Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Mary Magdelene

Taken from today's Catholic Letionary:

Psalm, Chapter 78, Verse 24:

God rained manna upon them for food;

grain from heaven he gave them.

Job Ch. 12 V. 13

With Him are wisdom and might; 

His are counsel and understanding. 

Book of Job Chapters 39 and 40 - The Lord and Job meet

I won't post the whole two chapters here because it is quite long.  But I do encourage you and plead with you to read these two chapters.  It is very revealing about the awesome power and greatness of God.

John 14:25-31 from NABRE

“I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me, but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me. Get up, let us go."

Isaiah 48:10-13 from NABRE

"See, I refined you, but not like silver; 

I tested you in the furnace of affliction. 

For my sake, for my own sake, I do this; 

why should my name be profaned? 

My glory I will not give to another. 

Listen to me, Jacob, 

Israel, whom I called! 

I, it is I who am the first, 

and am I the last. 

Yes, my hand laid the foundations of the earth; 

my right hand spread out the heavens. 

When I summon them, 

they stand forth at once."

NABRE Revelation 12: The Woman and the Dragon

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman  clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.  Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne. The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days.

Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. 

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:  

“Now have salvation and power come, 

and the kingdom of our God 

and the authority of his Anointed. 

For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, 

who accuses them before our God day and night. 

They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb 

and by the word of their testimony; 

love for life did not deter them from death. 

Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, 

and you who dwell in them. 

But woe to you, earth and sea, 

for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, 

for he knows he has but a short time.” 

When the dragon saw that it had been thrown down to the earth, it pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where, far from the serpent, she was taken care of for a year, two years, and a half-year. The serpent, however, spewed a torrent of water out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away with the current. But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth and swallowed the flood that the dragon spewed out of its mouth. Then the dragon became angry with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring, those who keep God’s commandments and bear witness to Jesus. It took its position on the sand of the sea.