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Advent in apocalyptic times – Part II: Darkness covers the earth

NOTE: As of yesterday, we have begun in the daily meditations a series entitled “Advent in Apocalyptic Times”. If anyone would prefer to listen to a meditation on the reading or the gospel of the day (Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception), you can find it at the following link: https://en.elijamission.net/2021/12/08/ “Night still covers the earth […]

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A joy to the angels

Eph 3:8-12 Reading from the Memorial of Saint Ambrose To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in[a] God who created

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Trust in the Lord

Isa 26:1-6 ”That day, this song will be sung in Judah: ‘We have a fortress city, the walls and ramparts provide safety. Open the gates! Let the upright nation come in, the nation that keeps faith! This is the plan decreed: you will guarantee peace, the peace entrusted to you. Trust in Yahweh for ever,

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The Eyes of Faith

Is 25:6-10a On this mountain, for all peoples, the Lord Sabaoth is preparing a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of succulent food, of well-strained wines. On this mountain, he has destroyed the veil which used to veil all peoples, the mantle enveloping all nations; he has destroyed death for ever. The

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The Received Mission

1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23 Reading corresponding to the memorial of St Francis Xavier ”In fact, preaching the gospel gives me nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion and I should be in trouble if I failed to do it. If I did it on my own initiative I would deserve a reward; but if

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Come, Lord Jesus, Maranatha

Rev 22:1-7 Then the angel showed me the river of life, rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal-clear. Down the middle of the city street, on either bank of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month,

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