Reflections in Christ

Psalm 43

Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me,

let them bring me to thy holy hill
 and to thy dwelling!
Psalm 43:3 (Transfiguration, entrance hymn)

In reading the account in Saint Luke’s Gospel, in which Christ healed ten lepers, we learn how only one leper - and a Samaritan at that - returned to Him to offer thanks:  “Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed,  turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving Him…

Psalm 42

As a deer longs 
for flowing streams,
 so longs my soul
 for thee, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
(Psalm 42:1)

Psalm 41

Blessed is the man who cares for the poor and the weak
(Psalm 41:1)

Care for the poor is a constant theme in the…

Psalm 40 and Nelson Mandela

Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired,

but a body hast thou prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure.

Psalm 39

I said I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue
(Psalm 39:1)

Saint Nikolai Velimirovich (1881-1956), or Saint Nikolai…

When Joseph first saw the mighty wonder, he thought he saw only a human child wrapped in swaddling clothes.  But from all that came to pass, he discovered the Child to be the True God Who grants the world great mercy!  [Vespers of the Prefeast of the Nativity]

Christmas tells the same wonderful story…

Psalm 38

Do not forsake me, O Lord!
 O my God, be not far from me!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
(Psalm 38: 21-22)

Psalm 37

“The Lord guides a man safely in the way he should go” (Ps 37:23).

Saint Innocent of Alaska left behind this verse as a theme for the sermon to be preached…

In a piece published in the Telegraph at www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10458380/Christianity-at-risk-of-dying-out-in-a-generation-warns-Lord-Carey.html, we learn that a former…