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Letter of James 4, 7-17

7 Submit yourselves[note a], then, to GOD. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to GOD and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy

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Cassian’s Spiritual Conferences: Learning from the experience of our ancestors

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Psalm 82

1 [A song of Asaph[note a]] GOD stands in the congregation of GOD; He judgeth among the gods [mighty]. 2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the wicked forever? 3 Judge the poor and orphan; justify the humble and the impoverished. 4 Release the poor and the needy;

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Ecclesiastes 11, 4-6

4 He who waits for the wind will not sow, and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. [note a] 5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, just as things enclosed in the full womb; so will you not know GOD’s work,

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Matthew 5, 17-19

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets [note a]: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily [note b] I say unto you, Till Heaven and Earth pass, one jot or one dash shall in no wise pass from the

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1 Corinthians 3, 16-23

16 Do you not know that you are GOD’s Temple and that GOD’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys GOD’s Temple, GOD will destroy that person. For GOD’s Temple is Holy, and you are that Temple. 18 Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise

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1King 9, 3-9

3 The LORD said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before Me; I have consecrated this Temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My Eyes and my Heart will always be there. 4 As for you, if you walk before me

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Isaiah 45, 5-7

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides Me there is no god: I will strengthen you although you have not known Me. 6 In order that they know, from the shining of the sun and from the west, that there is no one besides Me; I

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Epistle to the Ephesians 3, 8-12

8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all Saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to enlighten all what [is] the administration of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world having been hidden in GOD, the

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Palm Sunday: The historical truth

Palm Sunday according to Christian tradition is the Sunday before Easter. On this day it is remembered the entry into Jerusalem of Jesus, celebrated by the crowds waving palm branches (Gospel according to John Cap. 12, 12-15). The multitude assembled from the rumors of the Messiah’s arrival, to honor him,

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The Third and Last Temple of Jerusalem

The Third Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש השלישי‎, Beit haMikdash haShlishi, literally: “The Holy Third House“) would be the third Temple in Jerusalem, after the rebuilt of the first (Solomon’s Temple) and Second Temple. It will be the Temple of the “One GOD” of Jewish people and mentioned in Holy Texts

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Flavius Josephus: Prophet, roman soldier and great historian

Josephus (Jerusalem, ca. 37-38 AD – Rome, about 100 AD) was a Roman religious, writer, historian, politician and military from Jewish origin, and of priestly caste. It is very important to study his writings as it remains today the first historical source that reports in detail the events that occurred

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John Chrysostom: The “golden-mouthed”, man of GOD and teologician

John Chrysostom (in Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος) Born 349 – Died 14 September 407), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom,

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20 Prophets that everybody should know

The Prophet is an individual regarded as being in contact with a Divine Being and said to speak on that Entity’s behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. The Message that the Prophet conveys is called a prophecy,

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Clerical celibacy in Catholic Church

Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood (as a rule to which exceptions are sometimes made for individuals) in some autonomous particular Churches, and similarly to the diaconate, though in this last case exceptions exist

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