“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus covered in sores, who would gladly have eaten his ...
A new settlement, which will probably be named after Chief Rabbi Herzog, was formally dedicated today on the site of the birthplace of the prophet Amos. An advance party, including twenty youths who ...
A Situation That Can Be Changed Only by Prayer & Fasting – Fr. James Lloyd, C.S.P., at The Catholic World Report +1 A Warning From The Prophet Amos Explains a Lot of Our Current Decline – Msgr.
In today’s first reading, we are introduced to one of the great characters of the Old Testament, a layman called Amos, farmer turned prophet. Amos came from a small village in the hill country of ...
What can we learn from a prophet who spoke God’s word to his generation almost 3,000 years ago? Amos has a lot to teach us, consistent with what God told Moses about holiness and the heart of Jesus’s ...
More than 2,800 years ago the prophet Amos lived in the land of Israel. This was a time when elites governed the land, when the establishment had lost touch with the common folk and few people trusted ...