Day 37: Living
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. – Jesus (Matthew 22:32)
Day 36: Freedom
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor;He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” … Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. – Jesus (Luke 4:17-21)
Day 35: Basics
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. – Jesus (Matthew 22)
Day 34: Alone
Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. – Jesus (Mark 14)
In our lifetime, we take actions that are in line with our principles and our understanding of the world. We refer to the “voice within” as our conscience and we respond in a manner for which we must be responsible. How others perceive our actions don’t seem to matter when we are truly committed to our ideals and dreams, causing us to often land in a lonely place. Jesus gives the criterion, “service for me” as a celebration for your loneliness.
Day 33: Outward Appearance
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. – Jesus (Matthew 23)
Our outward appearance is important, in deed. It sets the stage for our work, our social activities, our friendships and relationships. Jesus reminds us that equally as important, and perhaps even more, is the appearance of our soul. Imagine how much more intense, genuine and engaging would be our work, social activities, friendships and relationships, if we toned our inner soul.
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Next Step #667: Setting a new pillar of Armodoxy, this, in the light of the Second Coming. The Gospel by the four evangelists, according to Jesus and according to Paul: Spin the spotlight and take a look beyond the rhetoric. An understanding that moves Jesus from the temporal to the universal – why Matrilineality 2000 years ago. Get ready to be challenged and see the Kingdom as expressed by Jesus Christ. Judas was replaced by Matthias, Paul’s Conversion, Handmaid’s Tale, the Middle East and Christology without ethnicity.
Matrilineality in Judaism
Burbank Business
Feast of St. Gregory of Narek at the Vatican
Irish Heartbeat Chieftains & Van Morrison
Lenten Journey
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Day 32: Courage
Get up and do not be afraid. – Jesus (Matthew 17:7)
Day 31: God’s choice
I do choose. Be made clean! – Jesus (Mark 1)
Day 30: Purpose
Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do. – Jesus (Mark 1)
Day 29: Tears
Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. – Jesus (Luke 7)
