Daily Romans etc in 2024

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:      Oh, rejoice, all Christians, loudly,      For our joys have now begun;      Wondrous things our God has done.      Tell abroad his goodness proudly,      Who our race has honored so,      That he lives with us below.           Joy, oh, joy beyond all gladness,           Christ has done away with sadness!           Hence all sorrow and refining,           For the Sun of grace is shining!      See, my soul, your Savior chooses      Poverty and weakness, too;      In such love he comes to you.      Neither crib nor cross refuses,      All he suffers for your good      To redeem you by...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:      What child is this who, laid to rest,      On Mary's lap is sleeping?      Whom angels greet With anthems sweet      While shepherds watch are keeping?      This, this is Christ the King,      Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.      Haste, haste to bring him laud, The babe, the Son of Mary!      Why lies he in such mean estate      Where oxen now are feeding?      Good Christians, fear; For sinners here      The silent Word is pleading.      Nails, spear shall pierce him through;      The cross he'll bear for me, for you.      Hail, hail the Word made flesh, The babe, the Son of Mary!       So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh;    ...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:      What child is this who, laid to rest,      On Mary's lap is sleeping?      Whom angels greet With anthems sweet      While shepherds watch are keeping?      This, this is Christ the King,      Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.      Haste, haste to bring him laud, The babe, the Son of Mary!      Why lies he in such mean estate      Where oxen now are feeding?      Good Christians, fear; For sinners here      The silent Word is pleading.      Nails, spear shall pierce him through;      The cross he'll bear for me, for you.      Hail, hail the Word made flesh, The babe, the Son of Mary!       So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh;    ...

  5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for today:      Of the Father's love begotten      ere the worlds began to be,      he is Alpha and Omega,      he the source, the ending he,      of the things that are, that have been,      and that future years shall see      evermore and evermore.     O h, that birth forever blessed      when the virgin, full of grace,      by the Holy Ghost conceiving,      bore the Savior of our race,      and the babe, the world's Redeemer,      first revealed his sacred face      evermore and evermore.      This is he whom seers and sages      sang of old with one accord,      whom the voices of the prophets      promised in their faithf...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:      O come, O come, Immanuel,      and ransom captive Israel      that mourns in lonely exile here      until the Son of God appear.      Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall come to you, O Israel.     O come, O Branch of Jesse's stem,      unto your own and rescue them!      From depths of hell your people save,      and give them victory o'er the grave.      Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall come to you, O Israel.      O come, O Key of David, come      and open wide our heavenly home.      Make safe for us the heavenward road      and bar the way to death's abode.       Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall ...

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024 Our opening prayer for this week:      O come, O come, Immanuel,      and ransom captive Israel      that mourns in lonely exile here      until the Son of God appear.      Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall come to you, O Israel.      O come, O Wisdom from on high,      who ordered all things mightily;      to us the path of knowledge show      and teach us in its ways to go.      Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall come to you, O Israel.      O come, O come, great Lord of might,      who to your tribes on Sinai's height      in ancient times did give the law      in cloud and majesty and awe.      Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel      shall come to...