so did job all days​

"...and rising up early offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days." Job 1:5

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And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him

Apocalypse 6: 7

Artwork: Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse

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Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648-1729) Saint Luke Holding a Painting of the Virgin and Child. (1648–1729)

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 The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and caldrons be heated.

These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on. 

 When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan.

2Maccabees 7: 3-5

Artwork: Bible Etienne Harding, Martyrdom of the seven brothers

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Nicholas Roerich, And We See, From the «Sancta» Series

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Agrippa said to Paul,

“You have permission to speak for yourself.”

Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:

 “I think myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews, because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

Acts 26: 1-3

Artwork: W. Gunston, St. Paul’s Defence before Agrippa (19th century)

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The Lord then rained sulfur and fire from the heavens upon Sodom and Gomorrah. 

He destroyed these cities and the entire valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and even the plants in the soil. 

But the wife of Lot looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Artwork: English School, Lots escape from Sodom

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Artwork: Cornelis Engebrechtsz (Dutch, 1461-1527) Christ’s Second Visit to the House of Mary and Martha (c. 1515 - c. 1520)

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Arthur-Joseph Gueniot (French, 1866-1951) Portrait d’une religieuse (1905)

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 Furthermore, on the monthly celebration of the king’s birthday, the Jews were forcibly compelled to partake of the sacrificial victims, and when the festival of Dionysus was celebrated, they were forced to wear wreaths of ivy and to take part in the procession honoring him.

2Maccabees 6: 7

Artwok: Claude Gillot (French, 1673-1722) Celebration in honor of the god Pan

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Traditional Latin Mass, Fifth Sunday after Pentecost June 28, 2026

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace and pursue it: 

Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers: but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

1Peter 3: 10-12 Roman Catholic Daily Missal 1962

Artwork: Francesco Trevisani (Italian, 1656-1746) The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

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E.C. Bridgman, The dream of Calvary (1874)

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He asked,

“What do you see, Amos?”

I replied,

“A basket of ripe fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me:

The time is ripe for my people Israel;     I will never again pardon their offenses.

The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day;     there will be corpses strewn everywhere.

Be silent!

Thus says the Lord God.

Amos 8: 2-3

Artwork: William Blake, The Minotaur, Dante Inferno, Canto XII

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Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.

During the night the Lord caused the sea to move back with a strong east wind, producing dry ground.

The waters split in two.

The children of Israel entered the sea on dry land, while the waters formed a wall on their right and their left.

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and the horsemen of the whole army of Pharaoh.

Not a single one of those who had entered the sea to follow the children of Israel escaped.

Exodus 14: 1-22,28

Artwork: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783 – 1853) Moses opens the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army is flooded (1815)

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But the serpent said to the woman,

“Certainly you shall not die! 

Artwork: Ludwig von Hofmann (German, 1861-1945) Adam and Eve (1897)

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Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669) Study for the Head of St. Michael (1633)

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Albrecht Dürer, The Sudarium

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Joseph said to his brothers,

“Come close to me!”

They approached him, and he said to them,

“I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 

But do not be grieved and do not be angry with yourselves for having sold me down here, for God sent me here before you to save your lives

Genesis 45: 4-6

Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564-1651) Joseph and his Brothers (1595 - 1600)