“You weren’t created for this world- so for the next forty days, live like it.” This Sunday, the first reading might surprise us. It’s Lent, so we might expect to hear about fasting or penance. Perhaps we expect the first reading to be about sacrifice or suffering. Instead, we start at the beginning. We’re back in the Garden, with the […]
Genesis
Encountering the Word — Genesis 1:1-2
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Encountering the Word — Genesis 1:1-2
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Daily Reflection—Do you trust God?
So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord will provide; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” (Genesis 22:14). Today’s first reading (Genesis 22:1-19) is the account of Abraham’s response to God’s command to sacrifice Isaac. When commanded by God to offer his only son in sacrifice, Abraham’s […]
Encountering the Word — Genesis 3:15
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (Genesis 3:15) Print this entry
Encountering the Word — Genesis 1:26-28
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created man […]
Encountering the Word — Genesis 1:26-28
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created man […]
Encountering the Word — Genesis 6:5
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5) Print this entry
Encountering the Word — Genesis 1:1-2
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) Print this entry
Encountering the Word — Genesis 6:5
A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5) Print this entry