For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Luke 1:44 NABRE Mary learns her relative Elizabeth will be an instrument of God is with child for six months already. God blesses Elizabeth with a child who becomes John…
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I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. John 15:11 NABRE Jesus has been speaking to His disciples about the relationship between Himself and His Father, their communion so complete that seeing Jesus is seeing the Father. Jesus turns…
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Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. Matthew 28:8 NABRE Mary Magdala and the other Mary are going to Jesus’ tomb with spices to complete the burial rites left by Joseph of Arimathea who places Jesus body in…
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Do everything without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like lights in the world, Philippians 2:14-15 NABRE Paul writing to the community at Philippi is challenging them to…
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Those who sow in tears will reap with cries of joy. Psalms 126:5 NABRE This is a psalm of joy from the point of view of returned exiles. The Lord cares for his people and as the pilgrims reach the city, they re-live the joy felt as repatriated exiles. It…
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