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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Sacraments (The Holy Mysteries)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Baptism </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Confirmation (Chrismation)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Eucharist </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Penance (Confession, Reconciliation)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Matrimony </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Holy Orders </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Extreme Unction (Annointing of the Sick</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Corporal Works of Mercy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.To feed the hungry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.To give drink to the thirsty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.To clothe the naked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.To shelter the homeless </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.To visit the sick </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.To visit the imprisoned </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.To bury the dead</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.To counsel the doubtful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.To instruct the ignorant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.To admonish the sinner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.To comfort the sorrowful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.To forgive all injuries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.To bear wrongs patiently</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.To pray for the living and the dead </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Eminent Good Works</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Prayer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Fasting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Almsgiving </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Wisdom </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Understanding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Counsel </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Fortitude </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Knowledge </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Piety </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Fear of the Lord</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Class of Gifts of the Holy Ghost known as Charismata</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Gift of speaking with wisdom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Gift of speaking with knowledge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Faith</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Grace of healing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Gift of miracles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Gift of prophecy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Gift of discerning spirits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Gift of tongues </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Gift of interpreting speeches </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 12 Fruits of the Holy Ghost </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Charity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Joy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Peace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Patience </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Benignity </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Goodness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Longanimity </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Mildness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Faith </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.Modesty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.Continency </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.Chastity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Theological Virtues </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Faith </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Hope </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Charity </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 4 Cardinal Virtues </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Prudence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Justice </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Fortitude </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Temperance </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Capital Sins</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Pride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Greed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Lust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Anger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Gluttony</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Envy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Sloth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 6 Sins against the Holy Ghost </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Presumption </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Despair </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Resisting the known truth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Envy of another’s spiritual good </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Obstinacy in sin </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Final impenitence </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Willful murder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.The sin of Sodom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Oppression of the poor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Defrauding laborers of their wages</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Conditions for Mortal Sin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Grave matter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Full knowledge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Deliberate consent</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 9 Ways We Participate in Others' Sins</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.By counsel </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.By command </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.By consent </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.By provocation </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.By praise or flattery </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.By concealment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.By partaking </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.By silence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.By defense of the ill done </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 10 Commandments </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Thou shalt not have other gods besides Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Honor thy father and thy mother </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Thou shalt not murder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Thou shalt not commit adultery </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Thou shalt not steal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 2 Greatest Commandments </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.To love thy neighbor as thyself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Evangelical Counsels </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Voluntary poverty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Perpetual chastity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Entire obedience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 6 Precepts of the Church (The Duties of a Catholic) </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.To go to Mass and refrain from servile work on Sundays and holy days</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.To go to Confession at least once a year (traditionally done during Lent)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.To receive the Eucharist at least once a year, during the Easter Season (known as the "Easter duty") </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.To observe the days of fasting and abstinence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.To help to provide for the needs of the Church according to one's abilities and station in life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.To obey the marriage laws of the Church </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Powers of the Soul </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Memory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Intellect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Will </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 4 Pillars of the Catholic Faith </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.The Apostles Creed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.The Seven Sacraments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.The Ten Commandments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.The Lord's Prayer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Pillars of the Church's Authority</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Sacred Scripture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Sacred Tradition</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Living Magisterium </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Munera (Duties of the Ordained)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Munus docendi (duty to teach, based on Christ's role as Prophet)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Munus sanctificandi (duty to sanctify, based on Chris's role as Priest)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Munus regendi (duty to shepherd, based on Christ's role as King) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Parts of the Church</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.The Church Militant (Christians on Earth)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.The Church Suffering (Christians in Purgatory)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.The Church Triumphant (Christians in Heaven) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 4 Marks of the Church</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Unity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Sanctity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Catholicity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Apostolicity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 12 Tribes of Israel </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order of their birth:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Reuben</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Simeon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Levi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Judah</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Zabulon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Issachar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Dan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Gad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Asher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.Naphtali</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.Joseph (Menasseh and Ephraim)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.Benjamin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 8 Beatitudes </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Blessed are the meek: for they shall posses the land. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 14 Stations of the Cross </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Jesus is Condemned to Die </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Jesus is Made to Bear His Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Jesus Falls the First Time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Jesus Meets His Mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Veronica Wipes Jesus' Face </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Jesus Falls the Second Time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Jesus Falls the Third Time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.Jesus is Stripped </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.Jesus is Nailed to the Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.Jesus Dies on the Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13.Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14.Jesus is Laid in the Tomb </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 15 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary & When They are Prayed</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Joyful</i></b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Annunciation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Visitation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Nativity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Presentation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Finding Jesus in the Temple</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Sorrowful</i></b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Agony in the Garden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.The Scourging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Crowning with thorns</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Carrying of the Cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Crucifixion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Glorious</i></b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Resurrection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Ascension</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Pentecost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Assumption</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Crowning of Mary</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Mondays: Joyful</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Tuesdays: Sorrowful</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Wednesdays:Glorious</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Thursdays: Joyful</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fridays: Sorrowful</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Saturdays: Glorious</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Sundays in Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany: Joyful</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Sundays in Eastertide & Time After Pentecost:Glorious</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>All of Septuagesima & Lent: Sorrowful</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 9 Choirs of Angels</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In ascending order: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Angels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Archangels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Principalities</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Powers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.Virtues</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.Dominions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Thrones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.Cherubim </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.Seraphim</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 3 Levels of Reverence </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Dulia:the reverence we give to Saints</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Hyperdulia:the reverence we give to Mary as the greatest of Saints and Mother of God</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Latria:the reverence and worship we give to God alone </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 14 Holy Helpers </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.St. George, Martyr, April 23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, February 3 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.St. Pantaleon, Martyr, July 27 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.St. Vitus, Martyr, June 15 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.St. Erasmus (Elmo), Bishop and Martyr, June 2 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.St. Christopher, Martyr, July 25 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.St. Giles, Abbot, September 1 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.St. Cyriacus (Cyriac), Martyr, August 8 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.St. Achatius, Martyr, May 8 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.St. Dionysius (Denis), Bishop and Martyr, October 9 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.St. Eustachius (Eustace), Martyr, September 20 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr, November 25 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13.St. Margaret of Antioch, Virgin and Martyr, July 20 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14.St. Barbara, Virgin and Martyr, December 4 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 7 Last Words of Christ </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Woman, behold thy son. . . .Behold thy mother. (John 19:26-27) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? (My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?) (Matthew 27:46, ref. Psalm 21) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.I thirst. (John 19:28) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.It is consummated.(John 19:30) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. (Luke 23:46, ref. Psalm 30:6) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The 4 Last Things (The Novissima)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.Death</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.Judgement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.Heaven</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Hell</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">34</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">37</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">38</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">39</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And we are witnesses to all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">40</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">but God raised him on the third day and made him manifest;</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">41</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">42</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">43</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures for ever." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.</span></div>
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BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-48025969352689681502016-03-26T00:00:00.000-07:002016-03-27T19:46:04.218-07:00Saturday, March 26, 2016 (Holy Saturday Night: The Easter Vigil)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Holy Saturday Night: The Easter Vigil</div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="31" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">20</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">21</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">25</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">26</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">27</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">28</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">29</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">30</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">31</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="2" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.</span></div>
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Psalms 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12-14, 24, 35</div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">By them the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">From thy lofty abode thou waterest the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">35</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Abraham called the name of that place The LORD will provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and said, "By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="17" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">20</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">21</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">25</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">26</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">27</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">28</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">29</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">30</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">31</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="1" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The LORD will reign for ever and ever."</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For the LORD has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the LORD, your Redeemer. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"For this is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the prosperity of your sons. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="13" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Hear the commandments of life, O Israel; give ear, and learn wisdom! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies, that you are growing old in a foreign country, that you are defiled with the dead, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">that you are counted among those in Hades? </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">If you had walked in the way of God, you would be dwelling in peace for ever. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, where there is understanding, that you may at the same time discern where there is length of days, and life, where there is light for the eyes, and peace. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Who has found her place? And who has entered her storehouses? </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">32</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But he who knows all things knows her, he found her by his understanding. He who prepared the earth for all time filled it with four-footed creatures; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">33</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">he who sends forth the light, and it goes, called it, and it obeyed him in fear; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">34</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">the stars shone in their watches, and were glad; he called them, and they said, "Here we are!" They shone with gladness for him who made them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">35</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">This is our God; no other can be compared to him! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">36</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He found the whole way to knowledge, and gave her to Jacob his servant and to Israel whom he loved. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">37</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Afterward she appeared upon earth and lived among men.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="4" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">She is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever. All who hold her fast will live, and those who forsake her will die. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Turn, O Jacob, and take her; walk toward the shining of her light. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Do not give your glory to another, or your advantages to an alien people.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is pleasing to God.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The word of the LORD came to me: </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">20</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, `These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.' </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">21</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">25</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">26</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">27</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">28</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="2" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">42</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. </span><span class="chapter" data-verses="2" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">43</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">but when they went in they did not find the body. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And they remembered his words, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now it was Mary Mag'dalene and Jo-an'na and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="3" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">52</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">As many were astonished at him -- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men -- </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="12" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">53</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">In thee, O LORD, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But I trust in thee, O LORD, I say, "Thou art my God." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love! </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="3" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="3" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered;</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,</span></div>
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<span class="chapter" data-verses="40" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Judas, procuring a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When he said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Again he asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">This was to fulfil the word which he had spoken, "Of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">First they led him to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">It was Ca'iaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. As this disciple was known to the high priest, he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">while Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the maid who kept the door, and brought Peter in. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">20</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">21</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Annas then sent him bound to Ca'iaphas the high priest. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">25</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">26</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">27</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">28</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then they led Jesus from the house of Ca'iaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">29</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">30</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">They answered him, "If this man were not an evildoer, we would not have handed him over." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">31</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to death." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">32</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">This was to fulfil the word which Jesus had spoken to show by what death he was to die. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">33</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">34</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">35</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">36</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered, "My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">37</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">38</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, "I find no crime in him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">39</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover; will you have me release for you the King of the Jews?" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">40</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">They cried out again, "Not this man, but Barab'bas!" Now Barab'bas was a robber.</span><span class="chapter" data-verses="42" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">they came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate went out again, and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God."</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave no answer. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">10</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate therefore said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?"</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">11</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">12</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">13</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gab'batha. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">14</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">15</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">16</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">17</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">18</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">19</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">20</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">21</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, `The King of the Jews,' but, `This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">22</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">23</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">24</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." This was to fulfil the scripture, "They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">25</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag'dalene.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">26</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">27</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">28</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), "I thirst." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">29</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">A bowl full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">30</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished"; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">31</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">32</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">33</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">34</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">35</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">He who saw it has borne witness -- his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth -- that you also may believe. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">36</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of him shall be broken." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">37</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">And again another scripture says, "They shall look on him whom they have pierced." </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">38</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">After this Joseph of Arimathe'a, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">39</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Nicode'mus also, who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">40</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">41</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">42</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.</span></div>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">1</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">2</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">"This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">3</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall</span><br>
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<span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">4</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">5</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">6</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">7</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;</span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">8</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. </span><span class="verse" style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">9</span><span class="text" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px;">Behold, </span><br>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: proxima_nova_rgregular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Munroe, 60, founder and president of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, died along with his wife, Ruth, co-pastor Richard Pinder and six other people when the small plane they were flying in struck a shipping crane on approach to landing in stormy weather Sunday night at Grand Bahama International Airport,the ministry and Bahamian authorities said.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: proxima_nova_rgregular, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Dr. Myles Munroe, along with his wife and daughter, died in a plane crash on Sunday, November 9, 2014. The small plane crashed into a crane as it was approaching the Grand Bahama Airport. Dr. Munroe and eight other passengers were on the Lear 36 jet which left the Lynden Pindling International Airport at 4:07 p.m. According to the Department of Civil Aviation, the aircraft crashed as it was making its landing.</span></span><br>
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<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"> U.S. Cardinal Burke Dethroned From Vatican Supreme Court </span></b><br /><br /> VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has removed U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke from the Vatican Supreme Court. Cardinal Burke, a conservative who made himself a leader of the Vatican faction that obstructs Pope Francis' reformist agenda, was finally flushed out and demoted to a largely ceremonial post..<br /> It is one more sign that Francis is determined to flush out bishops, cardinals and bureaucrats who stand in way of progress, says the Associated Press. Burke has been highly disrespectful. He publicly attacks the Pope's church leadership and organizes opposition to the Pope's initiatives: For example:<br /> (1). Burke politicized U.S. Catholic Church by leading campaigns to deny Communion to Catholic politicians who won't support conservative agendas<br /> (2): Burke publicly re-butted the Pope's pronouncements and approaches<br /> (3): In October, 2014 Cardinal Burke organized Catholic conservative from around the world to directly criticize Francis for proposing reform to Vatican rules that needlessly ban Communion for divorced, remarried Catholics<br /> (4): When Pope Francis denounced the excesses of global capitalism that impoverishes poor nations for the benefit of corporations it was Cardinal Burke, not the global business community, that publicly attacked the Pope.<br /> Catholicism is growing the fastest in Africa and Asia and South America has the world's biggest concentration of Catholics. So Pope Francis moved to construct a Vatican Leadership hierarchy that is noticeably more diverse so that the Church leadership could reflect Africans, Asians as well as Latinos. <br /> When Pope Francis unveiled his first large batch of Cardinal appointees in January, 2014, it was largely made up of bishops from countries outside of the Western world. Conservative bishops complained about these reforms.<br /> Pope Francis and Cardinal Burke also differs in style. While Francis wears simple white garment (and meets with poor/sick people), Burke dresses up in specially embroidered green garments that cost as much as $20,000 and meets mainly with Catholic business executives. Burke's final disrespect to the Pope may have happened in November when Burke compared the Pope's leadership of the Catholic Church as "a ship without a rudder."<br /> That was the last straw of insult that broke the Cardinal's back!<br /> In 2013, as warning, Pope Francis removed Cardinal Burke from Vatican's powerful Congregation for Bishops, which handles appointments of bishops worldwide. But by Saturday, November 8, 2014, the Pope had had enough. His Holiness removed Cardinal Burke from the Vatican Supreme Court and transferred him to the largely ceremonial post of "Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta," a charity whose activities include monitoring drug abuse clinics, hospitals and residences for the elderly around the world.<br />
<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"> OPENNESS AND CHANGE ARE INEVITABLE!<br /> THE ALMIGHTY LOVES PROGRESSIVE CHANGE!!<br /> POPE FRANCIS HAS GOD'S WIND ON HIS BACK!!!</span></div>
BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-69095962520266514172013-12-07T13:02:00.001-08:002013-12-07T13:04:14.694-08:00Chris Okotie’s Church explains why beauty queen contest will be carried out.<p dir=ltr>Chris Okotie’s Household of God church via their Facebook page, have explained the concept behind the beauty pageant they intend carrying<br>
out this Sunday.<br>
The beauty queen contest is tagged Queen Esther pageant competition.<br>
According to them, it is geared towards selecting an ambassador for the church.<br>
“The evening usually features the parade and display of beautiful women in costumes inspired<br>
by popular female bible characters. The contestant with the most creative costume is then crowned as the Queen Esther and gets a<br>
cash prize of one million naira,” the post read.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my words to the King.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Psalm xliv. 2</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>First Reading: Isaiah 2:1-5</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1 The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm: Psalm 122:1-9</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!"</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2 Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3 Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4 to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5 There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they prosper who love you!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7 Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!"</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8 For my brethren and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!"</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Second Reading: Romans 13:11-14</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">11Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">12 the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">13 let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Gospel: Matthew 24:37-44</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">39 and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">42 Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">43 But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">44 Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, December 02, 2013 (Advent Weekday)</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Ps. xlvi. 6</span><br>
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">READINGS </b><br>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Isaiah 2:1-5 or Isaiah 4:2-6</span><br>
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Amen</p>
<p dir=ltr><b>PRAYER FOR ALL THE DECEASED</b><br>
By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ,<br>
death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness.<br>
So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants [names] in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until<br>
now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and<br>
passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand<br>
ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Eternal rest grant unto them.<br>
We pray O LORD. Amen."</p>
BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-51726152011953412952013-10-22T23:21:00.001-07:002013-10-22T23:21:52.101-07:00BBM on Android and IOS<p dir=ltr>BBM For Andriod & iPhone Now Available - See How To Download, Below is the Steps required to get it<br>
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(Feast Day: October 9)<br>
Martyred by beheading. After his head was<br>
chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked six miles from the summit of the hill preaching a sermon entire way.</p>
<p dir=ltr>St. Denis, Pray for us!</p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Sunday, October 06, 2013 (Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cast thy care upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- Psalm liv, 23</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>First Reading: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Habakkuk Complains of Injustice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 O Lord, how long must I call for help before you listen, before you save us from violence? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 Why do you make me see such trouble? How can you stand to look on such wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are all around me, and there is fighting and quarreling everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Habakkuk 2:2-4</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 The Lord gave me this answer: “Write down clearly on tablets what I reveal to you, so that it can be read at a glance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 Put it in writing, because it is not yet time for it to come true. But the time is coming quickly, and what I show you will come true. It may seem slow in coming, but wait for it; it will certainly take place, and it will not be delayed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4 And this is the message: ‘Those who are evil will not survive, but those who are righteous will live because they are faithful to God.’”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Worship and Obey the Lord</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 Sing joyful songs to the Lord! Praise the mighty rock where we are safe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 Come to worship him with thankful hearts and songs of praise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 Bow down and worship the Lord our Creator!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7 The Lord is our God, and we are his people, the sheep he takes care of in his own pasture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to God's voice today!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8 Don't be stubborn and rebel as your ancestors did at Meribah and Massah out in the desert.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9 For forty years they tested God and saw the things he did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Second Reading: 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 For this reason I remind you to keep alive the gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7 For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8 Do not be ashamed, then, of witnessing for our Lord; neither be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake. Instead, take your part in suffering for the Good News, as God gives you the strength for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13 Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow, and remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14 Through the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, keep the good things that have been entrusted to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Gospel: Luke 17:5-10</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Faith</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Make our faith greater.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 The Lord answered, “If you had faith as big as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea!’ and it would obey you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A Servant's Duty</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7 “Suppose one of you has a servant who is plowing or looking after the sheep. When he comes in from the field, do you tell him to hurry along and eat his meal? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8 Of course not! Instead, you say to him, ‘Get my supper ready, then put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may have your meal.’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9 The servant does not deserve thanks for obeying orders, does he? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, ‘We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.’”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, October 07, 2013 {Our Lady of the Rosary (Memorial)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him. I will fill him with length of days; and I will show him my salvation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- Psalm xc. 15, 16</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Acts 1:12-14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm: Luke 1:46-55</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 1:26-38</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday, October 08, 2013 (Weekday)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until He have mercy on us. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- Psalm cxx. 2,3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Jonah 3:1-10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 130:1-4, 7-8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 10:38-42</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday, October 09, 2013 (Weekday)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let my prayer be directed as incense in Thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- Psalm cxl. 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>First Reading: Jonah 4:1-11</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Psalm: Psalm 86:3-6, 9-10</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Gospel: Luke 11:1-4</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Thursday, October 10, 2013 (Weekday)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- St Francis Xavier</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Malachi 3:13-20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 1:1-4, 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 11:5-13</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Friday, October 11, 2013 (Weekday)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities. See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- Psalm xxiv. 17, 18</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 9:2-3, 6, 16, 8-9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 11:15-26</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Saturday, October 12, 2013 {St. Seraphin of Montegranaro, Religious (Memorial)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REFLECTION</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many people would like to attain union with God but they cannot bear the contradictions he sends them. They hate the sickness which strikes them, or the poverty they suffer, or the insults they receive. Since they cannot be resigned, they never succeed in reaching total union with God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- St Alphonsus de Liguori</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>READINGS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Joel 4:12-21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 11:27-28</span></div>
BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-6459337562034474942013-10-03T12:47:00.001-07:002013-10-03T12:47:02.548-07:00What's his Name<p dir=ltr>There was a man,<br>
+ He never went to school but he was called The TEACHER.<br>
+ He never studied chemistry yet he turn<br>
water 2 wine without a chemical reaction.<br>
+ He did not study medicine yet He was called<br>
great PHYSICIAN.<br>
+ He never studied law yet he was called an<br>
ADVOCATE.<br>
+ He was never a science student yet He<br>
proofed the LAW OF GRAVITY wrong, And<br>
walk on water.<br>
+ The baker's called him d BREAD OF LIFE.<br>
+ The zoologist called him D LION OF JUDAH.<br>
+ The botanist called him d TREE oF LIFE.<br>
+ The footballer called him D GOD OF SOCCER.<br>
+ The warrior called him d MIGHTY MAN In<br>
BATTLE.<br>
+ The nation called him d KING of KINGS.<br>
+ Thou he was born in a manger yet the<br>
world celebrate him.<br>
===>What is the Name u called him????????</p>
BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-12471120351785743712013-09-28T23:53:00.002-07:002013-10-01T15:12:19.027-07:00Readings and Reflections for the WEEk!! (Sunday, 29th Sept - Saturday, Oct 5th)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday, September 29, 2013 (Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time)</span></b><br>
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<b>Reflection</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God wishes us not to rest upon anything but His infinite Goodness. Do not let us expect anything but from Him, and let us put our trust and confidence in Him alone.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-- St Charles Borromeo</span><br>
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<b>Readings</b></span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First Reading: Amohs 6:1, 4-7</span></b><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(The Destruction of Israel)</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 How terrible it will be for you that have such an easy life in Zion and for you that feel safe in Samaria—you great leaders of this great nation Israel, you to whom the people go for help!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4 How terrible it will be for you that stretch out on your luxurious couches, feasting on veal and lamb! </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5 You like to compose songs, as David did, and play them on harps. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest perfumes, but you do not mourn over the ruin of Israel. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7 So you will be the first to go into exile. Your feasts and </span><br>
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BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-3583729772105663992013-08-04T07:05:00.000-07:002013-08-07T07:08:10.336-07:00READINGS AND REFLECTIONS FOR THE WEEK (4th August to 10th August, 2013)<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sunday, August 04, 2013 (Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">READINGS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 90:3-6, 12-14, 17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 12:13-21</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his Creator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Gaudium et spes</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Monday, August 05, 2013 [Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome (Optional Memorial)]</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">READINGS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Numbers 11:4-15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 81:12-17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- St. Augustine</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday, August 06, 2013 [The Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast)]</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">READINGS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second Reading: 2 Peter 1:16-19</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel:Luke 9:28-36</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is clear therefore that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church are so connected and associated that one of them cannot stand without the others. Working together, each in its own way, under the action of the one Holy Spirit, they all contribute effectively to the salvation of souls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Dei Verbum</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wednesday, August 07, 2013 (Weekday)</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">READINGS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Numbers 13:1-2, 25 -- 14:1, 26-29, 34-35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 106:6-7, 13-14, 21-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">REFLECTION</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Belief in the Eucharist is a treasure we must seek by submissiveness, preserve by piety, and defend at any cost. Not to believe in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest of misfortunes.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thursday, August 08, 2013 [Holy Father Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers (Feast)]</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: 2 Timothy 4:1-5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 37:3-6, 30-31</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Behold a great priest who in his days pleased the Lord, and was found righteous; and in the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Ecclus 44:16</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday, August 09, 2013 [St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Virgin and Martyr (Optional Memorial)]</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 77:12-16, 21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have found David My servant, with My holy oil I have anointed him; for My hand shall help him, and My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall have no advantage over him, and the son of iniquity shall not hurt him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Psalm 88: 21-23</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saturday, August 10, 2013 [St. Lawrence, Deacon, Martyr (Feast)]</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">READINGS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm 112:1-2, 5-9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: John 12:24-26</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">REFLECTION</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Sunday, July 28, 2013 (Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Genesis 18:20-32</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second Reading: Colossians 2:12-14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 11:1-13</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings, O God, Thou hast perfected praise, because of Thy enemies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Psalm viii. 3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, July 29, 2013 {St. Martha (Memorial)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 106:19-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: John 11:19-27 or Luke 10:38-42</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The father of the just rejoiceth greatly, let Thy father and mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore Thee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Proverbs xxiii. 24,25</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (Weekday)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5-9, 28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 103:6-13</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 13:36-43</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- St. Irenaeus, Adversus haereses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday, July 31, 2013 {St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (Memorial)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Exodus 34:29-35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 99:5-7, 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Come ye after me and I will make you to be fishers of men; and they, immediately leaving their nets, followed the lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Matt. 4: 19-20</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Thursday, August 01, 2013 {St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church (Memorial)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 84:3-6, 8, 11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 13:47-53</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days' darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: He, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- St Damasus (from an epitaph written for himself)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Friday, August 02, 2013 {Our Lady of the Angels of Portiuncula (Solemnity)}</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Sirach 24:1-4, 16, 22-24</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 34:5, 7, 9-10, 18-19</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second Reading: Galatians 4:3-7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Luke 1:26-33</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The more Christian and conscious people are of their dignity and of their vital role in the Church, the more they urgently feel the need for priests who are truly priests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Pope John Paul</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Saturday, August 03, 2013 (Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Reading: Leviticus 25:1, 8-17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psalm: Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 7-8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fidélium ánimae per misericordiam Dei requiéscant in pace. Amen May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">-- Fidélium ánimae</span></div>
BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-68009259335807422202013-07-29T04:15:00.001-07:002013-07-29T04:16:47.268-07:00NOBODY FORCED ME INTO ISLAM CHARITY UZOECHINA INSISTS!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wonder if she did this for the love of the religion or for money, you know we are very sharp in Africa, very very very Sharp, especially the Females!!!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MISS Charity Uzoechina, who still lives in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, after converting to Islam, has finally broken her silence. She called on Nigerians to leave her alone to practice the religion of her choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a telephone conversation with Vanguard yesterday, Charity insisted that nobody forced her into the religion and that she should be left alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She said: “I did it on my own. Nobody forced or enticed me to become a Muslim. I converted to Islam on my own. Am I the first to convert to Islam in Nigeria? So what is it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her father, Pastor Raymond Uzoechina, had earlier said that Charity was abducted and hypnotised to say and do what she was doing. He challenged the Nupe to produce Charity in court for cross-examination by his lawyer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, Charity said: “I know people are influencing my father and I am praying for him and other members of my family to know that this is the right religion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On whether or not she would go home with her father if eventually the rift was settled, Charity, who has changed her name to Aisha, insisted that she was not interested in going back home with her father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She said: “I am not going back to my father because of his actions in recent times. He has been threatening me and at my age (25), I am free to practice any religion of my choice and so, I should be left to decide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“If I want to sue him to court, I can at this my age because it is my right to practice any religion I want.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Niger State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has waded into matter and hoped that the issue would be resolved out of court before the August 1 date for ruling on the appeal filed by Pastor Uzoechina on the earlier ruling of the Sharia, granting the palace custody of Charity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Niger State CAN Chairman, Rev. Musa Dada, told Vanguard that CAN had visited the Etsu Nupe’s palace along with other CAN officials from Abuja officially on the matter and that plans were on to settle the case out of court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rev. Dada, who was reluctant to discuss the issue in details, simply said: “We have met with the Etsu Nupe and other stake holders involved at the Etsu’s palace and we have made progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I can assure you that probably before the August 1 (Thursday) date, when the case is expected to come up at the Sharia Court, Bida, something positive is likely to come out which will put an end to the rift.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Source: See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/nobody-forced-me-into-islam-charity-uzoechina-insists/#sthash.NuLpEqjW.dpuf</span></span></div>
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BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-11662961561412190862013-07-28T10:14:00.000-07:002013-07-29T10:20:43.056-07:00Quote of the Week; Pope Francis on GAY people Things!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">According to the Associated Press, below is what Pope Francis said when quizzed about gay priests during his transatlantic flight home following a week-long trip to Brazil...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn’t judge priests for their sexual orientation.... <i>"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"</i> Francis asked.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"When I meet a gay person, I have to distinguish between their being gay and being part of a lobby. If they accept the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge them? They shouldn’t be marginalized. The tendency [to homosexuality] is not the problem...they’re our brothers.”</span></blockquote>
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BimentalCohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568776888034366828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6102017853726829907.post-58707171772119331912013-07-14T00:58:00.001-07:002013-07-14T01:05:28.120-07:00
READINGS and REFLECTION FOR TODAY
Sunday, July 14, 2013 (Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)<p><i><b>REFLECION FOR THE DAY</b></i><br>
Before Me there was no god formed, and after Me there shall be none;<br>
for every knee shall be bowed to Me, and every tongue shall confess<br>
Me.<br>
-- Is xliii. 10, Is xlv. 24</p>
<p><i><b>READINGS FOR TODAY</b></i><br>
<i><b>Sunday, July 14, 2013 (Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time)</b></i></p>
<p>First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:10-14</p>
<p>Psalm: Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37 or Psalm 19:8-11</p>
<p>Second Reading: Colossians 1:15-20</p>
<p>Gospel: Luke 10:25-37</p>
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