“Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that ...

As noted last Sunday, the Church offers two possible Gospels for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent. That’s because, although the Sunday readings are on a three-year cycle, the “scrutiny” ...

Find today’s readings here. For Christians, reading the Old Testament in light of the New Testament is sometimes almost like a game: Where is Jesus hiding? How is Jesus prefigured this time, in a ...

The book of Numbers in the Bible (Chapter 20) tells the story of an unusual plague that attacked the Israelites in the desert after they had left Egypt. They were attacked by a large number of snakes.

And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” — Numbers 21:8 The other day I was talking with someone who drew a ...

During their wilderness wanderings, the people of Israel often grumbled. They grumbled against Moses and Aaron. Really, they grumbled against the Lord since Moses and Aaron were His spokesmen. An ...