Category: Bible

  • OT Text – 2025-03-24

    ISAIAH 14:24-32The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.” This…

  • OT Text – 2025-03-10 (3)

    GENESIS 3:21-4:7And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and…

  • OT Text – 2025-03-10 (2)

    PROVERBS 3:34-4:22Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace. Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight; for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my…

  • OT Text – 2025-03-10 (1)

    ISAIAH 4:2-5:7In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, every one who has been recorded for life in…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-05 (3)

    GENESIS 1:24-2:3And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-05 (2)

    PROVERBS 2:1-22My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; then…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-05

    ISAIAH 2:3-11Thus say the people: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from…

  • Passover Celebrated Where?

    John Chrysostom, Against the Jews. Homily 3 (6) Do you consider that the Jews are wiser than the Fathers who came from everywhere in the world? How can you do that when the Jews have been driven from their ancestral commonwealth and way of life and have no sacred festival to celebrate? I hear many…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-03 (3)

    GENESIS 1:1-13 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-03 (2)

    PROVERBS 1:1-20The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight, receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity; that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth — the wise man also may hear and increase in…

  • OT Reading – 2025-03-03

    ISAIAH 1:1-20The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzzi’ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki’ah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The…

  • OT Reading – 2025-02-25

    JOEL 3:12-21Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the valley of Jehosh’aphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes, in…

  • Epistle – 2025-02-23

    ST. PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 8:8-13; 9:1-2Brethren, food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. Only take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if any one sees you,…

  • Epistle – 2025-01-18

    ST. JOHN’S FIRST UNIVERSAL LETTER 3:9-22BRETHREN, no one born of God commits sin; for God’s nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is…

  • Epistle – 2025-02-12

    ST. PETER’S SECOND UNIVERSAL LETTER 3:1-18Beloved, this is now the second letter that I have written to you, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder; that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. First…

  • Epistle Reading – 2025-02-11

    ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE HEBREWS 4:14-16; 5:1-6BRETHREN, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted…

  • Does modern Israel play a role in End Times?

    New Testament scholar NT Wright on the question “Does modern Israel play a role in End Times?”

  • Gospel – 2025-02-08

    MATTHEW 10:16-22The Lord said to his disciples, “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for…

  • Epistle – 2025-02-08

    ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS 2:4-10Brethren, God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him…

  • Gospel – 2025-02-07

    MARK 13:1-8At that time, as Jesus came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.” And…

  • The Perpetual Virginity of Mary

    First, why I used to disbelieve in the perpetual virginity of Mary: I wrote a paper in 1997 while at seminary on it where I concluded that it was based on the Protoevangelium of James (ca 150 AD). Origen, if read in particular way, it led me to conclude that. Closer examination of Origin led…

  • Epistle – 2025-01-04

    ST. PETER’S FIRST UNIVERSAL LETTER 3:10-22Beloved, “He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile; let him turn away from evil and do right; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and…

  • Baptism and the Reception of Converts w/ Fr. John Whiteford

  • Destruction of the Temple – Part 2

    John Chrysostom Homily 76 Sermon on Matthew about the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 AD. I should therefore be glad to inquire of the Jews. Whence came there thus upon them wrath from God intolerable, and more sore than all that had befallen aforetime, not in Judæa only, but in any part of…