[Let your enemies] know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. (Ps 83:18, 13)

For if thou believest the Faith, why dost thou add other things, as if the faith were not sufficient to justify? Why dost thou enslave thyself by subjection to the Law? Hast thou no confidence in what thou believest? This is a mark of an unsound and unbelieving mind. (John

You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Ps 77:14-15)

Dear brothers and sisters of our Lord Jesus Christ, on this day the Church begins a holy season of prayerful and penitential reflection. Our attention is especially directed to the holy sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. From ancient times the season of Lent has been

He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. (Ps 91:11–12)

The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. (Ps 25:17–18)

Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you! When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence. (Ps 9:19, 3)

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Peace be within your walls and security within your towers! (Ps 122:1, 7)

You hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. (Ps 73:23b–24, 1)

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my

And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly. (Lk 22:61-62) youtube.com/watch?v=BsCf5X…

O sorrow dread! Our God is dead, Upon the cross extended. There His love enlivened us As His life was ended. (LSB 448:2)

“Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Stay not thy regard upon the words of seeming kindness, or the seeming cruelty of the rebuke; look into the vein they come from; seek the root whence they proceed. The one is gentle and bland that he may deceive, the other quarrels that he may correct. Well then, it is not for

Blessèd are You, O Lord, who beholds the deep, and who dwells between the cherubim. Blessèd are You, O Lord, in the firmament of heaven, and greatly to be praised forever.