Tag: Peace & Shalom
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Jesus talking to us, the contemporary believers, through the psalmist
Seeker: “O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.” I have a feeling though, the victory was one that the psalmist wanted. This seems to be a pattern of the psalmist. Praising the Lord for victories that the…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year A, 2023 – Old Testament Passage: When even the “different” is different
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, . . . “ (Zechariah 9:9a) They say (they being the commentators who “open” the scriptures to us “common” folk) that this passage is a foretelling of the Messiah. And I, finally, agree that…
A Simple Desire 