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Remembering and Pondering—Then and Now
W. Paul Jones | Read Psalm 119:105-112
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At the monastery, we pray all 150 psalms in a two-week cycle because they were Jesus’ hymnbook. Today’s psalm is terribly repetitious: Various phrases keep saying the same thing—be obedient, walk in God’s ways, keep God’s commandments. Yet, on another level, such repetition is like a rosary that keeps repeating,...
On this day in 1591, Ralph Milner, an elderly illiterate English farmer, was executed. Earlier, after receiving Holy Communion for the first time, he felt called to shepherd priests illegally from place to place to provide the Eucharist for others. Lord, is Communion really that meaningful for me? Must you ask? Amen.
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