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Verse of the Day: God's Bounty
06-09-2010
On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food.
Verse of the Day: Messengers of Good News
06-08-2010
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Voice of the Day: Dorothy Day
06-08-2010
The Gospels record that Jesus preached good news to the poor, and an essential part of that good news was that they were to be poor no longer.
Prayer of the Day: Disability
06-08-2010
God, we lift up to you all who are disabled - in hearing, in sight, in limb or in mind. Save them from bitterness and frustration, and give them joy in the midst of their limitations.
Prayer of the Day: Peace (Psalm 23)
06-07-2010
You, Lord, are my shepherd; I shall not want. You make me lie down in green pastures; you lead me beside still waters; you restore my soul. You lead me in right paths for your name's sake.
Verse of the Day: Newness in Christ
06-07-2010
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the imag
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
06-07-2010
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil.
Verse of the Day: 'Sing to the Lord'
06-04-2010
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;
make melody to our God on the lyre.
[God] covers the heavens with clouds,
prepares rain for the earth,
Voice of the Day: Wangari Maathai
06-04-2010
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources, and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy, and peace.
Prayer of the Day: Give Me Work
06-04-2010
God, give me work till my life shall end. And life till my work is done.
Written on the grave of novelist Winifred Holtby; Rudstone, Yorkshire.
Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton
06-03-2010
It has never been either practical or useful to leave all things and follow Christ. And yet it is spiritually prudent.
Prayer of the Day: Immigrants, Widows and Orphans
06-03-2010
Just as you brought the Israelites from slavery, you redeemed us from the slavery of sin.
Verse of the Day: 'Run with perseverance'
06-03-2010
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, loo
Voice of the Day: Mary Oliver
06-02-2010
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.
Prayer of the Day: Guatemala & Central America
06-02-2010
Lord, we pray for our brothers and sisters in Central America who are already facing the beginning of hurricane season.
Verse of the Day: Do Not Trust in Mortals
06-02-2010
Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortals, in whom there is no help.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
on that very day their plans perish.
Voice of the Day: Edward J. Farrell
06-01-2010
To retreat is always a time of knowing ourselves that we may know Christ, and of knowing Christ that we may know ourselves.
Prayer of the Day: Gulf of Mexico
06-01-2010
We pray for those in the Gulf of Mexico who are trying to stop the oil leak and curb the devastation; may your hand bless their efforts.
Verse of the Day: 'Be still'
06-01-2010
Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.
- Psalm 46:10
Prayer of the Day: Strength to persevere
05-27-2010
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.