August 4, 2021 – Epep 28, 1737
Hide your counsel from those who envy you
(Sir 37:10)
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Godly, Strong, Influential Women: The Faith of St. Julietta (VIII)
On this day (Epep 15; July 22) of the year 21 of the martyrs (305 AD), the two great saints, Cyriacus and Julietta, his mother, were martyred.
The Martyr Cyriacus is considered the youngest martyr to confess the Lord Christ, after the children of Bethlehem.
St. Cyriacus was born in the city […]
July 13, 2021 – Epep 6, 1737
How could anything continue to exist unless You willed it?
Or how could anything be preserved
Unless it was called into existence by You?
(Wisdom 11:25)
July 10, 2021 – Epep 3, 1737
The Lord says this:
“Because of you, My name is blasphemed continually among the Gentiles.”
(Is 52:5)
July 6, 2021 – Paone 29, 1737
So be careful to guard your souls, for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you
at Horeb on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
Do not act lawlessly and make for yourselves a carved form of any image:
the likeness of male or female
(Deut 4:15-16)
The […]
Godly, Strong, Influential Women: The Courage of St. Mary of Egypt (VII)
While many people, and maybe especially females, fear being alone,
St. Mary willingly accepted to be alone for the Lord’s sake.
Perhaps that is what makes her dear to the hearts of many.
Mary was born in Alexandria around 345 AD to Christian parents.
At the age […]
Godly, Strong, Influential Women: The Wisdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria (VI)
St. Catherine was born to pagan Egyptian parents in the city of Alexandria around the year 288 AD.
They named her Zorothia.
God granted her dazzling beauty and superior intelligence.
She diligently studied philosophy, poetry, music, math, astronomy, and medicine.
From all of her studies, she realized the falsehood and corruption […]
June 17, 2021 – Paone 10, 1737
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and everything within me, bless His holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His rewards:
Who is merciful to all your transgressions,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from corruption,
Who crowns you with mercy and compassion,
Who satisfies your desire with good […]
June 3, 2021 – Pashons 26, 1737
They prepared a trap for my feet,
and they bowed down my soul;
They dug a pit before my face,
but they fell into it.
(Ps 56:7)
Me have they hurt, or themselves?
Behold He has been exalted above the Heavens, God, and behold above all the earth the Glory of […]
May 26, 2021 – Pashons 18, 1737
There is not in that place any want at all;
but it is full of light, and life, and grace, and fullness, and satisfaction and renewal, and love,
and all the good promises that are written but not yet sealed.
For there is there that “which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which […]