man, but reaches down into the greater, infinite abyss that is God,

"Return, O Israel. Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, 'take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more,

"The Sabbath was the consecration of one day of the weekly period to God as the Author of the universe and of time. The day thus being the Lord's, it required that man should abstain from working for his own ends and interests,

"And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall dwell with them,

"IN this unpretending chapter we have laid bare to us the origin of one of the most striking facts in the history of religion: namely, that from the one person of Abram have sprung Christianity and that religion which has been and still is its most for...

" Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law" (Rom 13:10). Love is the principle of all merit (Fr. Garrigou La Grange). Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Wendee L; Anne K; Stephanie W; and Ann S.

"Look, I am giving all this land to you! Go in and occupy it, for it is the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to all their descendants" (Deut 1:8). Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show,