CROWNING WITH THORNS

"...and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger" (Esther 4:16). "...but as it is they seek after a better, that is, a heavenly country" (Hebrews 11:16). "And He Himself was in the stern of the boat, on the cushion asleep. And they woke Him and said to Him, "Master, does it not concern thee that we are perishing?" Then rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind fell and

"And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . " (Acts 7:58). --- Anti-Iranian Sentiment, Directly From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Iranian_sentiment Between the 1920s and the 1960s, some houses in the Rock Creek Hills neighborhood of Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., included anti-Iranian language in racial covenants that were part of property deeds. One deed in Rock Creek Hills declared that homes in t

Loving through Illness: Mental Illness and the Beauty of Suffering - Homiletic & Pastoral Review (October 2025) Suffering Through Mental Illness with God's Love - Catholic Stand - (November 2025) Why do some speak so strongly against mental illness and those who suffer with it? With mental illness as common today as many other illnesses of the body, one questions why there is a negative stigma connected to illnesses of the mind. One's brain is simply another part of the hum

" And she brought forth her firstborn son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, Because there was no room for them in the inn " (Luke 2:7).

"A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment. He have converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me. Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointe

"And hath made of one, all mankind , to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation. That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us . For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring. Being therefore the offspring of God , we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone,