Quote of the Day (Isaiah, on Salvation “To the End of the Earth’)

“I will give you as a light to the nations,

    that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” –Isaiah 49:6 (New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition)

Quote of the Day (Book of Isaiah, on a ‘Victory for Justice’)

“I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I   

   have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as 

   a covenant of the people, a light for the nations,

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from 

   confinement, and from the dungeon, Those who live in  

   darkness.”—Isaiah 42: 6-7

(This detail of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel shows the prophet Isaiah.)