Christ didn’t raise man by becoming man, but by being crucified by man.
If the Lᴏʀᴅ be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. 1 Kings 18:21
When Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lᴏʀᴅ, Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. 1 Kings 18:4
(Obadiah, though Ahab’s steward, feared God.)
And the Lᴏʀᴅ heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1 Kings 17:22
Asa took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 1 Kings 15:12
I like the phrase slept with his fathers. It makes death seem less lonely.
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 1 Kings 11:3
Descartes once constructed a robot in the form of a girl.
The Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded him that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded. 1 Kings 11:10
Rainbow sent to us from Brooklyn.
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? 1 Kings 8:27
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
They shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm. 1 Kings 8:42
There is no man that sinneth not. 1 Kings 8:46
There is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like the Sidonians. 1 Kings 5:6
That would likely have included Jesus had He lived in the time of Solomon.
The heart is willing, but the body is weak. Sc. 82 (cf. Matthew 26:41)
As we get older, our bodies weaken more, but our hearts must be even more willing.
Two Franciscan Knights of the Holy Eucharist attended Mass at Historic St. Mary’s this morning. Of course they knelt and received Communion on the tongue.
