Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. ...
I will magnify your nameso that you will be a blessing. This is the psalm … Mary to God from her Magnificat (Luke 1:46, 48, 49) My soul magnifies the Lord; For he has looked with favor upon his handmaid’s lowliness from now on all generations shall call me blessed The poetry of...
2 Peter 2:4-6: Peter also reveals that the Sodomites are suffering in hell for their sins by comparing the Sodomites’ punishment to the eternal punishment of the evil angels. Just as God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell, so He did the same with the ...
St. Irenaeus of Lyons calls Scripture the Tree of Paradise planted in the midst of the Church.[95]For those expelled from Paradise, however, this tree can only be the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and after partaking of it, they can be convinced only of the sad truth that ...
Serve God.Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence ...
20 ¶Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 29:13-14 13 ¶Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips...
we find there’s a problem that needs to be resolved. A scroll needs to be opened. But no one is worthy to break its seals, open it, and look inside. The scroll is crucial to open because it will announce God’s response to evil in the world. It will reveal God’s justice and ...
God doesn’tdoevil to achieve good (or to teach lessons). God doesn’tintend, rejoice in, or plan forsuffering. God redeems it. And we have faith in a God who Redeems. Cultivating Hope Trusting in a God who Redeems is at the root of the virtue of hope, and like all virtues, we...
“When he has quitted his body and the difference between virtue and vice is known he cannot approach God till the purging fire shall have cleansed the stains with which his soul was infested. That same fire in others will cancel the corruption of matter, and the propensity to evil.” Gre...
(the Septuagint). See also examples in the New Testament, such as Luke 1:43, where Elizabeth asks Mary, “How is it that the mother of my Kyrios (Lord) should come to me?” This is why Catholics call Mary the “Mother of God” (because God inspired Elizabeth to say the same thing...