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Welcome to the "Bible Blog!"

 

Here, from time-to-time, I will share some (hopefully inspirational) thoughts and reflections on a timely passage from the Holy Scriptures.  Most often, the passage will be from the readings assigned for the nearest Sunday or Holy Day.

 

I hope you find these posts helpful.


Come after me...

"Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

This sentence from the beginning of the Gospel according to St. Mark reminds us of what we are here for: To "catch" people for Christ.

The . . . Read More


"This day is fullfilled This Scripture"

"The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.  And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled This Scripture in your hearing."  (Luke 4:20-21)

 

There is, unfortunately, no shortage . . . Read More


"Do Whatever He tells you"

"When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to Him, 'They have no wine.'  And Jesus said to her, 'Woman, how does your concern affect Me?  My hour has not yet come.'  His mother said to the servers, 'Do . . . Read More


And they Came with Haste...

"And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the Infant lying in the manger..."

~Luke 2:16~

 

Most of us are quite used to doing things in "haste" at this time . . . Read More


Mary Set out...

"Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.  When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in . . . Read More


...to clear His threshing floor

"His winnowing fan is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire."  ~ Luke 3:18

Sometimes we like to think that God . . . Read More


All Flesh Shall See...

"John went throughout the whole region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one crying out in the desert: Prepare . . . Read More


 

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