The Living Bread!

My friends, how much of this material world do we cling to? It is true that we need shelter, we need food and clothing. What else do we truly need beyond this? We need the Word of God; Jesus the Christ, the Bread of Life. What things do we fast and ask for? Are they worthy of the fasting and asking? What does Almighty God have to say regarding these things?

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.

1 Cry, cease not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that has done justice, and has not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God. 3 Why have we fasted, and you have not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and you have not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. 4 Behold you fast for debates and strife. And strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high. 5 Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

 6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. 7 Deal your bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into your house: when you shall see one naked, cover him, and despise not your own flesh. 8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily arise, and your justice shall go before your face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather you up.

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In Christ,

+William

No other name under heaven!

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: You princes of the people, and ancients, hear: 9 If we this day are on trial concerning the good deed done to the sick man, by what means he has been made whole: 10 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

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In Christ,

+William

Keep Innocence!

37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man. 38 But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish. 39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble. 40 And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

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In Christ,

+William

Confess Now!

My friends,

Let us not forget confession and repentance. Remember that it is necessary if there is to be any spiritual growth to take place.

 19 Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you. 20 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. 21 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you. 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

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In Christ,

+William

Let not the foot of pride come to me

1 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. 2 The unjust has said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes. 3 For in his sight he has done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred. 4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well. 5 He has devised iniquity on his bed, he has set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he has not hated. 6 O Lord, your mercy is in heaven, and your truth reaches, even to the clouds. 7 Your justice is as the mountains of God; your judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts you will preserve, O Lord: 8 O how have you multiplied your mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of your wings. 9 They shall be inebriated with the plenty of your house; and you shall make them drink of the torrent of your pleasure. 10 For with you is the fountain of life; and in your light we shall see light. 11 Extend your mercy to them that know you and your justice to them that are right in heart. 12 Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me. 13 There the workers of iniquity are fallen; they are cast out, and could not stand.

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In Christ,

+William

High Priestly Intercessory Prayer

1 These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 As you have given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: That they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have glorified you on the earth; I have finished the work which you gave me to do. 5 And now glorify me, O Father, with yourself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with you.

 6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. Yours they were, and to me you gave them; and they have kept your word. 7 Now they have known, that all things which you have given me, are from you: 8 Because the words which you gave me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom you have given me: because they are Yours: 10 And all my things are Yours, and Yours are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me; that they may be one, as we also are. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled. 13 And now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world. 15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from evil. 16 They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

 20 And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me; 21 That they all may be one, as you, Father, in me, and I in you; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 And the glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: 23 I in them, and you in me; that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have also loved me. 24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom you have given me may be with me; that they may see my glory which you have given me, because you have loved me before the creation of the world. 25 Just Father, the world has not known you; but I have known you: and these have known that you have sent me. 26 And I have made known your name to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith you have loved me, may be in them, and I in them.

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In Christ,

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Judge, O Lord, them that wrong me!

1 For David himself. Judge you, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me. 3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am your salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. 5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them. 6 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. 7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. 

8 Let the snare which he knows not come upon him: and let the net which he has hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall. 9 But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to you? Who delivers the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him. 11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not. 12 They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom. 14 As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled. 

15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not. 16 They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 Lord, when will you look upon me? rescue you my soul from their malice: my only one from the lions. 18 I will give thanks to you in a great church; I will praise you in a strong people. 19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes. 20 For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile. 21 And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it. 22 You have seen, O Lord, be not silent: O Lord, depart not from me. 

23 Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O Lord my God according to your justice, and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me. 27 Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant. 28 And my tongue shall meditate your justice, your praise all the day long.

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Many Blessings!

In Christ,

+William