We Are Here for You!

A reading from the Book of Wisdom (Chapter 3:1-9) The first wake service I conducted as a deacon was for a 13-year-old boy who had been shot accidentally by a friend. As I prepared for the ritual, I realized that I had to avoid the temptation to tell that boy's family that somehow this was all.

A reading from the Book of Sirach (Chapter 35:12-14, 16-18) Sirach is saying two things at the same time: “The Lord is a God of justice, who knows no favorites” and, “Though not unduly partial to the weak, yet he hears the cry of the oppressed. The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan, nor to.

A reading from the Book of Exodus Chapter 17: 8-13 It seems that Israel was always fighting some foreign power. In the episode described in this passage, it was the Amalekites. The Israelites have a special power: As long as Moses, stationed on a hilltop, holds aloft in his hand the staff of God..