March 2: Leviticus 25:47-27:13; Mark 10:32-52; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 10:22 (King James Version)

Leviticus 25:47-27:13 Listen to Audio

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 ⁴⁷And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

 ⁴⁸After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

 ⁴⁹Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

 ⁵⁰And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

 ⁵¹If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

 ⁵²And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

 ⁵³And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

 ⁵⁴And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

 ⁵⁵For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 26

 ¹Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

 ²Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

 ³If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

 ⁴Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

 ⁵And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

 ⁶And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

 ⁷And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

 ⁸And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

 ⁹For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

 ¹⁰And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

 ¹¹And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

 ¹²And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

 ¹³I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

 ¹⁴But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

 ¹⁵And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

 ¹⁶I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

 ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

 ¹⁸And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

 ¹⁹And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

 ²⁰And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

 ²¹And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

 ²²I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

 ²³And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

 ²⁴Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

 ²⁵And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

 ²⁶And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

 ²⁷And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

 ²⁸Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

 ²⁹And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

 ³⁰And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

 ³¹And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

 ³²And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

 ³³And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

 ³⁴Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

 ³⁵As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

 ³⁶And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

 ³⁷And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

 ³⁸And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

 ³⁹And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

 ⁴⁰If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

 ⁴¹And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

 ⁴²Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

 ⁴³The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

 ⁴⁴And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

 ⁴⁵But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

 ⁴⁶These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 27

 ¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

 ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.

 ³And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

 ⁴And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.

 ⁵And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

 ⁶And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

 ⁷And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

 ⁸But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

 ⁹And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

 ¹⁰He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

 ¹¹And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

 ¹²And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.

 ¹³But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

Mark 10:32-52 Listen to Audio

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 ³²And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

 ³³Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:

 ³⁴And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

 ³⁵And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.

 ³⁶And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

 ³⁷They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

 ³⁸But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

 ³⁹And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

 ⁴⁰But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

 ⁴¹And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.

 ⁴²But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

 ⁴³But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

 ⁴⁴And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

 ⁴⁵For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

 ⁴⁶And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

 ⁴⁷And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

 ⁴⁸And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

 ⁴⁹And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.

 ⁵⁰And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

 ⁵¹And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

 ⁵²And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Psalm 45:1-17 Listen to Audio

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Psalm 45

 ¹My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

 ²Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

 ³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

 ⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

 ⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

 ⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

 ⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

 ⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

 ⁹Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

 ¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

 ¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

 ¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

 ¹³The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

 ¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

 ¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

 ¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

 ¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Proverbs 10:22 Listen to Audio

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 ²²The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

March 1: Leviticus 24-25:46; Mark 10:13-31; Psalm 44:9-26; Proverbs 10:20-21 (King James Version)

Leviticus 24-25:46 Listen to Audio

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Leviticus 24

 ¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 ²Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
 ³Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
 ⁴He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
 ⁵And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
 ⁶And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
 ⁷And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
 ⁸Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
 ⁹And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
 ¹⁰And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
 ¹¹And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
 ¹²And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
 ¹³And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 ¹⁴Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
 ¹⁵And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
 ¹⁶And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
 ¹⁷And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
 ¹⁸And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
 ¹⁹And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
 ²⁰Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
 ²¹And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
 ²²Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
 ²³And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 25

 ¹And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
 ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
 ³Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
 ⁴But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
 ⁵That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
 ⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
 ⁷And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
 ⁸And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
 ⁹Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
 ¹⁰And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
 ¹¹A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
 ¹²For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
 ¹³In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
 ¹⁴And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
 ¹⁵According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
 ¹⁶According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
 ¹⁷Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
 ¹⁸Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
 ¹⁹And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
 ²⁰And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
 ²¹Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
 ²²And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
 ²³The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
 ²⁴And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
 ²⁵If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
 ²⁶And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
 ²⁷Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
 ²⁸But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
 ²⁹And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
 ³⁰And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
 ³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
 ³²Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
 ³³And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
 ³⁴But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
 ³⁵And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
 ³⁶Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
 ³⁷Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
 ³⁸I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
 ³⁹And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
 ⁴⁰But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
 ⁴¹And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
 ⁴²For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
 ⁴³Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
 ⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
 ⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
 ⁴⁶And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

Mark 10:13-31 Listen to Audio

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 ¹³And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
 ¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
 ¹⁵Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
 ¹⁶And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
 ¹⁷And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
 ¹⁸And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
 ¹⁹Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
 ²⁰And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
 ²¹Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
 ²²And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
 ²³And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
 ²⁴And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
 ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
 ²⁶And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?
 ²⁷And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
 ²⁸Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
 ²⁹And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
 ³⁰But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
 ³¹But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

Psalm 44:9-26 Listen to Audio

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 ⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
 ¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
 ¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
 ¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
 ¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
 ¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
 ¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
 ¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
 ¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
 ¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
 ¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
 ²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
 ²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
 ²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
 ²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
 ²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
 ²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
 ²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Proverbs 10:20-21 Listen to Audio

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 ²⁰The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
 ²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Catholic Lesbian denied communion at mother's funeral (videos)

Lesbian denied communion at her mother's funeral. Okay...let me weigh in here. It's complicated- for sure. Priest believes woman is living in sin, on her way to hell, doesn't want to give communion- gotcha.

Woman is grieving. Her mother is dead. She is a Catholic and delivering the eulogy.

Do you administer communion and deny your interpretation of Scripture or move with compassion and let this woman take communion?

It's difficult- for sure- especially since Catholics don't believe that communion is just a "mundane, ritualistic tradition" but the literal body of Christ being translated...Hmmm...

What would Jesus do...

Religion vs. Love

Hmmm...

The right move would have been to address the issue way before the funeral and if the priest had that big of an issue, either not had communion for anyone--or let the woman hold the funeral somewhere else...

Since that didn't happen, I can say the Priest was INEPT in more ways than one...

If the Priest truly felt there was an issue...maybe he could have had her say something before taking communion...like led her in some sort of short prayer that would have appeased his conscience administering it--but even then--I think that's a bit unfair to this poor woman.

Maybe he should have just administered it and let God deal with whatever sin God feels needs to be dealt with (there are plenty more "sins" listed in the Bible.

Either way--to isolate this woman in front of mourners is just plain wrong.

Since he made the mistake by not addressing the issue beforehand, I think he should have kept his mouth shut, given her communion, and said a few Hail Mary's afterward...

He chose religion over love and compassion---and that is never Jesus' way.

Just my .02...

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