
Acts of Mercy – Tabitha/Dorcas
“I loved the part about sewing clothes, particularly since I don’t and can’t. I can however use my hands in other ways. Let me tell you why that’s important to me.”
“I loved the part about sewing clothes, particularly since I don’t and can’t. I can however use my hands in other ways. Let me tell you why that’s important to me.”
David and Charlette discuss the story of Jesus healing the blindness of a man named Bartimaeus from this week’s gospel
Joe refuses to endorse Drew’s favorite show. Drew kind of compliments Joel Osteen. And they finally get back to the Sermon on the Mount to discover what Jesus has against promises.
We start by talking about the “how” of implementing of Jesus’ vision doesn’t always unfold as we might want it to before moving onto our continuing conversation on prayer, especially penitence.
Luci and Jordan continue their look at North American saints this week with Marguerite d’Youville a French Canadian woman who founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, often called the Grey Nuns of Montreal.
“Regardless, people continue learning throughout their lives. Our minds change a thousand times on things both great and small. Sometimes the changes are drastic, but more they are small. We know so much more than we did when we were six, or sixteen, or even thirty-six, and we will be wiser still when we become the elders.”
Not a word has been spoken by any bishop in the Church of England about this looming, Church-sponsored infringement of basic human rights. – Charlie Bell, Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge
“Maybe all these items, people, places, and events are not gone. They are treasures stored up for me in heaven. I can pull them down into my heart—hold them again in my memory.”
“Holy, holy, holy, the hand of the Almighty One,
that brushes away the cares of the troubled
and stands guard over those who sleep.”
In Ghana, home to a diverse array of religions, leaders of major churches have united in denouncing homosexuality as a “perversion” and endorsing legislation that would, if enacted, impose some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ policies in Africa. Among those supporting the legislation are Anglican bishops and Catholic bishops.