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Last March, when the world shut down as the COVID-19 pandemic began to ramp up, the reality of being forced to stay at home didn’t disturb me. My more extroverted children and friends were not coping well. I, however, just pulled on my “Social Distancing Expert” T-shirt and hunkered down
Jeremiah tells us not to put our confidence in human beings. Only the Lord deserves our full trust.
The Ten Commandments–what one Scripture scholar calls the “Bill of God’s Rights in the covenant”–spell out the responsibilities of God’s people–their part of the covenant agreement.
Jeremiah has been preaching about the people’s sinfulness but they are not receptive. Today’s reading is a foretaste of the response that Jesus would receive to his preaching.
Thousands of Lebanese rallied Feb. 27 to show their support for the positions of Cardinal Bechara Rai as the country teeters on the verge of collapse from multiple crises.
God calls his people to repentance. At the same time, the Lord expresses his willingness to forgive. God is willing to forgive us if we are willing to abandon our sins.
Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon called for patience and tolerance on a day when at least 18 anti-coup protesters were shot dead by Myanmar security forces.
That is what holy moments always feel like: I am great beyond belief and I am a little dot in the universe. This experience only needs to happen once, just as it did for Peter, James, and John.
You are to love with the same kind of love that God loves you, which is total unconditional love. This is the summit and goal of all Jesus’ moral teaching, and we cannot possibly follow it apart from divine union.
In the course of Psalm 119 the author uses no fewer than eight synonyms to express God’s gift of self-revelation. No matter how you say it, God’s intervention is a source of blessing.
