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Tuesday after Sexagesima Sunday

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:1- (NKJV)   11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.   2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth.   3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves…

Monday after Sexagesima Sunday

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 50:4-10 (NKJV)   50:4 “The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned.   5 “The Lord God has opened…

Saturday after Septuagesima Sunday

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Proverbs 14:21-31 (NKJV)   14:21 He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.   22 Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.   23 In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads…

Festival of the Presentation of our Lord and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Judges 7:1-8 (NKJV)   7:7 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.   2 And the Lord…

Thursday after Septuagesima Sunday

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Jeremiah 1:4-10 (NKJV)   1:4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:   5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”   6 Then said I:   “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot…

Wednesday after Septuagesima Sunday

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:16-19 (NKJV)   26:16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His…

Tuesday after Septuagesima Sunday

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Isaiah 5:1-7 (NKJV)   5:5 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved a song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard:   “My Well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.   2 “He dug it up and cleared out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in…

Monday after Septuagesima Sunday

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Joshua 1:1-9 (NKJV)   1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: 2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which…

Saturday after the Transfiguration of our Lord

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:12-22 (NKJV)   1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. 13 For we are not writing any other things to you…

Festival of St. Titus, Bishop and Confessor

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. Matthew 13:44-52 (NKJV)   13:44 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.   45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful…