“He took away our infirmities and bore our diseases” Matthew 8:17
This is actually a quote from Isaiah 53:4, that is put into the passage to illustrate that Jesus is the promised one. Today this quote is fitting as much of the talk has been about health. Poor Bill is sick, Cheryl is sick and the Chad’s have been sick. So I want only to say a prayer that their infirmities will heal quickly. That is all for today. Except to thank God for our collective good health.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
Today’s Second Reading: It was not through the lawthat the promise was made to Abraham and his descendantsthat he would inherit the world,but through the righteousness that comes from faith.For this reason, it depends on faith,so that it may be a gift,and the promise may be guaranteed to all his descendants,not to those who only…
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Today’s First reading from Isaiah made me choke on my coffee. Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like…