"Who is my mother and who are my brothers? And he pointed his hand to his disciples and said, Behold my mother, and behold my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother and my sister and my mother." (Matthew 12:48-50)


Are You Preparing?


"Be observant for the sake of your own life. Do no permit your lamps to be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ready, for you do not know the hour in which our Lord will come.

But you shall assemble yourselves as often as possible, seeking all the things which are befitting to your souls: for the whole time of your faith will not be of benefit to you if you are not perfected in The Way by the last day.

For in the last days many false prophets and many who are causing corruption shall be multiplied, and some of the sheep shall be turned into wolves, and the love of some shall be turned into hate; for when lawlessness increases, they shall hate and persecute and betray one another, and then shall appear the evil one and claim to be the 'Son of God', and he shall perform signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands, and he shall do unlawful things which have never yet come to pass since the beginning.

Then all humankind shall come into the fire of trial, and many shall be made to stumble and shall perish; but those who endure in their faith shall be saved from under the curse itself. And then shall appear the signs of the truth: first, the sign of an outspreading in heaven, then the sign of the sound of the trumpet.

And third, the resurrection of the dead, yet not of all, but as it is said: 'The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him.' Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven." (Didache 16:1-12)