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August 23, 2020

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA:

When he says, “I will call my servant Eliakim” (the name Eliakim means resurrection of God), then everyone who is glorious in the house of his father will trust in him [Eliakim]. Yet what is the house of Christ’s Father if not the church? And who are glorious there? Those who put their trust in Christ, and they are not just those who are glorious according to the judgment of this world. On the opposite they may be very small people according to that judgment. But God is just and unprejudiced. He repays everyone according to the measure of their spiritual age [maturity], as in that respect some are fathers yet others are still toddlers, babies and teenagers. read more

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020

Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Rule following is part of human life. Any just society has rules – just ones. The rules and following the rules all have some greater purpose. Any adult member of a community or society has a responsibility to know what the rules of their group are, to follow them, and to realize the potential harm that can be done if they or other members do not follow the rules. They also must understand that no rule is perfect, and if they are Christian the commandment to love others as Jesus Himself loved us is higher than any rule. We don’t have the right to hide behind rules and avoid true and authentic acts of love for our neighbor. Jesus reveals the hidden meaning behind his disciples plucking the grain on the Sabbath. They are the priests of the new covenant and they must feed on the true bread to offer fitting worship to God on the Sabbath. After all, the Sabbath was made for man to worship and listen to God – that’s the first purpose of the Sabbath. Relaxing from work on the Sabbath is meant to allow us to find true rest in God: for this we must do the things that He has told us are important, not simply refrain from the things we think are important. read more

July 16, 2020

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

What is the rest Jesus talks about in today’s Gospel? We know that rest is what happens when movement stops. Taking up a yoke or bearing a burden certainly does not imply physically stopping – the load must be carried all the way to the destination. The rest that Jesus is talking about cannot be the rest of stopping and taking a break – it can’t be something physical. The rest, He explains, is rest “for the soul.” That means our souls endure a kind of motion or movement that Jesus wants to stop. Interior movements can cause a kind of exhaustion that Jesus wants to eliminate. Faith, on the one hand, gives us rest from the interior motivations that would move us in meaningless and exhausting directions. On the other hand, faith impels us to continue moving towards our final destination with Jesus. read more

Daily Readings

Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
by USCCB on November 23, 2024 at 9:30 am
Reading Rv 11:4-12 I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me: Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain. They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of their prophesying. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish. When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will wage war against them and conquer them and kill them. Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified. Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried. The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and be glad and exchange gifts because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth. But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their feet, great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, “Come up here.” So they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies looked on. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 144:1, 2, 9-10 R. (1b) Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!Blessed be the LORD, my rock,who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!My mercy and my fortress,my stronghold, my deliverer,My shield, in whom I trust,who subdues my people under me.R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!O God, I will sing a new song to you;with a ten stringed lyre I will chant your praise,You who give victory to kings,and deliver David, your servant from the evil sword.R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock! Alleluia See 2 Tm 1:10 R. Alleluia, alleluia. Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel. R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel Lk 20:27-40 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.” And they no longer dared to ask him anything. Readings for the Optional Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, priest and martyrReadings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Columban, abbotReadings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Clement I, pope and martyr - - - 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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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

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