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"Remember me, Oh Lord, when You come into Your kingdom." (Luke 23: 42)
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"If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and His word is not in us." (1Jn, 1:10)
"....when he shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he really is". (1Jn, 3:2)
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Psalm 103:14: "He remembers that we are dust."
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James 1:2-5
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials,
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
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Luke 7:
35 But wisdom is vindicated by all her children." 36 10 11 A Pharisee invited him to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. 37 Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment, 38 she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.
Are we afaid to annoint Jesus feet with our tears when we see him lifted up before us on the Altar?
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My Favorite New Testament verse is Philippians 4:4-7 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
I also love Psalm 91
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, �He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.�
3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler[a]
And from the perilous pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
12 In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 �Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.�
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Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53, KJV)
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I'm a newbie but I'll bite! My favorite verse of scripture has always been James 1:2 Consider it pure joy my brothers when you face trials of many kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. (Notice the presbyterian NIV translation I grew up with  ) -matt
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I love this word. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. (John 5:15, KJV) Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Hristos a �nviat! Adevărat a �nviat! Χριστος ανεστη! Αληθως ανεστη!
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Hi Marian, We have missed you here on Byzcath!  Anyway, thank you for a very good scriptural verse. Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! Your friend and sister in Christ, Alice
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The Gospel of St. Lucas, 1:26-38
(How did this become Luke in English?)
In the sixth month, the Archangel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the House of David. The virgin's name was Maria. and he came to her and said,
Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum. But Maria was perplexed by his words and wondered what sort of greeting this might be. The Archangel Gabriel said to her, "Do not have fear, Maria, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will concieve and bear a son and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to Him he throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingodm will have no end." Maria said to Gabriel, "How can this be, since I do not know man?" Gabriel said to her, "Th Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the pwoer of the Most High will oveshadow you, therefore, the chid to be born will be holy, he will be called the Son of God. And now, your kinswoman Elizabeth, in her old age, has concieved a son, and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing is impossible with God." Then, Maria said, "I am the handmaiden of the Lord. Let it be done to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.
I used the Latin because, in my humble opinion, the Ave Maria set to Schubert is the most beautiful hymn in the Latin Church.
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I used the Latin because, in my humble opinion, the Ave Maria set to Schubert is the most beautiful hymn in the Latin Church. ABSOLUTELY! ....it brings tears to my eyes, every time! Have you heard Andrea Boccelli sing it? In the Risen Christ, Alice
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My father sang it at my wife's and my wedding. It was also the prayer of my conversion back to the Catholic faith some 20 years ago.
Even as a Byzantine, I'm very attached to this special form of "Jesus Prayer", with the Holy Name embedded in the womb of the prayer.
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Originally posted by Alice: I used the Latin because, in my humble opinion, the Ave Maria set to Schubert is the most beautiful hymn in the Latin Church.
Have you heard Andrea Boccelli sing it?
In the Risen Christ,
Alice I�m sorry, Alice, I have not. I have a CD of the Cathedral Singers, who are from Chicago. Loreli McDermott is the soprano soloist on the first part of the hymn. It make me and the missus tear up. By the way, we bought it at the Pauline bookstore on W. 51st in Manhattan when we visited NYC in late March. I should have PM'd you and asked which Orthodox Churches in Manattan we should have visited - we did see St. Pat's.
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A few to help me keep the proper focus of not worrying about others but about myself: Romans 14 [ usccb.org] ...For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.... Acts 10:28-29 [ biblegateway.com] ...But God hath shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.... And my reminders for why I have faith even in those times it seems less than convenient: Jeremiah 7:3-11 [ biblegateway.com] ...Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.... John 6: 30-70 [ biblegateway.com] This narrative just encapsulates the whole of our faith for me. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Eucharist and the Real Presence. And then the crowning jewel: "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." And a couple of guiding principles: 1 John 3 [ biblegateway.com] ...let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. Proverbs 28:13 [ biblegateway.com] He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.
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