Moving on to the end of the long list of prophetic books, I have arrived at Malachy’s short work, which was a later prophecy of the second Temple period, after the return from exile in Babylon. This is the pre-eminent Messianic prophecy. In the very first chapter, we hear of the malignancy of the HebrewContinue reading “Reading through the Prophecy of Malachi (aka. Malachias)”
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Reading through the Book of Nechemyah (aka. Nehemiah, and II Esdras)
So, we’re back at the tail-end of the sixth century before Christ, and Jewish companies are returning to Juda and Jerusalem from exile all over the Persian empire, but especially from Babylon. We looked at some of these groups in the book of Ezra, and the second Temple had been erected and the city revived.Continue reading “Reading through the Book of Nechemyah (aka. Nehemiah, and II Esdras)”
Surviving remnants (Sunday IV of Lent)
Our religion is one of resurrection, and if we look down the history of the people of God, first in Scripture and then in Church history, we find that with every great destruction of the people a small remnant survives in faith and devotion and becomes prosperous again. We’ve heard of the proverb that historyContinue reading “Surviving remnants (Sunday IV of Lent)”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 