Yet even now-oracle of the LORD-return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Joel 2:12 NABRE The prophet is warning the people the day of the Lord is coming, the Lord will come in judgement and everyone must be ready. This chapter opens with imagery to…
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 NABRE This chapter from the prophet Isaiah is a call to conversion, a call to take advantage of the salvific gifts offered; we hear God…
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Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Psalms 90:12 NABRE Hebrew scholars indicate Psalm ninety begins eleven consecutive works composed by Moses, that they correspond to the eleven blessings which Moses bestows upon the eleven tribes as written in Deuteronomy thirty-three, which describes…
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From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17 NABRE Jesus has returned from the wilderness to the land of his upbringing in Galilee. Hearing the news of John the Baptist arrest, taken into to custody by hostile…
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“This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15 NABRE John the Baptist is arrested after Jesus’ Baptism and Jesus enters Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God, the good news, it is a message of salvation that…
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