LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Jude 1: 17, 20b-25 Remember the words spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: Beloved, build yourself up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. Have compassion for those who waver, and for others pull them out of the fire, and on still others have mercy with fear, hating the outer garment stained by the flesh. No

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: 1 Peter 4:7-13 Take nothing for granted as the end of all things is at hand. Be vigilant in prayer. Above all, let your love for one another be fervent for love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another ungrudgingly. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s grace. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracle of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it with the ability God has given th

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: 1 Peter 2: 2-5, 9-12 As newborn babes. desire the authentic milk of the word that you may grow from it. If you do so, you will be sustained in the LORD’s graciousness. Welcome Him, a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious. You, also, are living stones. Let yourself be built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. You are a chosen generation, a royal

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: 1 Peter 1:18-25 Understand that you were not ransomed from your futile behavior by perishable things such as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who was foreordained before the foundation of the world and manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing you ha

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Mark 10:28-31 Then Peter said to Him, “We have left everything and have followed You.” Jesus answered and said, “Truly, I tell you that there is no man that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and for the gospel who will not receive a hundredfold more in this present age: houses, brethren, sisters, mothers children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life. B

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 19:25-27 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, his aunt, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus saw his mother and the disciple He loved standing near her. He said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that moment the disciple took her into his own home. MEDITATIO - Meditate on text, allow the LORD to touch us with His Word: BREAKING OPEN THE TEXT: Today’s

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Acts 1:13-14 When they entered the city (Jerusalem), they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John and James and Andrew, Phillip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these devoted themselves with one accord, to pray together with some women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with His kin. MEDITATIO - Meditate on text, allow the LORD to touch us with His Wor

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 19:25-27 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, his aunt, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus saw his mother and the disciple He loved standing near her. He said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that moment

: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 2:1-12 There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there as were Jesus and his disciples. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, what have I to do with this. My hour has not yet come.” His mother said t

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 2:41-52 Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem as was the custom of the feast. When they had fulfilled the days, they returned, but unbeknownst to Joseph and his mother, Jesus stayed behind in Jeru

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 2:22b-35 Joseph and Mary took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord just as it is written in the law o the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord” and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two pigeons in accordance with the dictate in t

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 2:15-20 And it came to pass that after the angels left them, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass which the LORD has made know to us.” And they went with hast and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in a manger. When th

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 2:1-7 And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered (and this record was first made when Quirinus was governor of Syria). And all went to be registered, everyone into his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 1: 46-55 And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, My spirit rejoices in God my Savior, For He has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day on, all generations will call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, And holy is his name. He has mercy

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 1:39-45 And Mary rose and went into the hill country with haste, into the city of Juda, and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby in her womb leaped, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

NOTE: For the remaining days of May, I will feature a Scripture text involving Mary as tribute to her in this her month as the Mother of our Savior. LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 1:26-38 And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from Got to a city in Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man named Joseph of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel came to her and said, “Hail, favored one, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Acts 1:15-17. 20-26 Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (the number of names together were about one hundred and twenty gathered together) and said, “The scriptures must be fulfilled which came from the mouth of David through the Holy Spirit concerning Judas who guided those who arrested Jesus. Judas was numbered among us and shared part of this ministry. For it is written in the Book of Psalms: ‘Let his encampment become desolate and

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Acts 17:22-34 Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “I see that you Athenians are very religious in every respect. For as I passed by, looking at your devotions, I found an altar with the inscription “To the unknown God.” He whom you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. This God made the world and all things in it. He does not dwell in temples made with human hands because He is Lord of heaven and earth. Neither is He served with hu

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Acts 16:22-34 And the multitude rose up together against them (Paul and Silas), and the magistrates had them stripped and beaten. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison. They charged the jailor to keep them secure, so he thrust them into the inner prison and bound their hands and feet in the stocks. And it happened at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God within the hearing of the other pri

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 15:26-16:4a (Jesus said to his disciples) “When the Advocate comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the very Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me. And you also shall bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning. “These things I have told you that you shall not fall away. They shall put you out of the synagogues. The time is coming when those who would kill you will think that they do