I will not leave you comfortless. – John 14:18. Thus spake the departing Savior to His grieving disciples.  How, then, would He not leave them comfortless?  “If ye love Me, keep My commandments,” He said first (John 14:15). He that …

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“If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it“. — John 14:14. Jesus instilled His despondent disciples with courage in that night by giving them a great and sure promise. He said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, …

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“He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father”. – John 14:9. Jesus wanted to comfort His disciples because of His departure. He therefore said to them: “If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also; and …

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“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” – John 14:6. What terror must have seized upon the disciples, the poor sheep, that night in which their Lord was betrayed. …

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– Ash Wednesday – As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death till He come. — 1 Corinthians 11:26. As they were eating, when the paschal meal was about over, Jesus …

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Lord, is it I? – Matthew 26:22 Now they ate the Passover. And after the blessing, Jesus broke the bread for His disciples. And He also took the cup, and gave thanks, and said: “Take this and divide it among yourselves, …

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If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. – John 13:17. On Thursday morning, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: “Where wilt Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Passover?” (Matthew 26:17). And He …

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Note: Quinquagesima is the Sunday before Lent. The word means fiftieth, denoting some fifty days before Easter. For a truth against Thy Holy Child Jesus … were they gathered together, for to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined …

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And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said unto His disciples, “Ye know that after two days is the Feast of the Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified.” — Matthew …

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