Monthly archives: March, 2026

Polycarp

March 30, 2026 testadmin

I saw the martyr at the stake.
The flames could not his courage shake,
Nor death his soul appall;
I asked him whence his strength was given,
He looked triumphantly to heaven,
And answered, “Christ is all.”

anonymous

“Eighty and six years have I served Christ,
nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then,
could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?….I
bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day
and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs
and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.”

Born AD 69 Died AD 155

Commit Your Way

March 28, 2026 testadmin

Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Psalm 37:5

Faith is the courage of the spirit which projects itself forward, sure
of finding the truth.

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

The Surf

March 27, 2026 testadmin

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37

“The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces
in the surf-rider a super-joy of going clean through it.
Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things-tribulation,
distress, persecution, produce in us the super- joy; they are not things
to fight. We are more than conquerors through Him in all these things, not
in spite of them, but in the midst of them…

Undaunted radiance is not
built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can alter.
The experiences of life, terrible or monotonous, are impotent to touch the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers Published by Barbour and Company, Inc. p.67.

 

 

Of God

March 17, 2026 testadmin

May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us,
may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be
always ours this day and for evermore.

St Patrick of Ireland

What Have I Done?

March 14, 2026 testadmin

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“ ‘When men fall down, do they not get up?
When a man turns away, do they not return?

Why then have these people turned away? …
They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
I have listened attentively, but they do not
say what is right.

No one repents of his wickedness, saying,
“What have I done?” Each pursues his own course
like a horse charging into battle.”

Jeremiah 8: 4-6