“The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.”
October 15, 2026
God did not make the world as a carpenter makes a chest.
The chest which he makes is outside the carpenter,
and so it is put in another place;
and although the workman is near, he sits in another place,
and is external to that which he fashions.
But God, infused into the world, fashions it;
being everywhere present He fashions, and withdraws not Himself elsewhere,
nor does He, as it were, handle from without, the matter which He fashions.…
Consecrated Sisters
The word “consecrated” means separated from common use to sacred use; by which a person or a thing is dedicated to the service and worship of God by prayers, rites, and ceremonies. Following in the footsteps of the Mother of God, many females responded to the call of service and virginity. St. Phoebe was a deaconess who helped St. Paul (Rom 16:1-2).
