“Prayer has healed barrenness,
prayer has overthrown armies,
prayer has revealed mysteries,
prayer has divided the sea,
prayer made a passage through the Jordan.
It held back the sun, it made the moon stand still,
it destroyed the unclean, it caused fire to descend.
Prayer closed up the heaven, prayer raised up from the pit,
rescued from the fire, and saved […]
“And I will sow them among the peoples, and those far off will remember Me.
They will rear their children, and they will return.
And I shall bring them back from the land of Egypt
and gather them in from the Assyrians.
I shall bring them into the land of Gilead and into Lebanon;
not even one of […]
“I have seen an end of every perfection;
but Your commandments are very broad”
(Ps 118:96, Septuagint)
For thus says the Lord Almighty [God the Son]:
“He [God the Father] has sent Me [God the Son] out after glory
to the nations that plundered you,
for the one who assails you is as one who assails the apple of His eye.”
(Zech 2:12, OSB)
“Be gathered together and united to one another”
(Zeph 2:1, OSB)
A man, then, who remains the same and yet prattles to himself
about the change for the better that he has undergone in baptism
should attend to what Paul says,
“If anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Gal 6:3).
For you are not what you have not yet become.
The Gospel […]
Ask, and it will be given to you;
seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives,
and he who seeks finds,
and to him who knocks it will be opened.
(Matthew 7:7-8)
He raises the poor from the earth and lifts the needy from the dung heap,
to set them among princely people and make them inherit a throne of glory.
The One who gives a prayer to the one praying,
He blesses with righteous years;
for by strength no man can prevail.
The Lord makes His adversaries weak;
the Lord is holy.
Let not the man of learning boast in his understanding,
nor let the man of might boast in his might,
nor let the man of riches boast in his riches.
Only let the one who boasts boast in this:
To understand and to know the Lord
and to do justice and righteousness in the midst of the earth.
(Hannah, 1 Sam 2:8-10, OSB)