Saturday 15 July 2023 Saint Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 49:29-33,50:15-26 Jacob gave his sons these instructions, ‘I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me near my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the...
Articles for July 2023
The Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you
Friday 14 July 2023 Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 46:1-7,28-30 Israel left Canaan with his possessions and reached Beersheba. There he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, ‘Jacob, Jacob’, he said. ‘I am here’, he replied....
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Thursday 13 July 2023 Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 44:18-21,23-29,45:1-5 Judah went up to Joseph and said, ‘May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My lord questioned...
The Walled Garden
Wednesday 12 July 2023 Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 41:55-57,42:5-7,17-24 When the whole country of Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. But Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, ‘Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.’ There was famine all...
To Wrestle or to Go With? That is the Question.
Tuesday 11 July 2023 Saint Benedict, Abbot Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 32:23-33 Jacob rose, and taking his two wives and his two slave-girls and his eleven children he crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream and sent all his...
Without Merit
Monday 10 July 2023 Week 14 in Ordinary Time Genesis 28:10-22 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. When he had reached a certain place he passed the night there, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones to be found at that place, he made...