2+ hour, 36+ min ago  (675+ words) 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said: 2 'Speak to the whole community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy. 11 "You will not steal, nor deal deceitfully or fraudulently with your fellow-citizen. 12 You will not swear…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (168+ words) Imagine being able to sit at the feet of the apostles and hear their stories of life with Jesus from their own lips. Imagine walking with those who had walked with Jesus, seen him, and touched him. That was what…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (947+ words) 7 Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. 8 Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (433+ words) 9 Then you will cry for help and Yahweh will answer; you will call and he will say, 'I am here.' If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words, 10 if you deprive yourself for the hungry…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (169+ words) Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret's mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (139+ words) Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (430+ words) 15 'Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster. 16 If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (153+ words) Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset, England....

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (686+ words) 12 'But now -- declares Yahweh- come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.' 13 Tear your hearts and not your clothes, and come back to Yahweh your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (172+ words) In St. Matthew's Gospel, we read of St. Simon or Simeon who is described as one of our Lord's brethren or kinsmen. His father was Cleophas, St. Joseph's brother, and his mother, according to some writers, was our Lady's sister....