“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you; I have made you and I will carry you.” (Is 46:4) Forgotten. That’s what more than one elderly person has felt and oftentimes when you visit a nursing home, it’s a...
Naked Jesus. It’s very much a likely reality that at the ultimate humiliation of the cross Jesus was naked. In fact, I remember walking through what felt like miles in the Vaticanto get to the Sistine Chapel, I rounded a corner and was horrified. I instantly...
I’m amazed at the strength found in the women of Luke. We open with Elizabeth who was the shame of the village for her barrenness yet did not waver in her love and devotion to the Lord. Then we get to Mary who believed that what the Lord said to her would be...
I find myself thanking God on my knees for men like Simeon. Seriously. He was a radical lover of the Lord and walked with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was upon him in radical ways. And why wouldn’t He be? Simeon honored the Lord. He was righteous and...
By Robert Velarde Jesus and Prayer Jesus prayed for others. In Matthew 19:13, we read, “Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them.” Despite the fact that “the disciples rebuked those who brought...
