Whatsoever Things Are True

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Tuesday

One Born Every Minute!

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"The man who gave Hollywood the Titanic is stirring up biblical scholars and the clergy with a documentary on what he says could be the bones of Jesus - and his son.
James Cameron's "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," which will air Sunday on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 ossuaries - stone caskets used to store bones - discovered in a suburb of Jerusalem in 1980 may have contained the bones of Jesus and his family.

Six of the 10 caskets discovered have names inscribed on them, including "Judah, Son of Jesus," which would imply that Jesus had a child.

And the very fact that Jesus had an ossuary contradicts the Christian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven."

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The Pilgrim's Way


How dear to me is your dwelling, O Lord of hosts!*
My soul has a desire and longing
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
The sparrow has found her a house
and the swallow a nest
where she may lay her young;*
by the side of your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
Happy are they who dwell in your house!*
they will always be praising you.
Happy are the people whose strength is in you!*
whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way.
Those who go through the desolate valley
will find it a place of springs,*
for the early rains have covered it with pools of water.
They will climb from height to height,*
and the God of gods will reveal himself in Zion.
Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;*
hearken, O God of Jacob.
from Psalm 84

Milk and Honey


When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, 2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. 3You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, “Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.” 4When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God, 5you shall make this response before the Lord your God:

“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.
6When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,
7we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
8The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders;
9and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me.”

Thursday

Polycarp of Smyrna, martyr




A Song of Christ the Servant (1 Peter 2.21b-25)

Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example,
that you should follow in his steps.

He committed no sin, no guile was found on his lips,
when he was reviled, he did not revile in turn.

When he suffered, he did not threaten,
but he trusted himself to God who judges justly.

Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

By his wounds, you have been healed,
for you were straying like sheep,
but have now returned
cato the shepherd and guardian of your souls.