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SAINTS&READING: MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2025

february 18_march 3

Beginning of the Great Lent. Great Lent. By Monastic Charter - Full abstention from food0

St LEO THE GREAT POPE OF ROME (461).

Saint Leo I the Great, Pope of Rome (440-461), received a fine and diverse education, which opened the possibility of an excellent worldly career for him. He yearned for the spiritual life, however, and so he chose to become an archdeacon under holy Pope Sixtus III (432-440), after whose death Saint Leo was selected as Bishop of Rome in September 440.

These were difficult times for the Church, when heretics assaulted Orthodoxy with their false teachings. Saint Leo combined pastoral solicitude and goodness with an unshakable firmness in the confession of the Faith. He was in particular one of the basic defenders of Orthodoxy against the heresies of Eutyches and Dioscorus, who taught that there was only one nature in the Lord Jesus Christ. He was also a defender against the heresy of Nestorius.

He exerted all his influence to put an end to the unrest by the heretics in the Church, and by his letters to the holy emperors Theodosius II (408-450) and Marcian (450-457), he actively promoted the convening of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, at Chalcedon in 451, to condemn the heresy of the Monophysites.

At the Council at Chalcedon, at which 630 bishops were present, a letter of Saint Leo to the deceased Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople (447-449) was read. Saint Flavian had suffered for Orthodoxy under the “Robber Council” of Ephesus in the year 449. In the letter of Saint Leo the Orthodox teaching about the two natures [the divine and the human] in the Lord Jesus Christ was set forth. All the bishops present at the Council were in agreement with this teaching, and so the heretics Eutyches and Dioscorus were excommunicated from the Church.

Saint Leo was also a defender of his country against the incursions of barbarians. In 452, by the persuasive power of his words, he stopped Attila the Hun from pillaging Italy. Again in the year 455, when the leader of the Vandals [a Germanic tribe], Henzerich, turned towards Rome, he persuaded him not to pillage the city, burn buildings, nor to spill blood.

He knew the time of his death beforehand, and he prepared himself, with forty days of fasting and prayer, to pass from this world into eternity.

He died in 461 and was buried in Rome. His literary and theological legacy includes 96 sermons and 143 letters, the best known of which is his Epistle to Saint Flavian.

Source: Orthodox Church in America

VENERABLE COSMAS MONK, OF YAKHROMSK (1492).

Saint Cosmas of Yakhrom was the servant of a certain Boyar, whom he comforted during his long illness by reading to him from books. And so, travelling from town to town, they stopped at the Yakhrom River. Exhausted by their long journey, they fell into a sound sleep. Suddenly, Cosmas was awakened by a vision of extraordinary light. In a tree, Cosmas saw an icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, and he heard a mysterious voice say: "Pay attention, Cosmas, and understand the words of life. Lead a God-pleasing life and seek the joy of the righteous, so that you may receive eternal blessings.”

The voice also commanded him to become a monk and to build a monastery.

Reverently, he took the Icon of the Mother of God and brought it to his sick master. As soon as it was placed on the old man, he was healed of his infirmity. When his term of servitude expired, Saint Cosmas went to the Kiev Caves Lavra. After giving the Icon to the brethren, he was tonsured in that Monastery. After he was tonsured, he astonished even experienced monks by his asceticism. The Saint contested there for many years, and then he had a vision of an Angel telling him to leave the Lavra and to take with him the Icon of the Mother of God which had appeared to him.

He asked the monks for the Icon, and left Kiev, arriving at the place where the wonderworking Icon had appeared to him. There, with the help of some pious donors, he built a temple dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God. He remained at the church, engaging in various monastic struggles which he had imposed on himself. Disciples began to gather around the Saint, a Monastery was established, and Saint Cosmas was chosen as its Igoumen. During this time, word of his ascetic struggles even reached the ears of the Great Prince.

Saint Cosmas reposed at an advanced age on February 18, 1492, and was buried in the Monastery which he founded. He is also commemorated on October 14, the Feast of the Yakhrom Icon of the Mother of God. (1)

1 Many sources indicate that it was an icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos which appeared to Saint Cosmas, but only a reputed copy of the Icon has been preserved, which depicts the Mother of God according to the "Tenderness" category of Russian icons.

Isaiah 1:1-20

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me; 3 The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.”

4 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward. 5 Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city. 9 Unless the Lord of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah

. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah: 11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts?

13 Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land; 20 But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword”; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Proverbs 1:1-20

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; 4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion— 5 A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, 9 For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11 If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; 13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14 Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse”— 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; 18 But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. 20 Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.

[annetteinsight]

"During tough times, remember: 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' - Jeremiah 29:11 🙏 .

[sheismo]

H.O.W

Humility. Obedience. Wisdom.

- Have humility & know that you NEED God. Come to God raw & vulnerable. Lean on him & his guidance. Fear the Lord.

- Be obedient to the Lord. Listen to God & be obedient to his word & the voice of the Holy Spirit.

- Once you become obedient you will be rewarded with wisdom & understanding. Wisdom comes from the Holy Spirit.

[pinkybeanie]

“Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.””

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭5‬-‭8‬ ‭RSV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/2020/jer.17.5-8.RSV

[o-que-deus-sonhou]

Ser inconstante é ser constante na coisa errada.

[dheudeghetlaust]

💛Book♥️of🩵LOVE💚 - "The book of love"

Originally written by Padre Pio - Here it is:

 Ready ?

Book of Love

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will learn what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

Originally written by Padre Pio, published with the help of Luigi Gaspari & abridged and revised by U.D.U. Dragomir.

April 1968 - Padre Pio tells Luigi. "The words in the book of love are written in/from heaven." They decide to include this excert from the bible on the opening pages afterwards.

"Then, I had seen an angel, powerful, commnig from heaven. The angel was wrapped in a cloud, in front of the angel a rainbow. The angels face was a sun and it's legs as if pillars of fire. The angel had a small book opened in it's hand. The angel had put it's right foot in the sea, and the left on the eart.

Then I heard the voice of heaven again. The voice spoke and said "go!, take the open book from the hand of the angel that stands on the sea and the land". 

I approached the angel, and requested to be given the little book. The angel replied to me "take the book and eat it; it will fill you belly with bitter but in your mouth you will taste the sweetness of honey".

I took this book from the hand of the angel and I ate it. In my mouth was the sweetness of honey, but as I swallowed it, I tasted the bitterness.

Then the angel said. "Still the prophecy must be fulfilled, to speak to nations, people, and kings."

Revelations, Chapter 10.

      Now for the book of love.

And so springtime blossoms, our very own spring. When we leave the winter behind, with all of it's dryness and ice. The winter that carrys with it our worries and shows us our delicacies.

We have healed, and shaked the winter off us. Now it is easy to foresee what we will occupy our time. It is a freedom free of the old worries.

Our friends that we have loved have betrayed us. We have left them free to leave, to passionalty chase after their own allusions.

Now time is ours, time for our own springtime.

Now either alone or with others, can joy for the fruits of happiness and happiness for reinvigorated energy be expressed.   

The longing for our old friend is gone. Better said those that have betrayed, are without us. Our love is alive because those that have betrayed us have returned. Love can be shared now, better than before, because now we are better prepped for it, than before.

We are wealthy in knowledge & pain. Our love is the kind that can be known and appreciated.

We continue journey freely, in the presence of our accumulated wealth. Peacefully we will rejoyce of the harvest we reap and calm we will observe what happens around us.

It is worrysum, the destruction of those who think they can oppose the greater good. It is the down-fall of those who chase after allusions.

Though, the evil with-in their hearts is unknown to us.

We see faces without light, that accuse to avoid being accused. We walk righteously on the path, and we will see further.

Above good & evil, there is a great crusade to partake in. It is a crusade for life, our own lives. A life which will be the center of strength, love and happiness for eternity. 

Gods power works with the will of the people.

This will provokes power.

But people judges each other.

Love means to forgive every person for every sin.

(To my dear friend Luigi, for your birthday, to show you my love and acknowledgement. To give you courage and strength to take my heart into the world). 

A note written by Padre Pio to Luigi before the next 'chapter'

                              Bologna, 8th-9th April. 1968

Tonight I need to talk, please listen. 

I want to share important ideas about our love to help make it easier to understand.

We are in the heart of all, and our love lives through the heart of others. We are endeared to live where we are welcomed.

Our love unites love.

Bonds are broken without us and any union is called love only with our presence and the heart of heaven.

Our love is free of evil and grief, it is pure, full of joy. Joy exists only in us. Love will lead us to know the uselessness of our greed and of our temptations. 

I want to help people understand that all we are looking for is inside of us. Why should we worry, why ?

Listen to love and you will find all that you need.

Much more generous than is believed are the gifts of love, and it gives much more than is asked of it.

What do we what from love ? Ask and we shall recieve. 

Ask what? A good truth ? We get it first hand.

A neccesary evil ? Love is forbidden to provide it.

Love can give us everything, if we can give all of our hearts with open arms to love. Never has the world had an open heart. On many occasions we have given a piece of our love, but greed, and our desires have kept us at bay.

We need to remember that everything exists because of our will. 

Many times we have hidden love, and held it for ourselves, and what has happened ?

We grow worried, tired, dissappointed, and sad. Always confused with no interest into why. The motive is our lack of love.

We, wait for a sign. A call to come out of where we have hidden. Love is here, if we call on it, and even more when we love. We need to help each other in keepin love by our side, because if we so desire, love  it can be everything for us.

For us to want this, it means to surrender ourselves, our ego, or sine, the me & the I, to love. When we surrender to love, we are permited to recieve everything.

It is tiring to see the world as it is. Without the holy love that can nurture life, without the love only we can have for each other.

What we usually desire, is often only our own ill-fates. Rarely, do we know this.

What is truely good ?

It is a sound mind in a sound body, for a peaceful soul and a warm feeling of life in our hearts

What does warmth do ? It warms us, and it lights our hearts. Warmth gives us a happyness for living, loving and bringin love and warmth (and joy) every-where.

For real? yes, we know this well. Many times we have even lived it.

But why have we lived that feeling for so little a short of time ? Because it was love in those moments the magic that warmed our hearts. Love has done everything for us to let us know it, and to let us be loved, and then ?

It was unknown how or it was undesired of us to sustain love.

We have been free to follow other paths, and then ?

Look at the result. A world empty and dry and with no love, but still, it exists. It exists because even the smallest unoccupied corner is enough for love to blossom. It lives and waits there. It waits until a day when many suffer, so that we share the pain amongst each other, all of it created by ourselves. Our suffering makes us aid each other. Do we really need a call to arms?

We hear a call for help, and we run to help. How ? If we call for help, we already have help there. If we stay quiet, there is another way. What way ? It is a person, exactly like all of us, just that this is a person of love, in this way we are helped by what is in this person (love). Forever has loved helped us through these people.

What do you want to do ? Love can give us everything.

Nothing is impossible because everything is possible for us. Love belongs to us all, and is our kingdom. Thus, what belongs to love belongs to us all, so, why are there worries ?

We have everything love has, we just need to want them. And what does love ask of us ? It asks us to have an open heart. 

Are we scared to open our hearts ? And to give back what ? It is a great ease to open our hearts. A kingdom of love is everything. 

What is everything ?

Everything means knowledge, knowledge of us, and knowledge of everything that is to see, touch and feel (and eat). What we can know is unfathomable to us. But through love the unfathomable becomes knowlesge to us.

Why should we love so much ? Because we have been created, and we create everything that makes us more happy, more greatful, and more full of love. 

Why should we ask to be loved ? With how much we grow in love so dus our happiness grow. This grows in us or joy. Love is infinite, and so love will always grow more love for ourselves. 

Growing love, we grow our knowledge. With how much more we love with that much better we know, but; only those that can love can know.

What belongs to love, and only to love can be obtianed only with permission. The blessings we recieve are only charge of will. We need only to show our will to love and the rest and everything will be done with love. Because love is all.

The heart of heaven is a massive lamp that illuminates all of eternity. It is the fire that burns in us. This fire makes us live. Life exists only with the warmth of heaven, and the cooling of our hearts (when) darkened they become is warmed from the heat of the heart of heaven.

Every single heart is responsible for keeping a particle of creation alive. When dry, darkened and tired any of these hearts become. This particle should disappear, because the heart arbitrates everything.

What does love do ? 

Through the heart of heaven we are warmed. The heart of heaven fills the void in our hearts. It sustains us, and sustains life through it's warmth.

Love is a reserovoir of energy, that intervines and stops disasters occuring from the mishandeling of the energy given to us by love. It is a back-up heart for us all.

What stops us from loving each other ? What keeps us from acknowledging each other ? Why do we want to control each other ?

It is an inconsistent mind, a constant storm in our brains, driven by turbulent (in the sense that they all flow from one to the next) waves of external thoughts. 

The inconsistent mind, cools the heart and rejects love.

How ca we control the mind ? How do we hold it together ? Try to leave in silence all thoughts that belong to anything else but love and goodness. You have to conquer instability by listening to the laws of love. 

To love is to give:

To those whom love is unknown.

To those whom ask for love.

To those whom need to recieve love.

To those whom recieve love as a gift.

To those whom will love what love is.

To those whom know of the power of love

To those whom think they are un-worthy to recieve love after they have been unfaithful.

When a person asks for a little love, give them love without asking whom they are. That love will bind them and with the love given. 

The people whom are sent to us and ask for goodness and love, never send them to abaddon, for they are a part of us. They will be with us through the love that always gives.

We want to unite, to always be constantly bonded within our hearts. We are everything and everyone.

The loss of one of us leads to our reduction. We are bound together by binds that are imposible to see. Binds that lead to the heart of heaven.

Love is one. We are the scattered remnants of the infinite joy in heavens. 

Be united and let nothing stray you.

We must be concerned for the divisions amongst us, the discrimination between majorities and minorities, races, nations (people) and species (oh wait, we haven't evolved that much yet). 

Those that want to love will stand-fast. They will have be united, if we keep segragating it will be impossible to unite.

We must be gentle and kind to each other, helping and leading one another, but never casting away.

When temptation asks us to send away someone. Love immidietly intervenes. Loves intervenes with all of its energy to prevent it. 

That is the will of love; that we all take one small step towards each other and than love will free the power with-in each of our hearts.

When we are far from each other, remember the memory of each other and in this way love will live in thy hearts.

Love will always be among us, and will help us unite. It will help us over-come our fears, and it will help those whom wish to segragate themselves from us. Love that can love someone who wants to seperate from us can defeat any obstacle.

Longing for love is the will of love at work. Love is much more powerful than any resistence. And we should desire to unite and to love any-one who trys to evade the bounds of love. Love knows how to turn any lost soul back. It is impossible to evade and here is why.

Love defends our rights for those whom have been loved and run from us. To run from us is to run from love. Do ask for help when you feel burdened. Love will immiedietly intervene in our favor, our unity is our will.

              Bologna, 9th April 1968

"Today I am 24 years old; it is the middle of the night and I still feel close to everyones heart, and of Gods heart. It is God who has blessed me with 'happy birthday' and wants to keep me company.

I am a bit confused. It is hard to say why. I listen quietly to the beats of my heart, that is now so full of love for me. Am I worthy of this much ? I am certian it is to much.

God of course looks at me and conveys to me, and keeps m company, and so I feel good, satisfied. Tonight I feel as if the whole universe is with-in me.

What is this heart that beats in me ?

It is love and God that knows my needs, and my desire to have God close to me. In this night I could be sad, and certainly alone with my thoughts. Everything changed because I hear a voice telling me to be calm. This voice tells with goodness that tomorrow will be a good day.

Today is a new day, but it seems that everything has gone back in time. A past I have forgotten even exists, even in the heart of heaven. My childhood, my teenage years, and my maturaty are all here and I can relive every moment instantly. The only thing I lost is the memory of anything I may have done wrong, and a few unfaithful moments to God.

Buy why is it so imposible for me to remember my sins ? Maybe this is gift from God, a blessing to let me forget the bad things that I have done. 

Certainly these words in my head about the heart of heaven are a calling to be brave, faithfull and convinced that everything will be set right."

What does love ask from us ?

It asks for nothing. It tells us to love as much as we can, and then our love lets us feel more and more.

Love will lead us to see and recognize not holy places but heartful places (another word lost in translation) and in those places we will have vision (we will see).

What do we give to those we love ?

We give them authetic friendship and all of our trust and love.

Love is our friend, the friend we have always searched for. It is a friendship that makes the friends of love to be our friends too, all whom wish to be honest, loving friends.

We should also remember those whom are anything but a friend, of course with love we certainly can become friends with anyone we desire.

Now love holds us, and love guides our every step and forbids us from running from the truth.

There are many diseases in the world but only one disease that witholds our understanding of the power of love. 

It is an eternal ocean of blessings, happiness and wealth of which very few know of and no-one desires to benefit from. 

The remedy is there, in the unlimited ocean where we can take everything and yet we take and have taken nothing until now.

What is good we have learned naturally, by Gods grace. Now we must learn to recieve and to request. The supply is endless and the blessings are infinite, and at everyones disposal ready for those that know how to ask and whom so desire.

To recieve we must turn to God; only one ray comming to the heart of heaven will bind us to the eternal supply for the joy of everyone. That ray is love.

Morning, 9th April same year.

At times love can make the heart a prizoner. It is important to be free of this penitenciary and to listen to your heart first. Your heart will speak and tell you what is good for yourself.

The love we have given and the love we have been given is always in our hearts. Our acts of love, all remaine and relive in our hearts. Listen to its voice. 

Here we can find again all that we have loved and all that we will love.

Who loves, is loved. Those that love will truly know themselves. Love lets us bee seen. If someone cries, we cry, and our happiness is my happiness.

Pain from the knowledge of our mistakes is what provokes love to push on. Love gives us the comfort to ask for fogiveness (and to forgive) and, when we do desire, to try again.

 

Love is the salvation for all those that return and will return: the love that binds us is so great that in every day and every moment there is something new to see because we still have more to learn.

Our lives must flow the way they do, just like the lives of others.

Love forbids anyone to judge. The time for clean powerful words has come. We must become infuential through authority, to be better known.

Love will make its order known through the authority of those whom love. Love will make words breath inspiration and to lead.

That is what love asks of us, that is what love desires of us all, especially those whom serve love. 

Love how-ever refuses to serve those that ask to be served, and pretend to serve mercy, love and kindness. When these people only want us to help them because they know what power love has. They know everything is in our hands and bow as proof to the acknowledgment of the omnipotence of love. But that is another path, one that is not made of love.

Love prefers people whom stand tall when in the presence of grace/peace. Those that pray for power are people less responsible.

Those that bow and pray, begging and praising, at times are completely void of love. Better said they want the world to beckon to their every whim and egocentrical desires.

To us, those that love, what happens ?

 We are forbid to say no, and others come to us to obtain through us what is forbidden for them to pray for (either because it is unfair, unholly, or just beneath their merit). Furthermore we are saddnedded when they return to us with what only appears to be love.

This happens so that they will bound themselves to us. All that has been obtained through prayers and worship, all that has been taken through lies and deciet still belongs to us all.

Love defends the order of all and everything, and forbids any intelligence to pass judgment. Love condemns any form of demeaning because love is mercy and respect.

Love does for us more than we can see or believe, with love all of our sins will be forgiven.

We can be well and un-injured from the sinful desires that we have made in the world. We have been put into this world and in direct contact with its allusions to consolidate them.

We know how to change thoughts from good ones to bad ones (and the other way around). Our experiences are knowledge. Knowledge into how to defeath evil from our lives. 

I want us to be without fear, fear is a sign of weakness and a lack of knowledge. Loves resilience is more powerful than any human promise and eliminates any transgression.

Just maintain love in your hearts, know that love will eliminate our weaknessess and love is our greatest strength.

Remember to never judge each other. Remember that love will help allevieate pain and sadness. Love is goodness

Love that is given brings mercy to the world. A great love will make us sweeter to each other. The benefits of love will attenuate any path.

Be extremely strict when offering love, because it will bind us. This uninion means that we have to let everything be done fore love. 

When we have to right a wrong or to offer recompension let love freely take action. Often times love is blocked by our own actions. Our own intelligence can succumb from out-side influences, and from various beliefs. Love can see through the suggestions and see those whom make them and why, so just let love do everything.

Love does need permission. It respects our desires and mistakes. Love lets us live our lives in what ever way we wish: there are many paths. If we desire, love will show us an easier journey through life one free of risks, or it can lead us on a more beautiful journey through life. Love can be a great guide for our footfalls through life, but it does not have any concern for social posturing.

Love will prevent us from unforseem damgers. It can protect us from traps.

At times we already have all the blessing we seek, without ever seeing just how close they are; that is were love intervenes to help us open our eyes.

We mistakenly miss the opportunity to take what is ours, because other souls, or spirits hide or steal them. Ask thy heart what belongs and love will prevent others from stepping on your blessings.

Love needs us to be very clear, when love accords our wishes it has to listen to our words.

The words are engraved on our hearts, exactly as we speak them. It is important to meditate and think deep before having any desires. Try to determine everything desired free of any uncertainty, or fear that it may be something bad, its better to seek advice instead in those instances.

Our hearts will illuminae what is the most urgent for us to wish for, for the benefit of everyone.

Love lets us hear things simply and clearly. 

Love can make us understand everything in a day, in a blitz, everything that we've wanted to know our whole lives. Knowledge of ourselves is possible only through love (for ourselves). 

Love knows where we are from, where we are going and what we live for, because life is energy commisioned by our hearts to make us who we are.

This energy makes flesh that gives a face to a soul. A soul that exists before it was wrapped in meat. Our souls are just like Adams and Lilithes, and it gets to different people through different ways. The spirit transported by the mind, led by the heart. But the love in our hearts is the constant presence of God in us all.

If love can make a good heart, then the mind can drive the heart to excessive passion that can tarnish a soul. Thoughts implicate the mind to desires that kill the spirit of love in us. Without the spirit of love we are but victims and prey of our carnal passions. 

These carnal passions help to divide and seperate us. They turn us against our brothers and sisters. But our hearts can save us, because it is a magnet that has been put in us. Use that magnet to find love.

Love is more powerful than any passion. Love is the light that illuminates the mind. The mind illuminated by love brings the holy spirit to drive intelligence and manifestations of peace and joy.

Everything for a peaceful harmony between mind and heart.

Rome, 11 April - Holy Thursday

The mind can be influenced, but the heart can only be conquered: a well conquered heart is the stronghold that breathes desires and commands the mind. Violence can never win the hearts of the people. 

Kindness, goodwill, sacrifice, perserverence, and devotion are what wins/conquers a heart.

Pure violence consists of an never ceasing desire to enter into that heart. That death on the cross has opened us a path, and it has left us a key to open the path when it is closed.

It was given to us on a cross of wood in a moment of agony. The hope we had been given then is that one day we will return our world to a peaceful one. With no more wars, is based on the choices made then.

Out of the people whom have saved the world from ruin, among them were the diciplies of Jesus as well. The few remaining today live their lives to help others. They bring the mercy and forgiveness of our God much more effiecently. Choosen people continuely recieve a blessing to balance and to keep them steady against the chaos created by the dominion of ambigition and passions.

We have to acknowledge the source, the origin of our love. 

It is pointless to ask why we do not understand. We could understand everything if we stop asking. The best solution for everything is to be calm and patient. There is light in all of us. 

We will be enlightened when we are humble about what we know and what we have. When we stop bragging about what we know, what we have, and what we know. We all need to express only greatfulness/gratitude thankfulness and love. In those moments we can know, have, and see much more than we bragged about. 

Our acknowledgment gives us the right at a love that permits us everything.

When goodness remains with a person that is free of the desire to find love or truth, or to know love. That person is an instrument used by love to unite us.

More so, the absence of love becomes a search, it makes us concerned that we lost it, or that we have lost interest, or love, or the will to never achieve our plans in life. 

What is thought, stays, what is said, has been said, what is planned is ordered. Negligence is something that does not exist for us.

Love wants to prevent us from confusion or from adopting ideas that detach us from the peace and the enthusiasm we need to seek out and share the truth.

Be like a mirror of the truth. The truth a person wants to create is just their will to bring others to their decietful narritives. Any person that seeks a truth to impose on another person is a person that is only imposing themselves.

The power of the truth is the patients to watch the fall and death of what cannot live without the light of the truth.

Those that know of the lies of the world will fight with all of your spirits against these lies, and when the damage done by these lies becomes apparent. Loves intervention will destroy the false beliefs imposed by people with the desire for revenge or the desire to dominate.

When we accept a truth through suggestion, or force, or fear, concern, it means to stay away from love for the truth. We are led to all sorts of fabricated narritives and slowly can build ourselves a world of lies. From the biggest to the smallest lies. The lies that oppress our progress and those that provoke us to war. 

Lots of good people do nothing, this is because their goodness prevents them from doing harm to anyone. Than to live a quiet life, they avoid standing against evil. The empire of evil will strike all, good people who do nothing only help bring more disorder and more lies.

Only those that refuse, those that fight, for themselves and for others, they need the most help.

Those that compromise, and toil with the lies of the world are void of love. We should forbid people to live in lies.

Do help those that pray for a signle cause; truth for justice, and love.

Prays with no point (pointless prayers) do not exist.

In prayers we meet. In a conversation that is a gift to our hearts. Our words spoken as whispers that create; they create a world. A world full of the love we wish to give. The spirit of love will create what our words ask for. Ones thoughts will become our thoughts and will show us everything we desire and think. The light from our eyes will reflect in the eyes of the world.

The creative words will immediately bring light to a person. The word addressed to the holy ghost is the spirit of love from the heart of a person to the creator.

It is the word that becomes prayer, acknowledgment and the gift/blessing of love. With the word and the gift/blessing of love a person can create everything that is good. When we offer everything. Then we can create everything we desire, with the love we express with words.

Thoughts that are addressed in silence are part of a very intimate conversation between us. Thoughts that would keep us at a distance are impossible to keep us away from each other. Love is always present, even if we believe or desire it to be absent. Love is present but invisible to heavy hearts that are devoted to conquering creatures or other things of a possessive nature, or hearts that hunger for power.

Through creation we have placed before us the dispostional order to find our creator. To find the creator in us. 

                          Light & Darkness

None have bine high in heaven except for those that have stepped down (from their posts in heaven). Our children.

Those that are in heaven. And how moses raised the snakes in the wilderness, so must our children be rasied. And so all that know of God will be freed, but those that believe they are already condemned, for them it has been refused the name of the only son created by God. And how with this motive condamnation:

Let their be light on Terra, but people preferred to stay in the dark.

                          San Giovanni Rotondo, 14 April 1968

                                Holy Easter of Revival

The creator is present in everything that is created. Today I have been revived to bring our life to God. I have offered to sacrifice for every one of you, and God has accepted my offer to free us from death. My blessings can be found, and I will always show my presence to the world, in all of creation and in everyones return to the love for God.

From my heart, blood has flowed, and it has stopped living, to give my life to you. My life and my heart has brought a new uninion between us and God. My blood has become one with your blood. In the name of my blood, God has brought back love in your blood and your lives. Gods love for me has become Gods love for you. Everything create has brought us back and so we can have everything. Because in creation, there lay the love from the creator. 

The desire to free what you love, for those whom possess it, is the only way to obtain everything. That is the law of our hearts. That is the law of love. To love what you have.

I have died on a cross for you. I had suffered instead of you. I ask that you love me for the love I have given you. I have been revived so as to let you stand besides me. I have returned to the kingdom of heaven to prepare the best chairs for you. I have taken my place to permit you to take yours.

My return to the world has already happened, it is a return where I ask to keep me in your hearts. My body. My blood, are all their waiting to be given. I cannot wait to be called to help, and so I still send people out into the world who can talk about me, and whom love to unite people. A person whom teaches and recites everytime you need me.

                   

                          San Giovanii Rotondo 15 April 1968

Naturally it is impossible to live without light. Without warmth and love. That which is life. Life can not rezist the fear of the abyse. There is no peace in us without light, that which gives us knowledge and love, and unites us.

Psalm 98/97

Sing to God a new psalm. For God has done great things! Gods right hand and Gods holy hand have brought us Victory. God has made known the salvation of our nation.

God has remembered to love and cherish the house of Isreal.

All the tents on Terra have seen the victory of our God.

Make a sound of joy and sing a psalm of praise.

Sing praise for God with a lyre, with a lrye and the sound of a melody. With a trumpet and the sound of a horn make a joyful sound for the creator!

Let the sea scream, with everything with-in it; Terra and all those that exist on her!

Let the floods stop their waters; Let the hills sings their joy together with God. For God comes to judge Terra. And God will judge Terra with righteousness and people with equality.

Saint Teresa de la Avila

"I have herd the words. I realized the truth; 'What I do for you is not a little, certainly this is one of the ways you will be debt to me. All the evil of the world is because of the mis-understanding of the truth in the holy scripturs. All that is written in them will happen one day'

I have always believed this, that all the rest have only added on"

"And so daughter, how few are there that truely love me? If they truly love me, why would I hide from them things ? Do you know what true love means to me ?

It is to convince yourself that everything that does not satisfy me is a lie. You will understand with clarity everything you doughnut understand now with the benefits that will be given to your soulz."

"Though Jeses revived from the dead, the first fruit put to sleep. And from the death of a person, the revival of the death came from a person. And just like Adam every person dies. And through Jesus everyone will be brought to life. But each one in their order. Jesus was the first fruit, then all those that belong. Then comes the end, when the kingdom will be given back to God. After we have destroyed all the kingdoms, and authorities, and powers. 

For God needs to be, until all are under Gods slipper. And the last under Gods slipper is death"

             Corinthians 15, 20-28

"But everything is subjective, and clarity of this does not involve the creator of everything. For God everything is relative. And than when everything is, the son will come and belong to God just like everything else. For God to be in everything in everything".

   

I Samuel 15, 22-26

"And Samuel said 'What pleases Yahweh ? A holocaust and a sacrifice or to listen to the voice of Yahweh ? Yes it is better to listen than to sacrifice. To listen to footfalls is better than to eat the fat of the lamb. 

For a sin such as divinity is rebellion, and stubborness is a crime of idoltry. 

Because you have refused the commandment of God, God has refused you as a king

Saul responded to Samuel: I fell into sin because I did not adhere to the commandment of God and your words. In my fear of people. I did what the people asked of me. Now please forgive my sins and return me to my prayers and to God.

But Samuel told Saul: Nu, you will not return because you have rejected the word of God, God has rejected you"

                 Psalm 71/70

"You have done good things:

Who, God, is comparabil with you ?

You have sent me sadness and difficulties.

But you have given me life again.

You will raise me again from deep in the soil.

And again you will caress me."

            Chronicles 1.17 16-27

"King David entered and in front of Yahweh, he said ' Who am I Yahweh God, and what is my home that you have brought me this far ? But in your eyes, God, it will never be to far to promise me that you will extend the home of your servant to a distant future. You show me as if I am a line of men, and this is, Yahweh, God, what you promised. Yes Yahweh, you are God, independent is You have made such a promise to your servant. Be happy with the blessing of your servants home, to always be in your presence. For you Yahweh have blessed, and will always remain blessed."

            Psalm 105

"Do not touch those annointed by me, and do not harm my profits! Than he brought famine to the country, and broke the rod that was their bread"

John 3:15

"that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"

"PRAYER REQUESTS - HOW CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?"

   

 

 

 

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                                so glad I waited for technology to catch up

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Verse Mapping Journal: A 53-Week Workbook to Navigate the Sacred Texts

Verse Mapping Journal A 53-Week Workbook to Navigate the Sacred Texts This 53-week journal is designed to deepen your connection with the timeless wisdom of scripture. This is a guided sanctuary for your personal reflections and revelations.

Uncover the beauty of each verse as you delve into the art of verse mapping. With thoughtfully crafted pages, this journal provide space for you to record your chosen verses, explore cross-references, and capture the nuances of historical and cultural contexts. It goes beyond the ordinary, encouraging you to engage with the Word in a meaningful and personalized way.

Key Features:

Guided Mapping Pages: Navigate your verse mapping journey effortlessly with pages designed to prompt observations, reflections, and applications of each chosen verse.

Word Illumination Pages: Unearth the richness of scripture by documenting and delving into new words encountered during your verse mapping. Expand your vocabulary and understanding.

Creative Expression Spaces: Infuse your spiritual journey with creativity. Express your thoughts through drawings, doodles, or any form of artistic expression that enhances your connection with the Word.

Specifications:

Beautiful Palm cover significant for your spiritual journey and relevancy; Matte cover

8.5 x 11 size: A spacious journal for documenting thoughts and creativity

120 pages which includes one whole year of weekly verse mapping, tips for an effective journaling, and more features!

Standard coloured designed pages with white paper

Be it be for you or for the one who need it the most, this is a valuable resource for an unending search and understanding of the Word.

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SAINTS&READING: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025

february 8 _february 21

Week of the prodigal son.

PROPHET ZACHARIAH FROM AMONG THE 12 MINOR PROPHETS (520 BC).

The Prophet Zachariah the Sickle-Seer the eleventh of the twelve Minor Prophets. He was descended from the tribe of Levi, and seems to have been a priest (Nehemiah 12:4,16). He was called to prophetic service at a young age and became, in the wondrous expression of church hymnology, “a spectator of supra-worldly visions.”

The Book of the Prophet Zachariah contains inspired details about the coming of the Messiah (Zach 6:12); about the last days of the Savior’s earthly life, about the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem on a young donkey (Zach 9:9); about the betrayal of the Lord for thirty pieces of silver and the purchase of the potter’s field with them (Zach 11:12-13); about the piercing of the Savior’s side (Zach 12:10); about the scattering of the apostles from the Garden of Gethsemane (Zach 13:7); about the eclipse of the sun at the time of the Crucifixion (Zach 14:6-7).

“Enlightened by dawnings all above,” the Prophet Zachariah, “saw the future as it were the present.” According to Tradition, this “most true God-proclaimer” lived to old age and was buried near Jerusalem, beside his illustrious contemporary and companion, the Prophet Haggai (December 16). The title “Sickle-Seer” given Zachariah comes from a vision in which he saw a sickle flying in the air, destroying thieves and perjurors (Zach 5:1-3).

The holy Prophet Zachariah died around 520 B.C. His tomb was discovered in 415 in a village near Eleutheropolis (Sozomen, Hist. Eccles. VI:32, IX:17). At the prophet’s feet was the body of a child dressed in royal accouterments. His holy relics were transferred to the church of Saint James the Brother of the Lord (October 23) in Constantinople.

St. LYUBOV OF RYAZA, FOOL-FOR-CHRIST (1921)

Liuba Semyonova Sukhanovskaya was born in 1860 the Ryazan region, in the city of Pronsk, into the family of Semyon and Maria Sukhanovsky, humble and God-fearing people. Later, her younger sister Olga was born.

In 1874, the Sukhanovskys moved to Ryazan and settled in a house on the corner of Vladimir and Resurrection Streets, becoming parishioners of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem church. The Lord took special notice of this pious family. The Sukhanovskys lived in poverty and also had a heavy sorrow. Their beloved daughter Liubushka was paralyzed for fifteen years and could neither walk nor stand on her own two feet. Her parents taught her to pray and how to read, however. Liuba prayed and read spiritual books, drawing on these for comfort. In particular, she loved to pray before the family icon of Saint Nicholas. Her pure prayer and her uncomplaining patience in her illness were accepted by the Lord, Who revealed His will for Liubushka. One day, when she was alone in the house, the God-pleaser Saint Nicholas appeared before her and said, "Get up, Liuba, go and play the fool!"

Liubushka stood up, which was a great joy for her mother when she returned home. But then her mother realized that the feat of foolishness was challenging, and she went to the priest for advice. He listened to her and said, "This is God's will! Do not detain your daughter, let her go, let her play the fool! The Lord rightly orders a man's steps (Psalm 36/37:23). From that time, Liubushka embarked on that arduous path.

The residents of Ryazan know her as an ascetic who enclosed herself in a wall between the stove and a wall in her house. She stood there for three years, like an ancient stylite, immersed in prayer and in the knowledge of God. Her humility before God's Providence, her patience and heavenly grace helped her to accomplish this unprecedented feat. The Lord prepared her for her contest by her fifteen years of paralysis, just as He did for Saint Elias of Murom (December 19). Three years later, Blessed Liubov, strengthened from above by divine love, left her "torture-chamber" and went out among the people, bearing this love.

Now living in Ryazan away from her relatives, she became a constant intercessor in all the city churches, and above all other monasteries, she loved visiting the Kazan Monastery, where she lived for a long time with some sisters, especially with the Superior, Igoumeness Katherine, who consoled with her sublime discourses. Liubushka was often seen on the street, in the shops of merchants, or in the homes of friends. And her conversations always had some spiritual purpose. The Blessed one prayed for people, giving them good and wise advice, and warning them of dangers. Everyone waited for her impatiently, for honorable people understood that the Lord Himself spoke through Liubushka, and had granted her both clairvoyance and the gift of love.

As with all fools for Christ, her actions were not quite ordinary. For example, the Blessed one would go into the shop of a wealthy merchant and take whatever she needed without asking. The merchant was only too happy about this, for he knew that he would do good business that day. Another time, Liubushka would pass by the shop without stopping, even if she were invited. When she was tired, the Blessed one would sit on someone's porch and be given food. She would accept it from some, but to others she said: "You don't have very much." If she did accept food, she gave it to the needy she met along the way. Poor people and beggars loved her very much.

Being clairvoyant, the Blessed one addressed even strangers by name, and would reply to unspoken questions. More often than not, Liubushka clothed her clairvoyance in a mysterious form, revealing things by means of paper figures. Knowing where her hostess kept scissors and paper, she took them, cut the figures out, and gave them to those for whom they were intended. If someone was about to travel, she would make a horse or a train. If a person was to be married, she would fashion a crown. If someone was about to die, she would cut out a tombstone. Some people feared her predictions and hid the scissors, but the Blessed one just tore the paper with her fingers and still gave the appropriate figures to those for whom they were meant. She made these figures with great skill, and silently she handed them to that person and then left. All of her predictions came true.

Some people, however, did not believe Liubushka, and laughed at her. She endured everything very complacently and patiently, and the smile never left her face. She dressed in very plain clothes, and on her head she wore a kerchief - sometimes blue, or pink. As a child, Liubushka loved the color pink, and she even asked that her coffin be lined with pink cloth when she died.

The Blessed one made predictions not only with paper figures, but also by other means. For example, they mention the following incident. During the Nativity Fast, Liubushka visited the Sh. family, where their grandmother was pouring tea for everyone at 4:00 P.M. At that time, Liubushka came in with a piece of velvet and said: "I was walking past the funeral parlor, where a coffin was being lined, and I took a piece of velvet. Here, take it!" The grandmother was perplexed, but soon they received news that their relative had died, and the velvet was for her coffin. This is how the Blessed one prepared everyone for the sad event.

On another occasion, Blessed Liubushka foretold the fate of two little girls through the icons that she gave them. One received an icon of Saint Alexander Nevsky, and later she married a man named Alexander, and they lived by the Alexander Nevsky train station. The other girl was given an icon of Saint Anna of Kashin, and like that Saint, she too was left as a widow with two children.

The Blessed one foresaw many things at her beloved Kazan Monastery. Once she cut out an entire monastery with scissors. The paper monastery had a fence, a church, and a choir. So, in this way, she answered a question posed by the sister of a particular novice, who wondered whether she should be a nun. When the time came, this girl entered the Monastery, and as one who possessed a rare voice (a female bass), she was placed in the choir to chant and read. After the Monastery was closed, she sang in the church until she was pretty old.

The Blessed one returned to her home. At that time, her grandfather was still alive. One day, she arrived when her grandfather's kum1 was in the house, and he decided to joke with her and ask, "Tell us, Liubov Semyonovna, to whom will your house go when you die?" She smiled and replied, "To the soldiers." Everyone laughed at such an unexpected answer. No one could imagine that one day, the house would be demolished, and in its place, a military warehouse would be built to store equipment. Liuba's sister did not take her seriously either, and only after her death did she realize her mistake, seeing how many people came to accompany Blessed Liuba on her final journey, calling her the holy intercessor of Ryazan.

Before the abdication of the Tsar in 1917, the Blessed one walked through the streets and repeated: "The walls of Jericho are falling, the walls of Jericho are falling." Only later did people realize what that meant.

Three weeks before her death, Liubuska warned her good friend Elizabeth M. about it: "Lizon'ka, I am going to die soon, and you must pray to God for me. Go to my grave and take dirt from it, and line my coffin with pink cloth."

Blessed Liubov reposed on February 8, 1921. Everything was in ruins, the stores were empty, and Elizabeth decided to go to the pharmacy for some gauze at least. And O, the wonder! She was given some pink cloth. The coffin was beautifully decorated, and even ruffles and bows were made. So, to everyone's joy, Liubushka's wish was miraculously fulfilled. When the Blessed one was carried on her final journey, the streets around the funeral procession resembled a living wall of weeping people. Everyone abandoned their businesses in order to bid farewell to the marvelous God-pleaser. Later, over Blessed Liubov's grave, a monument was put up by the efforts of a resident of Ryazan, a Deacon, and others who admired her.

As the years passed, God was gradually displaced from the life and consciousness of formerly devout people who forgot their covenants and their own ancestors. Churches were being closed and destroyed, and priests were tortured and killed. Soon, there was only one functioning church in Ryazan - dedicated to the "Joy of All Who Sorrow" Icon of the Mother of God. And there was a cemetery. However, few people visited the cemetery, and Liubushka's grave became overgrown.

One day a certain soldier appeared at the cemetery and began to ask where Blessed Liubushka was buried. He wanted to put up a cross and a metal fence around her grave. This soldier happened to be very sick, but the doctors could not help him. Saint Liubov appeared to him in a dream and said: "Do not grieve or worry, but go to Ryazan, find the grave of Liubov Semyonovna Sukhanovskaya in the cemetery, and enclose it with a fence, and then you shall be healthy and happy."

He did as the Blessed one commanded him to do, and he was healed. He visited her grave every year and had a Panikhida served for her. Thus Saint Liubov came forth once more to the people who had forgotten her, in order to demonstrate that "love never fails" (I Corinthians 13:8).

Many other miracles were performed, and are still being performed, by prayers offered to Blessed Liubov of Ryazan. In 1992, by the diligence of the brethren of Saint John the Theologian Monastery, a chapel was built over her grave, and on June 10/23, 1998, Blessed Liubov was numbered with the Saints of Ryazan (June 23) and her holy relics were transferred to the Saint Nicholas-Yamsk church in Ryazan.

1 Kum = A godparent, or those who hold the crowns at an Orthodox wedding (from the Greek word κουμπάρος).

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

2 John 1:1-13

1 The Elder, To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth, 2 because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father. 5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. 6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. 9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. 12 Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. 13 The children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.

Mark 15:22-25, 33-41

22 And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. 23 Then they gave Him wine mingled with myrrh to drink, but He did not take it. 24 And when they crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots for them to determine what every man should take. 25 Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him. 33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" 35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard that, said, "Look, He is calling for Elijah!" 36 Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink, saying, "Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to take Him down." 37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. 38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, "Truly this Man was the Son of God!" 40 There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome, 41 who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in Galilee, and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

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Vital Directives For God's Child

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The love of God is greater far

Than tongue or pen can ever tell.

It goes beyond the highest star

And reaches to the lowest hell.

The guilty pair, bowed down with care,

God gave His Son to win;

His erring child He reconciled

And pardoned from his sin.

O love of God, how rich and pure!

How measureless and strong!

It shall forevermore endure—

The saints’ and angels’ song.

2

When hoary time shall pass away,

And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall;

When men who here refuse to pray,

On rocks and hills and mountains call;

God’s love, so sure, shall still endure,

All measureless and strong;

Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—

The saints’ and angels’ song.

3

Could we with ink the ocean fill,

And were the skies of parchment made;

Were every stalk on earth a quill,

And every man a scribe by trade;

To write the love of God above

Would drain the ocean dry;

Nor could the scroll contain the whole,

Though stretched from sky to sky.

Words & Music © 1923, Ren. 1951 by Hope Publishing Co., Carol Stream, IL 60188.

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Verse Mapping Journal: A 53-Week Workbook to Navigate the Sacred Texts

Verse Mapping Journal A 53-Week Workbook to Navigate the Sacred Texts

This 53-week journal is designed to deepen your connection with the timeless wisdom of scripture. This is a guided sanctuary for your personal reflections and revelations.

Uncover the beauty of each verse as you delve into the art of verse mapping. With thoughtfully crafted pages, this journal provide space for you to record your chosen verses, explore cross-references, and capture the nuances of historical and cultural contexts. It goes beyond the ordinary, encouraging you to engage with the Word in a meaningful and personalized way.

Key Features:

Guided Mapping Pages: Navigate your verse mapping journey effortlessly with pages designed to prompt observations, reflections, and applications of each chosen verse.

Word Illumination Pages: Unearth the richness of scripture by documenting and delving into new words encountered during your verse mapping. Expand your vocabulary and understanding.

Creative Expression Spaces: Infuse your spiritual journey with creativity. Express your thoughts through drawings, doodles, or any form of artistic expression that enhances your connection with the Word.

Specifications:

Beautiful Palm cover significant for your spiritual journey and relevancy; Matte cover

8.5 x 11 size: A spacious journal for documenting thoughts and creativity

120 pages which includes one whole year of weekly verse mapping, tips for an effective journaling, and more features!

Standard coloured designed pages with white paper

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