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August 16, 2018

Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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How much more is it necessary, he shows, that pardon be returned by us without measure or number. And we should not think how many times we forgive, but we should cease to be angry with those who sin against us, as often as the occasion for anger exists. Pardon’s frequency shows us that in our case there is never a time for anger, since God pardons us for all sins in their entirety by his gift rather than by our merit. Nor should we be excused from the requirement of giving pardon that number of times [i.e., seventy times seven], since through the grace of the gospel God has granted us pardon without measure. read more

August 14, 2018August 13, 2018

Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr

St. Maximilian Kolbe – Sketch by Brie Schulze

Saint Maximilian Kolbe is a tremendous example of how God’s grace can move us to acts of love for our brothers. With all the extraordinary things Fr. Kolbe did during his life – his extraordinary leadership, the extraordinary impact he had on the Catholic world in a terrible moment of persecution, spreading the devotion to the Immaculata, etc – he was still able to see the true value of his life. He did not consider himself more important or more deserving to remain alive than any of the other prisoners in Auschwitz. With all the wonderful things he had accomplished, and all the wonderful works he could still do for the Lord, God’s grace permitted him to see that the ultimate value of his life was only to be found in laying it down for someone else. read more

August 12, 2018August 11, 2018

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

We have a tendency to exaggerate the virtue of the Holy men and women who went before us. While we must certainly say that the Canonized Saints exhibited heroic virtue, that does not mean they were not also sinners like us in need of a savior. In fact, had the Saints not needed a savior, they would not even be Christian. God’s grace works hiddenly within us to perfect what He wants to perfect in us so long as we cooperate with His work. Sometimes we may be distressed to witness the lack of perfection or even the apparent total lack of goodness in our hearts and in our lives. This too is the work of grace, inviting us to allow God to do His work within us. The ups and downs of our spiritual and human life can lead us to a point near hopelessness – this is something even Elijah the Holy Prophet of God experienced. He was ready to throw in the towel, to give up and die. He saw how much of a poor sinner he was and how he “was no better than his fathers.” God responds to this sadness and exhaustion not with a new teaching or with a rebuke, but with something very simple: food. read more

Daily Readings

Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
by USCCB on July 10, 2025 at 8:30 am
Reading 1 Genesis 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5 Judah approached Joseph and said: "I beg you, my lord, let your servant speak earnestly to my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are the equal of Pharaoh. My lord asked your servants, 'Have you a father, or another brother?' So we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a young brother, the child of his old age. This one's full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by that mother who is left, his father dotes on him.' Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me that my eyes may look on him. Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you shall not come into my presence again.' When we returned to your servant our father, we reported to him the words of my lord. "Later, our father told us to come back and buy some food for the family. So we reminded him, 'We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.' Then your servant our father said to us, 'As you know, my wife bore me two sons. One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since. If you now take this one away from me, too, and some disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to the nether world in grief.'" Joseph could no longer control himself in the presence of all his attendants, so he cried out, "Have everyone withdraw from me!" Thus no one else was about when he made himself known to his brothers. But his sobs were so loud that the Egyptians heard him, and so the news reached Pharaoh's palace. "I am Joseph," he said to his brothers. "Is my father still in good health?" But his brothers could give him no answer, so dumbfounded were they at him. "Come closer to me," he told his brothers. When they had done so, he said: "I am your brother Joseph, whom you once sold into Egypt. But now do not be distressed, and do not reproach yourselves for having sold me here. It was really for the sake of saving lives that God sent me here ahead of you." Responsorial Psalm Psalm 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21 R. (5a) Remember the marvels the Lord has done. or: R. Alleluia. When the LORD called down a famine on the land and ruined the crop that sustained them, He sent a man before them, Joseph, sold as a slave. R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done. or: R. Alleluia. They had weighed him down with fetters, and he was bound with chains, Till his prediction came to pass and the word of the LORD proved him true. R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done. or: R. Alleluia. The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free. He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions. R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done. or: R. Alleluia. Alleluia Mark 1:15 R. Alleluia, alleluia. The Kingdom of God is at hand: repent and believe in the Gospel. R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel Matthew 10:7-15 Jesus said to his Apostles: "As you go, make this proclamation: 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. Do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts; no sack for the journey, or a second tunic, or sandals, or walking stick. The laborer deserves his keep. Whatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it, and stay there until you leave. As you enter a house, wish it peace. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; if not, let your peace return to you. Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words— go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town." - - - Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Neither this work nor any part of it may be reproduced, distributed, performed or displayed in any medium, including electronic or digital, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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