December 22, 2022

The Virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel– which means, “God with us”. Matthew 1:23 NIV

Bible verses for today, Nahum, Revelation 13, to finish the Bible in one year. (The Catholic Bible, the original one that includes all the books not included in Bibles used by other Christians.)

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Nahum 1

Prophecy about Nineveh. Book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

2 Yahweh is a jealous and vengeful God, Yahweh takes vengeance, he is rich in wrath; Yahweh takes vengeance on his foes, he stores up fury for his enemies.

3 Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power, Yahweh never lets evil go unpunished. In storm and whirlwind he takes his way, the clouds are the dust stirred up by his feet.

4 He rebukes the sea, dries it up, and makes all the rivers run dry. . . . Bashan and Carmel wither, the greenery of the Lebanon withers too.

5 The mountains tremble before him, the hills reel; the earth collapses before him, the world and all who live in it.

6 His fury — who can withstand it? Who can endure his burning wrath? His anger pours out like fire and the rocks break apart before him.

7 Yahweh is better than a fortress in time of distress; he recognises those who trust in him

8 even when the flood rushes on; he will make an end once and for all of those who defy him, and pursue his foes into darkness.

9 What are your thoughts about Yahweh? He it is who makes a final end: his adversaries will not rise up a second time;

10 like a thicket of tangled brambles, like dry straw, they will be burnt up completely. To Assyria

11 From you has emerged someone plotting evil against Yahweh, one of Belial’s counsellors. To Judah

12 Yahweh says this: Unopposed and many though they be, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have made you suffer, I shall make you suffer no more,

13 for now I shall break his yoke which presses hard on you and snap your chains. To the king of Nineveh

14 As for you, this is Yahweh’s decree: You will have no heirs to your name, from the temple of your gods I shall remove carved image and cast image, and I shall devastate your tomb, for you are accursed!

Nahum 2

1 To Judah See on the mountains the feet of the herald! ‘Peace!’ he proclaims. Judah, celebrate your feasts, carry out your vows, for Belial will never pass through you again; he has been utterly destroyed.

2 The destroyer has advanced on you, guarding the siege-works, watching the road, bracing himself, mustering great strength!

3 (For Yahweh has restored the vine of Jacob, yes, the vine of Israel, although the plunderers had plundered them, although they had snapped off their vine-shoots!)

4 The shields of his fighting men show red, his warriors are dressed in scarlet; the metal of the chariots sparkles as he prepares for battle; the horsemen are impatient for action;

5 the chariots storm through the streets, jostling one another in the squares; they look like blazing flames, like lightning they dash to and fro.

6 His captains are called out; stumbling as they go, they speed towards the wall, and the mantelet is put in position.

7 The sluices of the River are opened, and the palace melts in terror.

8 Beauty is taken captive, carried away, her slave-girls moaning like doves

9 and beating their breasts. Nineveh is like a lake, whose waters are draining away. ‘Stop! Stop!’ But no one turns back.

10 ‘Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!’ There is no end to the treasure, a mass of everything you could desire!

11 Ravaged, wrecked, ruined! Heart fails and knees give way, anguish is in the loins of all, and every face grows pale!

12 Where is the lions’ den now, the cave of the lion’s whelps, where the lion and lioness walked with their cubs and no one molested them,

13 where the lion would tear up food for his whelps and strangle the kill for his mates, where he filled his caverns with prey and his lairs with spoil?

14 Look, I am against you!- declares Yahweh Sabaoth- I shall send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your whelps; I shall cut short your depredations on earth, and the voices of your envoys will be heard no more.

Nahum 3

1 Disaster to the city of blood, packed throughout with lies, stuffed with booty, where plundering has no end!

2 The crack of the whip! The rumble of wheels! Galloping horse, jolting chariot,

3 charging cavalry, flashing swords, gleaming spears, a mass of wounded, hosts of dead, countless corpses; they stumble over corpses-

4 because of the countless whorings of the harlot, the graceful beauty, the cunning witch, who enslaved nations by her harlotries and tribes by her spells.

5 Look, I am against you!- declares Yahweh Sabaoth- I shall lift your skirts as high as your face and show your nakedness to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.

6 I shall pelt you with filth, I shall shame you and put you in the pillory.

7 Then all who look at you will shrink from you and say, ‘Nineveh has been ruined!’ Who will mourn for her? Where would I find people to comfort you?

8 Are you better off than No-Amon situated among rivers, her defences the seas, her rampart the waters?

9 In Ethiopia and Egypt lay her strength, and it was boundless; Put and the Libyans served in her army.

10 But she too went into exile, into captivity; her little ones too were dashed to pieces at every crossroad; lots were drawn for her nobles, all her great men were put in chains.

11 You too will become drunk, you will go into hiding; you too will have to search for a refuge from the enemy.

12 Your fortifications are all fig trees, with early ripening figs: as soon as they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Look at your people: you are a nation of women! The gates of your country gape open to your enemies; fire has devoured their bars!

14 Draw yourselves water for the siege, strengthen your fortifications! Into the mud with you, puddle the clay, repair the brick-kiln!

15 There the fire will burn you up, the sword will cut you down. Make yourselves as numerous as locusts, make yourselves as numerous as the hoppers,

16 let your commercial agents outnumber the stars of heaven,

17 your garrisons, like locusts, and your marshals, like swarms of hoppers! They settle on the walls when the day is cold. The sun appears, the locusts spread their wings, they fly away,away they fly, no one knows where. Alas,

18 your shepherds are asleep, king of Assyria, your bravest men slumber; your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

19 There is no remedy for your wound, your injury is past healing. All who hear the news of you clap their hands at your downfall. For who has not felt your unrelenting cruelty?

Revelation 13

Then I saw a beast emerge from the sea: it had seven heads and ten horns, with a coronet on each of its ten horns, and its heads were marked with blasphemous titles.

2 I saw that the beast was like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion; the dragon had handed over to it his own power and his throne and his immense authority.

3 I saw that one of its heads seemed to have had a fatal wound but that this deadly injury had healed and the whole world had marvelled and followed the beast.

4 They prostrated themselves in front of the dragon because he had given the beast his authority; and they prostrated themselves in front of the beast, saying, ‘Who can compare with the beast? Who can fight against it?’

5 The beast was allowed to mouth its boasts and blasphemies and to be active for forty-two months;

6 and it mouthed its blasphemies against God, against his name, his heavenly Tent and all those who are sheltered there.

7 It was allowed to make war against the saints and conquer them, and given power over every race, people, language and nation;

8 and all people of the world will worship it, that is, everybody whose name has not been written down since the foundation of the world in the sacrificial Lamb’s book of life.

9 Let anyone who can hear, listen:

10 Those for captivity to captivity; those for death by the sword to death by the sword. This is why the saints must have perseverance and faith.

11 Then I saw a second beast, emerging from the ground; it had two horns like a lamb, but made a noise like a dragon.

12 This second beast exercised all the power of the first beast, on its behalf making the world and all its people worship the first beast, whose deadly injury had healed.

13 And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fire from heaven onto the earth while people watched.

14 Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to lead astray the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honour of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived.

15 It was allowed to breathe life into this statue, so that the statue of the beast was able to speak, and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast put to death.

16 It compelled everyone — small and great alike, rich and poor, slave and citizen — to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead,

17 and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name.

18 There is need for shrewdness here: anyone clever may interpret the number of the beast: it is the number of a human being, the number 666.


The complete Book of Nahum

The book of Revelation

Sermons on the Book of Nehum

Sermon on the Book of Revelation

Catholic Daily Readings at every Mass

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Take a half hour, put this on a large screen for easier reading as you watch and listen to the soothing music by Enya. It certainly refreshes my mind and heart and keeps me in positive faith. God Bless You.
Words from August 3, and 4,

Dr. Myles Munroe

Myles Munroe’s Message shortly before his Death! Chilling

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Called to Communion Dr. David Anders

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Rosary Mysteries

Joyful Mysteries

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Luminous Mysteries

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Sorrowful Mysteries

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Sorrowful Mysteries (Music reduced) ; Tues / Fri

Glorious Mysteries

Glorious Mysteries (Music reduced): WED / SUN

Prayers of the Rosary

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;

Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried,

He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

(this prayer is optional and may be said after all Glory Be to the Fathers…..)

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell.

Lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in most need of thy mercy.

Console the souls in Purgatory, particularly those most abandoned. Amen

Hail Mary,

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The Hail, Holy Queen

Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life our sweetness and our hope.

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;

To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

That we maybe made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Closing Prayer

O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation.

Grant, we beseech Thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

that we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(The Fatima Prayer:)

Most Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – I adore thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference’s whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.

Prayer to St. Michael

Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do you, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

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