![]() ![]() “He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant” (Matthew 23:11). For “the last be first, and the first last” (Matthew 20:16). ![]() ![]() “And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant” (Matthew 20:27). “The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord” (Matthew 10:24). We are all servants, called, as our catechism tells us, to “Know, Love and SERVE God.” That requires a foundation of humility. The EIGHT points of the compass: N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, SW meaning the whole world that had to be converted. The EIGHT days given to some purification rituals in the Old Testament. The EIGHT days between Our Lord’s two appearances to the Apostles in the Upper Room after the Resurrection. The EIGHT days of celebration both before and after the time of Christ (called an Octave) The EIGHT souls on Noe’s Ark that were saved from the Great Flood. The EIGHT days that had to pass between birth and circumcision (Genesis 17:12). The EIGHT ancient Breviary or Divine Office prayer times: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline. The number EIGHT brings many spiritual things to mind, here are just a few of them: ![]()
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