If you want a sense of the danger of prayer, just listen to Jeremiah: "You seduced me Lord, and I let myself be seduced" ( ...
The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch ... quoted extensively from the Septuagint, e.g. Matt. 1:23. The Septuagint became the OT of the early Church.
Be all of you subject to one another (1 Peter 5:5), having your conduct blameless ... it is held most certainly that they were written by Jesus Sirach. They must, however, be accounted among ...
This past academic year has had its challenges, but it has also been enormously rewarding. Smith students, even on Zoom, showed themselves to be incredibly smart and engaged, and my courses felt ...