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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/5/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 43[a]1 Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. 2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? 3 Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with...

"Like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation" (1 Pet. 2:2). Scripture is our source of spiritual growth. A newborn baby was abandoned in a pile of trash in a city alley. The mother had obviously left it there to die. The infant was near death when someone heard its faint cry and summoned medical help. The child survived, but not until it had received the attention and nourishment it needed. That situation has a spiritual parallel, which Peter used to illustrate the believer's dependence on God's...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus replied, “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight.” Luke 10:30–33Jews viewed Samaritans as heretics, and Samaritans often harbored disdain for Jews. Though...

Skeptics question my honesty when I say I’m both a scientist and a Christian. They refuse to take seriously someone who believes in quantum physics and calls Jesus his Lord and Savior. The most hate-filled among them accuse me of being a fake scientist and/or fake Christian. Their minds simply cannot comprehend the possibility that science and Christianity are entirely, comfortably compatible. In science-speak, these skeptics have a “classical” worldview. It’s a perception of reality that is purely logical, material, and mechanistic — very much like Newton’s classical physics. For these classicists, a body is just flesh and blood, a...

Please join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

My dear friends, Almighty God’s Word has given us a clear-cut picture of how events will be and transpire in the last days (Matt. 24; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3; 2 Thess. 2:3-12; Jude 1; Rev. 6-19). The common denominator of our Last Day's world is the EXPONENTIAL growth of all things! Absolutely nothing can or will stop these events from coming to pass. Today, Americans live in a false reality and security; they delude themselves, saying, “Peace and safety can never happen to us.” My dear friend, that is our greatest delusion and Achilles heel! America will eventually succumb to...

4 October 2026 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Rocky Mount, VA Readings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 5:1-7Against the Lord’s vineyardLet me sing to my friendthe song of his love for his...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (10/4/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalms 42–72Psalm 42[a][b]Psalms 42–72Psalm 42[a][b]For the director of music. A maskil[c] of the Sons of Korah.1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under...

FEAR THOU NOT SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, death is the king of all fears, and fear entered into this world after the fall of Adam and Eve because they transgressed and sinned against the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS of Almighty God. Throughout all of the Holy Scriptures, God lovingly calls His people who are oppressed by the many fears of this fallen world to place all of their trust and hope in Him rather than in the false systems, false saviors, and false solutions of this demonically inverted fallen world. Again and again, the Almighty God says to His redeemed, "Fear thou not."...

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). The Holy Spirit protects you from false doctrine, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for diligent Bible study. For the next few days we'll consider several benefits of Bible study. Today we'll address the broader question of why Bible study is necessary at all. Perhaps you know believers who think Bible study is unnecessary. Bible reading, they say, is sufficient because we have the Holy Spirit, who teaches us all things. Often they...

Pope Leo XIV presented the Pius XI Medal to Karin Öberg, a Harvard scientist specializing in astrochemistry, during a recent audience with members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The award, presented on Sept. 24, recognizes scientists under the age of 45 who have distinguished themselves through their research and show “exceptional promise” in their field. Öberg has spoken publicly about her conversion to Catholicism and how her pursuit of knowledge influenced her journey toward faith. In a 2011 interview with the Augustine Institute, she explained that there were aspects of the world that began to make it difficult for...

Daily Readings from the USCCBTwenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary TimeJesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes? Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.” Matthew 21:42–43The Parable of the Wicked Tenants is rich in Old Testament imagery. The image of the vineyard comes from the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1–7) and represents the people of Israel. The...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...

By Dr. John BergsmaThe past several Sundays we have been reading from the vineyard parables of Jesus in Matthew, and this Sunday we reach a climactic point in the hostility between the leaders of the people (chief priests and elders) and Jesus. The Readings for this Lord’s Day are skillfully chosen to complement the Gospel reading. Most commentators agree that the vine parables of the Old Testament found in Isaiah 5 and Psalm 80 are the textual background for Jesus’ own vineyard parable in Matthew 21:33-43. The First Reading gives us Isaiah 5:1-7, the key prophetic parable that identifies the...

"My Word . . . shall not return to Me . . . without accomplishing what I desire" (Isa. 55:11). "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord" (Deut. 8:3). God’s Word is both productive and nourishing. The Bible contains many precious promises, two of which relate specifically to itself. First, the prophet Isaiah said that the Word is productive: "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout, and...

[Catholic Caucus] Incarnate Word founder, friend of McCarrick, confirmed to have abused seminarians Argentine Father Carlos Miguel Buela, who died in 2023, had long been under suspicion of alleged sexual abuse of seminarians. The Holy See this week confirmed that the now-deceased founder of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), whose work was supported by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, was guilty “of acts constituting an offence against the sixth commandment, committed with violence against several people.”Ecclesiastical tribunals “reached moral certainty regarding the responsibility of Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela,” founder of both IVE and its female counterpart, the Servants of the...

Another diocesan priest links up with SSPX, bishop removes faculties The bishop of Knoxville, TN, who suppressed the Latin Mass earlier this year, has now revoked the faculties of a diocesan priest who has associated himself with the SSPX. The bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, has revoked all the faculties of a diocesan priest who has associated himself with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). A strongly-worded statement issued by the diocese said that Bishop James Beckman had withdrawn all faculties, permissions, and authorizations previously granted to Fr. David Mary Engo for ministry within the diocese. “He is not authorized...

3 October 2026 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time All Saints Catholic Church, Diocese of Middlesbrough, UKFirst readingJob 42:1-3,5-6,12-17In dust and in ashes I repentThis was the answer Job gave to the Lord:I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed words.I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my own eyes,I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent.The...

As a young, unsaved man, I was very much into the heavy metal scene, not just participating in the lifestyle and culture, but also in the playing this music. A song that we used to play and listen to continually was a song by Iron Maiden called “The Number of the Beast”. The intro of this song begins with a man with a very eerie voice quoting Revelation 12:12, 13:18. "Woe to you, O Earth and Sea for the Devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short Let him who has understanding reckon the number...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo seeks status update of Francis’s divisive look at divorced and remarried CatholicsROME — Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’s document has been implemented.Vatican officials on Friday stressed that Francis’s 2016 text Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) isn’t up for rewriting, amending or scrapping. Rather, the weeklong closed-door conference starting Wednesday is meant to understand how bishops have incorporated the document’s teaching into their local communities.Francis’s...