Tagged: Prayer Intention

“I plead with you, then, as a prisoner for the Lord, to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” –Ephesians 4:1 Are you on a job that’s not just a waste of time but even immoral? You may not be a a human-trafficker or a member of a crime syndicate, but does what you produce, package, or sell distract or turn people from Christ? Life is too short to waste it working for perishable food (see Jn 6:27). Eternity is too long to live for self rather than for Christ. Jesus did not die on the cross...

“What you desire you do not obtain, and so you resort to murder.” —James 4:2 In the beginning of the book of Wisdom, a group of people decided to beset, revile, and torture a just man (Wis 2:12, 19). They planned to “condemn him to a shameful death” (Wis 2:20). This group opposing the just man believed there was no life after death, “for haphazard were we born, and hereafter we shall be as though we had not been” (Wis 2:2). Therefore, they decided to “eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” (1 Cor 15:32) Today, we call this group...

“I charge you to keep God’s command without blame or reproach until our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear. This appearance God will bring to pass at His chosen time.” —1 Timothy 6:14-15 St. Paul said: “I have a solemn charge to give you, Timothy, my child” (1 Tm 1:18). He charged St. Timothy to be fully aware that Jesus could return at any time, and to preach the Word of God accordingly. “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, Who is coming to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingly power, I...