Day 253: Lamentations of Jeremiah (2023)

Today, Fr. Mike discusses the confidence that faith in God can provide as we fight the battles of our lives. He also engages with the riddles found in Wisdom 10 and points out that we can now not only understand the characters, stories, and allusions of Scripture, but can recogni ...  Show more

Fr. Mike draws our attention to the descriptions of wisdom found in our readings for today and reflects on the beauty of wisdom’s feminine nature. He also discusses the death of Antiochus Epiphanes and offers two perspectives on reconciling God’s role in suffering. Today’s readin ...  Show more

Featuring: Why study the difficult chapters in the Bible? Lamenting VS. Complaining in Scripture How to use a passage like Psalm 88 in counseling Chapters of lament provide prayers for our suffering Notes: When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God a ...  Show more

Lamentations 1–2 Lamentations 1–2 (Listen) How Lonely Sits the City 1   How lonely sits the city     that was full of people!   How like a widow has she become,     she who was great among the nations!   She who was a princess among the provinces     has become a slave. 2   She w ...  Show more

Friends, our first reading for this weekend is from the twentieth chapter of Jeremiah. There is so much spiritual wisdom in Jeremiah, but more than any of the other prophets, we come to know his personality and his life. And in this passage, all the texture of being a prophet ...