David Sandel

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Fourth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The hopes and fears of all the years Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. Perhaps the soldiers of Herod were coming over...

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Feast of St. John, Apostle and evangelist Third Day of Christmas First Day of Kwanzaa Grandma Dot’s 99th birthday (Margaret’s mom) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Celebrate They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter. He saw the burial cloths there, and the...

Monday, December 26, 2022 Second Day of Christmas Feast of St. Stephen Boxing Day in Great Britain (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Page and monarch forth they went Stephen, on the day of his death: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right...

Sunday, December 25, 2022 Christmas Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The irrepressible confidence of Christmas The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. Two thousand adults and children filled...

Saturday, December 24, 2022 Christmas Eve Last Day of Advent (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) There is no room In the night the Lord awakened Nathan and spoke to him, “Go and tell my servant David, “Should you build me a house to dwell in?” And now we reach the...

Friday, December 23, 2022 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Christmas is almost here She gave birth to a son. Her friends and relatives rejoiced with her. His mother said, “He will be called John. Then they asked his father what he wished him to be named. He asked for a...

Thursday, December 22, 2022 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) God of a thousand years Two wonderful women speak of God’s love for us today. First, Samuel’s mother Hannah: The Lord puts to death and gives life; he casts down to the nether world; he raises up again. The Lord makes...

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) If my eye is simple Mary traveled to the Hill Country in haste and entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.  When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting the infant leaped in her womb. “Where two or three are gathered, there am...

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Welcome, please come in The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. Gabriel’s directions didn’t...

Monday, December 19, 2022 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Let the words of my mouth An angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah’s wife and said to her, “Though you are barren and have had no children, yet you will conceive a bear a son. And this boy is to...