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Do We Still Need Angels?

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If you come from a traditional Catholic background one of the prayers you learned as a child was this: Angel of God, my guardian dear, / to whom God’s love commits me here, / ever this day be at my side, / to light and guard, to rule and guide. / Amen. This is the Read More
Moses

Glory in the Bible and Priests

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After destroying the golden calf, Moses returns to the top of Mount Sinai and asks the Lord, “Please let me see your glory!” (Ex 33:18). The Lord, so testy earlier in the chapter, does not object but responds eagerly: “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name, ‘LORD,’ Read More
Lamb of God

Mercy’s Many Meanings

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Mercy flows like a great river out of the Old Testament into the New, where it overflows its banks. The word “mercy” appears in the New American Bible Revised Edition (2010) 296 times in the Old Testament and another 43 times in the New Testament. Like the Mississippi, which gathers its water from various tributaries, Read More