by debracelovsky | Mar 25, 2024 | Lent/Easter, Word
Read Mark 11:12-19 and Matthew 21:12-14 (and see John 2:13-17) Monday of Passion Week begins with a tree. Yesterday, Jesus entered Jerusalem to wild acclaim—a forest of palm branches, cheering crowds, his disciples clearing a path for the humble beast and its humble...
by debracelovsky | Mar 8, 2024 | One Year Bible, Word
I can tell you from continuing experience that we never stop learning things about ourselves. The work of Christ illuminates that self-willed inner us and asks—again and again—what we intend to do about it. Case in point. I was checking out several sites for an...
by debracelovsky | Dec 24, 2023 | Christmas, Word
He was a contemporary of the great Isaiah, a peasant whose work is a mere seven chapters. Micah’s writings have been described as rugged, but clear and intelligible. And it is unlikely that we will experience any Christmastime without hearing or quoting from his...
by debracelovsky | Nov 6, 2023 | Job, Word
denouement: [French] the solution, unraveling, or clarification of a plot in a drama or story “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle,” said Mother Teresa. “I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” In Job’s case,...
by debracelovsky | Oct 30, 2023 | Job, Word
If you were to describe your outlook on life, what would it be? Are you generally pleased with what you see? Do you view everything (and everyone) through the lens of, shall we say, making improvements? I have suffered from time to time from the condition known as The...
by debracelovsky | Sep 13, 2023 | Word
Since in this life the righteous certainly are not saved from evil, it follows that their ways are watched, and their sufferings recorded, with a view to a future and perfect manifestation of the Divine justice. Canon Cook Some years ago, not long after I initially...
