See! By His teaching He made the persecutor into a persecuted oneand the insolent one into the chosen vessel of His proclamation.Through Saul, the mattock, who set out to uproot the churches,He laid the foundations of faith for the whole world.He made the demolisher the architect of His building,He laid the foundation upon which allContinue reading “He hunted the hawk and turned it into a dove”
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Three Days
For three days Esther fasted and Judith kept vigil, the exiles came home to Jerusalem and the Hebrews marched to the waters of Marah. For three days darkness afflicted the Egyptians, Hezekiah lay mortally ill, Jonah was entombed in the belly of a fish, and Paul waited in blindness. On the third day Abraham offeredContinue reading “Three Days”
Locus Communis 