ADVENT 2025 – DAY SIX

Our forefathers put their trust in you;    they trusted, and you delivered them.            They cried out to you and were delivered;    they trusted in you and were not put to shame.[PSALM 22:4-5] ADVENT DAILY OFFICE READINGSAM Psalm 16, 17; PM Psalm 22Amos 5:1-17; Jude 1-16; Matt. 22:1-14 December 5, 2025, is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott.ContinueContinue reading “ADVENT 2025 – DAY SIX”

ADVENT 2025 – DAY TWO

Why are the nations in an uproar? *    Why do the peoples mutter empty threats?Why do the kings of the earth rise up in revolt,and the princes plot together, *    against the LORD and against his Anointed?[PSALM 2:1-2] ADVENT DAILY OFFICE READINGSAM Psalm 1, 2, 3; PM Psalm 4, 7Amos 2:6-16; 2 Pet. 1:1-11; Matt. 21:1-11 For today’s reflectionContinueContinue reading “ADVENT 2025 – DAY TWO”

STATELY MANSIONS

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!Let each new temple, nobler than the last,Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,Till thou at length art free,Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea![OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.] By now, everyone in the world has seen the stunningContinueContinue reading “STATELY MANSIONS”