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Voice of the Day: Bonaventure
04-15-2013
The outcome or the fruit of reading Holy Scripture is by no means negligible: it is the fullnes of eternal happiness. These are the books which tell us of eternal life, which were written, not only that we might believe, but also that we might have everlasting life. The purpose of the Scriptures, which come to us from God, is to lead us to the fullness of the truth. In order to achieve this, we must study holy Scripture carefully, and teach it and listen to it in the same way.
- Bonaventure
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Prayer of the Day: 'Your Image Stamped'
04-15-2013
Lord, we long to be your people in this world where other powers claim our allegiance. You have stamped your image on us. Guide us by your light that we might see clearly who we are and what it means to give ourselves to you. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Verse of the Day: 'Through the Eye of a Camel'
04-15-2013
Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, ‘Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’
- Mark 10:23-25
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04-12-2013
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Voice of the Day: Walter Brueggemann
04-12-2013
Clearly, if "no other god" has any real power and, therefore, any real, substantive existence, it is grossly inappropriate that Israelshould invest such an object with ultimacy. The [Hebrew] word...however, need not be rendered "idol." It is more properly rendered "image," a visible representation of Yahweh. The temptation, then, is not the creation of a rival that detracts from Yahweh, but an attempt to locate and thereby domesticate Yahweh in a visible, controlled object. This latter reading, which is the more probable, is also more subtle. It does not fear a rival but a distortion of Yahweh's free character by an attempt to locate Yahweh and so diminish something of Yahweh's terrible freedom.
- Walter Brueggemann
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Verse of the Day: 'A Kingdom of Love'
04-12-2013
Then a kingdom of love will be set up, and someone from David's family will rule with fairness. He will do what is right and quickly bring justice.
- Isaiah 16:5
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Prayer of the Day: 'Transform our Desires'
04-11-2013
Transform our desires to mirror yours, Lord. Bind us to you and to one another in vows of peace, in obedience to your word, and in the love of the Holy Spirit, which binds you to the Father, one God both now and forever. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Oscar Romero
04-11-2013
I do not tire of telling everyone, especially young people who long for their people's liberation, that I admire their social and political sensitivity, but it saddens me when they waste it by going on ways that are false. Let us, too, all take notice that the great leader of our liberation is the Lord's Anointed One, who comes to announce good news to the poor, to give freedom to the captives, to give news of the missing, to give joy to so many homes in mourning, so that society may be renewed as in the sabbatical years of Israel.
- Archbishop Oscar Romero
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Verse of the Day: Do Not Worry
04-11-2013
And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, strive for his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
- Luke 12:29-31
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04-10-2013
Verse of the Day: Flesh and Bone
04-10-2013
He said to them, ‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.’
- Luke 24:38-39
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Voice of the Day: Clarence Jordan
04-10-2013
The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.
- Clarence Jordan
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04-10-2013
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Prayer of the Day: 'Be with Me'
04-09-2013
Lord, the sea is so wide, and my boat is so small. Be with me.
-A prayer of a Breton fisherman
Voice of the Day: Henri Nouwen
04-09-2013
Our faithfulness will depend on our willingness to go where there is brokenness, loneliness, and human need. If the church has a future it is a future with the poor in whatever form.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Verse of the Day: Bringing Justice
04-09-2013
But the holy LORD God All-Powerful is praised, because he has shown who [God] is by bringing justice. (Poverty and Justice Bible)
- Isaiah 5:16
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Voice of the Day: Julian of Norwich
04-08-2013
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Verse of the Day: 'See that Justice is Done'
04-08-2013
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Prayer of the Day: Persevere
04-08-2013
Holy Spirit, you dwell within us and you teach us perfect love, which drives out all fear. Give us a spirit of courage, and make us bold enough to love one another without fear. Enable us to see that perfect love calls us to persevere in suffering and to trust beyond what is visible. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Verse of the Day: The Golden Rule
04-05-2013
In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
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