Catholicism
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Sacrament: Eucharist
the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from. —John 2:9 As I read of Jesus’s first miracle—turning water into wine—the footnotes of my Bible offered a little more than I’d noticed before. Yes, this was his first miracle, and it shows his awesome power.… Continue reading
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All Saints’ Day
It was nine o’clock in the morning when a friend texted me, an hour that neither one of us are inclined to typically acknowledge. “Happy All Saints’ Day!” she’d written. “Huzzah!” I’d replied. “And you texted me just as I got out of Mass.” “Look at you, attending Mass on a holy day of obligation!”… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6