FLOCKNOTES ARCHIVE

“Beloved: I am grateful to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me trustworthy in appointing me to the ministry. I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and...

‘… After laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ (Lk...

Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. (Lk: 14:13-14) Jesus gives us a new beatitude...

I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations… to the distant coastlands that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the...

“Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household will be divided… a father… against his son and a son against his father…“...

The night of the Passover was known beforehand to our fathers…  For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution....

“There was a rich man… [who] said… I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now … rest, eat, drink; be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life...

“I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence…”; “…to the one who knocks, the...

Martha, burdened with much serving… said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her … There is need of only one thing....

"For this command… is not too mysterious and remote for you. It is not up in the sky… Nor is it across the sea, No, it is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you...

For thus says the LORD: Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms... (Is...