Quote/s of the Day – 16 February – Readings: Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10, Psalms 29:1 and 2, 3-4, 3 and 9-10, Mark 8:14-21
Sacred Scripture – A Light for our Path
“Do you not yet understand or comprehend?
Are your hearts hardened?”
Mark 8:17
“O KEY OF DAVID,
and Sceptre of the House of Israel,
who opens and no-one shuts,
who shuts and no-one opens.
Come and bring forth
the captive from his prison,
he who sits in darkness
and in the shadow of death.”
O Lord,
You have given us Your word
for a light to shine upon our path,
grant us so to meditate on that word
and follow its teaching,
that we may find in it,
the light that shines more and more
until the perfect day.
Amen
“Let sleep find you holding your Bible
and when your head nods,
let it be resting on the sacred page.”
St Jerome (343-420)
“The Man of the Bible”
Father and Doctor of the Church
“Jesus, open the eyes of my heart,
that I may hear Your word
and understand and do Your will.
Open the eyes of my mind
to the understanding
of Your Gospel teachings.
Speak to me the hidden
and secret things of Your wisdom.
Enlighten my mind and understanding
with the light of Your knowledge,
not only to cherish those things
that are written
but to do them.
Amen”
St John Chrysostom (347-407)
Father and Doctor
“The Sacred Scriptures grow
with the one who reads them.”
St Pope Gregory the Great (540-604)
“Father of the Fathers” and Doctor of the Church
“All who ask receive, those who seek find
and to those who knock it shall be opened.
Therefore, let us knock
at the beautiful garden of Scripture.
It is fragrant, sweet and blooming
with various sounds of spiritual
and divinely inspired birds.
They sing all around our ears,
capture our hearts,
comfort the mourners,
pacify the angry
and fill us with everlasting joy.”
St John Damascene (676-749)
Father and Doctor of the Church
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