The Inner Room- Emotions in the Bible

Gen 23 - The span of Sarah’s life was one hundred and twenty-seven years. She died in Kiriatharba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham performed the customary mourning rites for her. Then he left the side of his dead one and addressed the Hittites: “Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a piece of property for a burial ground, that I may bury my dead...

genesis 21: 5 Abraham has Isaac at 100. Psalm 34 - the Lord hears the cry of the poor Mat 8 - Jesus helps 2 demoniacs

Reading I Acts 12:1-11 In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword, and when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he proceeded to arrest Peter also. –It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.– He had him taken into custody and put in prison under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each. He intende...

Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr Lectionary: 377 Reading I Gn 18:16-33 Abraham and the men who had visited him by the Terebinth of Mamre set out from there and looked down toward Sodom; Abraham was walking with them, to see them on their way. The LORD reflected: “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, now that he is to become a great and populous nation, and all the nations...

Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. For he fashioned all things that they might have being;  But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who belong to his company experience it. Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. O LORD, you brought me up from the netherworld; You c...

Is 49 - from my mother’s womb you knew me /Psalm 139 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. /Acts 13 behold one who os coming after me /Luke 1 :66 the child grew strong in spirit

I fear not, God is my shield. Gen 15:1. Psalm 105 the Lord remembers His covenant forever Mat 7, by our fruits we shall be known

Reading I Gn 12:1-9 The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” Abram wen...

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/job/38?1 Jesus asleep in a stormy sea wales up to say “Why are you afraid?” He is living proof of Psalm 117 - They cried to the LORD in their distress; from their straits he rescued them, He hushed the storm to a gentle breeze, and the billows of the sea were stilled. The Lord spoke to Job about calming the seas. And to Paul about being made anew in God. Let us rejoic...

Reading I 2 Cor 11:1-11 Brothers and sisters: If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me! Please put up with me. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere and pure commitment to Chri...

Reading I 2 Cor 9:6-11 Brothers and sisters, consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundanc...

Reading I 2 Cor 8:1-9 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For according to their means, I can testify, and beyond their means, spontaneously, they begged us insistently for the favo...

Reading I 2 Cor 6:1-10 Brothers and sisters: As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contr...

Reading I Ez 17:22-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. It shall put forth branches and bear fruit, and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind shall dwell beneath it, every winged thing in the shade of its boughs...

Gospel Lk 2:41-51 Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relati...

Reading I Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9 Thus says the LORD: When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms; I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I stooped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer. My heart is overwhelme...

We continue in second Corinthians and today Paul explains the importance of lifting the veil so that we can gaze upon the face of the Lord. Psalm 85 puts us into the presence of God gazing upon his face. In Matthew 5, the Lord tells us to lift the veil of our hearts, our unforgiveness, before we come to the altar.

Reading I 2 Cor 3:4-11 Brothers and sisters: Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry of death, c...

Reading I 2 Cor 1:18-22 Brothers and sisters: As God is faithful, our word to you is not “yes” and “no.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not “yes” and “no,” but “yes” has been in him. For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him; therefore, the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory. But the one who g...

Matthew 5 - the Beatitudes 2 Corn1- encourage like God does - Ps 34- Taste and See the goodness of God

Exodus 24:3 to 8 Moses reads aloud from the book of the covenant and offers sacrifice on an altar / Psalm 116: I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord/ Heb 9:11-15 He entered once and for all into the Sanctuary by His blood / Mark 14: This is my Body and Blood

Psalm 112, the heart of the just one is firm, trusting in the Lord / Mark 12: 13 give to God what is God’s

Zeph 3:14 - shout for joy / Rom 12: 10 Be fervent in spirit / Psalm Is 12 / Luke 1: Mary sets out in haste to help Elisabeth for 3 months

Deut 4, 32 - You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever. Psalm 33 - Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own - Rom 8, 14 - you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” Mat 28, 20 - All power...

Sirach 51 - I will seek wisdom til the end Psalm 19 - The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart - Mark 11- by what authority do you do these things?