Your Daily Bible Verses — Psalm 136:1
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever. (Psalm 136:1) We strive to operate on a very small budget, but we need your help. Both one-time and monthly donations ar…
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In A Letter to Marcellinus, St. Athanasius offers a beautiful meditation on the unique power of the Psalms for bringing about emotional healing. What he says about praying with the Psalter, I think, can best be understood through the lens of the classical Greek conception of “mimesis” (or “representatio” in Latin), albeit with a strongly […]
Psalm 31: Have mercy on me, O Lord,For I am in distress.Tears have wasted my eyes,My throat and my heart.For my life is spent with sorrowAnd my years with sighs.Affliction has broken down my strengthAnd my bones waste away.In the face of all my foesI am a reproach,An object of scorn to my neighborsAnd of […]
Hear my voice, Lord, when I call;have mercy on me and answer me.“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”; your face, Lord, do I seek! Do not hide your face from me;do not repel your servant in anger.You are my salvation; do not cast me off;do not forsake me, God my savior!Even if my father and mother […]
Lord, you have been our refugethrough all generations.Before the mountains were born,the earth and the world brought forth,from eternity to eternity you are God. You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!” A thousand years in your eyesare merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night,you wash them away; They sleep,and in […]
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