The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew 2:13-23 “Out of Egypt have I called My Son.” These are the familiar words spoken by the prophet Hosea and quoted here by St. Matthew the evangelist. Let’s take a moment to think about these words. It is no stretch of the imagination to say […]
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The Ten Commandments: 10 The tenth and final commandment given to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai is: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” In many ways […]
The Ten Commandments #9: The ninth commandment given to Moses by the Lord on Mt. Sinai is “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” This commandment is not simply meant for the neighbors that live near you but for everyone with whom you are in contact. As we are reminded when someone asked […]
The eighth commandment given to Moses by the Lord on Mt. Sinai is “You shall not steal.” Like many of the commandments it requires us to dig deep and search our hearts. Most of us are law-abiding citizens not prone to violence or theft or any similar infractions. The thing about the commandments is that […]
The Ten Commandments: #5 We find ourselves once again looking at the Ten Commandments given to Moses by the almighty God. As we have just completed an election where inevitably one side is crushed and the other is soaring with happiness we are reminded that there is no such thing as a governmental or political […]
We are often taught by the Lord Jesus Christ through His parables or stories. Through these stories He conveys truth and reality to us. Because the Lord Himself is truth, His stories become more than simple fairy tales, they become truth for us. We are told by the Lord that after a poor man named […]
The Ten Commandments, Part 2 As we said last week, the reason that we want to study the ten commandments is that it is easy to lose our way and to forget that God has given us some very direct instructions for how to live our lives. Knowledge of and obedience to the commandments can […]
