TRINITY – WEEK 16 – FRIDAY LESSON: 2 TIMOTHY 1:8-10 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?” The sting of death…

TRINITY – WEEK 16 – THURSDAY LESSON: PSALM 119:121-128 “I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.” John 14:18 The common lesson taught in all the Gospels is that we should learn from them what kind of God we have. In this week’s Gospel (Luke 7:11-17), the point that is made quite…

TRINITY – WEEK 16 – WEDNESDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 9:10-15 O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men! Psalm 31:19 In what happened to the widow at Nain, God lets…

TRINITY – WEEK 16 – TUESDAY LESSON: PSALM 86:8-15 If many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. Romans 5:15 At times God suffers a man to experience fear and distress, pain and sorrow….

TRINITY – WEEK 16 – MONDAY LESSON: PSALM 100 “Your Father who is in heaven … makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45 If I only duly considered what God has done for me in giving me my eyes,…

TRINITY – WEEK 16 – SUNDAY LESSON: LUKE 7:11-17 It depends not upon man’s will or exertion, but upon God’s mercy. Romans 9:16 In this Gospel the evangelist once again sets before us a divine miracle. In it he wants to encourage us to direct our hearts to God if we find ourselves in a…

TRINITY – WEEK 15 – SATURDAY LESSON: JAMES 5:1-6 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Matthew 6:19-20…

TRINITY – WEEK 15 – FRIDAY LESSON: LUKE 12:13-21 “A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Luke 12:15 How does it come about that the Gospel and St. Paul single out greed and call it idolatry? They do not do this in the case of other gross sins like impurity,…

TRINITY – WEEK 15 – THURSDAY LESSON: PSALM 49:16-20 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Matthew 13:44 The world cannot hide its unbelief in its gross…

TRINITY – WEEK 15 –  WEDNESDAY  LESSON: COLOSSIANS 3:5-11  Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Ephesians 5:5  Where are these people who love God and have no hankering at all after…