Thursday of the First Week in ADVENT

Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1,8,9,19-21,25-27a; Mt 7:21,24-27:  In Psalm 116 we pray, “I trusted even when I said, ‘I am sorely afflicted,’ and when I said in my alarm, ‘there is no man I can trust’” Betrayal, malicious or unintended, is the most painful human experience.  The Lord Jesus knew this disappointment among his closest friends.  […]