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Be a GOOD SAMARITAN in today's world !
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Please spare a prayer for our youth from all over Malaysia who will be making the journey today to Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day. Please pray for mercy and safety for their trip and may they have a fruitful encounter with God! Amen and thank you!   Official website: http://www.krakow2016.com/en/ |
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Take and Read!
Catholics have often been the brunt of jokes when it comes to the Bible. We’re often perceived as having pristine new Bibles still unwrapped and lying untouched in our cabinets. We consider it ‘sacrilegious’ to ‘blemish’ the Bible by underlining or highlighting the verses. We’re unable to match the ability of our Christian brethren in quoting Bible verses off the top of our head. Many are still unsure how many books there are in the Bible. Some are still wondering whether the stories in the Bible are factual/ historical or metaphorical. Still others say that it’s not easy to understand the Bible. And there are those who fear that too much reading would lead to them to interpret the Bible differently from what the Church teaches and subsequently lead them astray from the Catholic Church. It’s not wrong then to say that many people shy away from reading the Bible out of fear, ignorance or mere apathy. However, there are also those to make the effort to read and understand but somehow get lost along the way because it becomes dry and at times “technical”.  St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) when speaking about his conversion told that it was prompted by a childlike voice he heard saying, “Tolle legge. Take and read! Take and read!” which he took as a divine command to open the Bible and read the words of Scripture which transformed his life and brought him to a true and constant conversion. Our individual Catholic lives and the life of our Church would be infinitely improved if more of us took Bible reading seriously. Today there are many resources available online that provides proper guidance on how to read and understand the Bible. Many parishes offer Bible study classes and programmes. However, the most common excuse we hear is ‘I don’t have time’. And there are others who justify by saying that if they follow the Mass readings for the 3-year liturgical calendar, they would have read/listened to the entire (or almost entire) Bible. So once again the Bible finds itself sitting atop a shelf in the cabinet, spotless and untouched. Our own official teachings encourage us to read, study and learn the Scriptures. Dei Verbum – a document about God’s Word from Second Vatican Council says, “…all clergy should remain in close contact with the Scriptures by means of reading and accurate study of the text …similarly the Council earnestly and expressly calls upon all the faithful …to acquire by frequent reading of holy Scripture the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:8) for as St. Jerome said, ‘Ignorance of the Scriptures is indeed ignorance of Christ.’” In the past, it was considered that Scripture study belonged to the domain of the clergy only. More and more today, there has been a renewed interest among the laity to understand the word of God and that is why there is a whole array of Bible study programmes being made available. Whether it is Bible in One Hundred Weeks, The Bible Timeline, Little Rock, and others, these are meant not just to provide intellectual knowledge but to inspire a greater love for the word of God and ultimately a love for God. So whatever our excuse, we need to understand the Scriptures better to see how our faith is rooted and grounded in the Bible. Perhaps it is about time stop finding excuses and open our ears to hear the children singing, “Tolle legge. Take and read! Take and read!” Source: http://clarence.my/?p=968 |
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Hahaha!!! ... Polish nuns of the Dominican Order doing a flash mob ahead of World Youth Day, in Krakow Poland!!! Cool!!! You go sisters!!! ...
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The True Reason for the Greatness of St. Mary Magdalene
 It takes a lot of passion to be a great sinner. It takes even more passion, and a hefty dose of courage, to be a great lover. Mary Magdalene was both. The Church honors her as a saint because she allowed the power of God’s merciful love to invade the depths of her wounded heart and transform it. In fact, she has so much to teach us that this year Pope Francis elevated her liturgical memorial to a feast. We know she started out as a great sinner because St. Luke tells us Jesus cast seven demons out of her (Lk. 8:2). St. Gregory the Great believed those seven devils symbolized the seven capital sins, meaning every conceivable kind of sin. Yet once she encountered the healing love of Christ, Mary Magdalene became arguably the greatest lover the world has ever known, second only to Jesus and His mother. Just look at the gospel of St. John, who relates, first, that Mary was one of the few who stood the death watch at the foot of the cross on Good Friday. Then on Easter Sunday, John tells us “Mary stood weeping outside the tomb” (Jn. 20:11). The tomb lay empty, the body of Christ apparently stolen by enemies. The apostles Peter and John saw—and then walked away, bewildered and shocked. It’s clear that Mary Magdalene loved Jesus, but the profound courage of her love in this moment tends to go unnoticed. We all love the idea of loving Christ passionately, and even of giving Him our lives in return for His saving death for us. Something resonates deep within every soul at the idea of having a profound relationship with God, even if so often we let our hearts wander off after other things instead. But how many of us are willing to keep on loving Him when it seems we’re not going to get anything out of it? Mary loved Jesus so much that when the other apostles left the empty tomb, apparently thinking as any logical person would that they could do nothing more, she stayed put. Certainly, like the rest of His followers, she was reeling from the shock of so much grief in such a short space of time. Yet she loved her Lord too much to walk away, even when it seemed that all hope was gone—even the scant comfort of giving the corpse a decent anointing for burial. Mary Magdalene stayed outside the empty tomb because she loved Jesus for Himself, not for what she got out of the relationship. I’ve always been struck—and admittedly a bit frightened—by the raw quality of Mary Magdalene’s love. She let herself be vulnerable in her love for the Lord, and perhaps that’s why He had such a special place for her in His heart. Because that’s how He loves each of us: He lets us wound Him and even kill Him in His incredible desire to be close to us. Mary was not afraid to stand and stay in the place where love hurt the most, because she was willing to be vulnerable with her Lord, just as He had been vulnerable during those excruciating hours just three short days before. Mary, weeping in the garden outside the empty tomb on Easter morning, knew what it meant love to the point of death. And only after she had shown that she would stay with Him there, on the other side, past all human understanding and hope, did He reveal Himself to her fully alive. We honor St. Mary Magdalene because she teaches us to let Christ invade our hearts. She teaches us to let Him cast out our demons so He can fill those open wounds with Himself. May she remind each of us on her feast day that He wounds us only in order to draw us closer to Himself. We can stand and stay put when love hurts, because ultimately He is going to fill us as He did her to the point of bursting with the crazy joy of the resurrection. St. Mary Magdalene, please pray for us! Source: https://churchpop.com/2016/07/22/greatness-...mary-magdalene/ |
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Talk about faith and commitment!!!! Respect!!! ...
 Meet the man building a Cathedral by hand Justo Gallego is 90 years old. For the past 53 years of his life, he has been building a Cathedral on the outskirts of Madrid by hand. Once a farmer, bullfighter, and then a Trappist monk of eight years, Gallego was forced to leave the monastery when he was struck with tuberculosis in 1961. While he was sick, he made a promise to God – if he could be healed, he would build a chapel and name it after the Blessed Virgin Mary. True to his promise, he started building in 1963. He has been building ever since, often without any help. He has no prior experience in construction or architecture, and he collects materials from the scraps of other construction sites. Great Big Story, a video offshoot of CNN, chronicled Gallego’s story in a recent short video: Gallego recognizes that he will not finish the Cathedral during his lifetime, but he said he will leave the rest of the work up to God. Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/mee...hedral-by-hand/ |
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Hollande says France is at war with ISIS: Islamist knifemen chanting 'Allahu Akbar' behead French priest, 86, and leave nun fighting for her life after storming Mass - before police shoot them dead
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Reminder: DOCAT digital book offered FREE until end of World Youth Day
Pope Francis is offering the brand new book on the social teachings of the Catholic Church as a free gift (digital download) until the end of World Youth Day (July 31, 2016). After that, it becomes an in-app purchase. As we noted earlier this month, this new app contains a follow-up digital book to the popular youth catechism book and app, YouCat (introduced by Pope Benedict at World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011). This is “Do”Cat with an emphasis on putting our faith in action, particularly in light of the social teaching of the Catholic Church. The point of the fresh-approach catechism written for a young audience –and introducing it as a free download during World Youth Day–is to jump-start a global movement to engage young people in the social doctrine of the Church. Think of this app as a package containing the DoCat book. And along with the book you get a comprehensive quiz to help reinforce the material. It is beautifully laid out with an elegant, easy-to-read font laced with photographs and line art illustrating the important content. As you open the app, you will be asked to take a pledge to Pope Francis to live out what you learn and pass it on to others –an active engagement for a more just world. After you agree, the app opens to the home screen which offers a portal to the DoCat book (which you purchase for the next couple of days at $0.00). DoCat is a catechism on the Church’s social teachings enriched and developed particularly since Pope Leo XII’s forceful expression of the doctrine in the 19th century. The book walks readers through a basic catechesis covering love, the Church’s social mission, the human person, the principles of the church’s social teaching, the family, human work, economic life, the political community, the international community, the environment, peace, and love in action. Each chapter is broken up into relatively short chunks of text beginning with a question and then proceeding with an answer (think Baltimore Catechism). These short question-answer pieces are given proper citations followed by a little blue “share” symbol–an invitation to post the segment on social media. Great idea. While this particular catechism, like its YouCat predecessor, is written in a lighter, breezier style than our monster Catechism of the Catholic Church book, it attempts to be comprehensive in the midst of being comprehendible. It still tackles weighty subjects head-on making the teachings understandable without dumbing down content. We appreciate how it respects the intelligence of its readers. Still, some lengthy sentences leave us reeling: QUOTE Catholic social teaching is only the systematic development of what is already present in its fullness in Jesus Christ; the man who is rediscovered in his original dignity (personhood), who is freed from greed and sin and seeks to serve his neighbor (solidarity), who keeps the “welfare of the city” (Jer. 29:7) in mind (common good), as well as a society in which groups and communities can develop freely in peace and justice (subsidiarity)–that is the grand vision. As Pope Francis explains in his introduction to DoCat, “…it is like a user’s manual that helps us to change ourselves with the Gospel first, and then our closest surroundings, and finally the whole world. For with the power of the Gospel, we can truly change the world.”To that we say, “Amen!” Thank you for the gift of this free book, Pope Francis. World Youth Day ends Sunday, July 31. Source: https://catholicapptitude.org/2016/07/27/re...orld-youth-day/ |
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 114 Reading 1 (Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23) Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation; even at night his mind is not at rest. This also is vanity. Responsorial Psalm (Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17) R. (1) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. You turn man back to dust, saying, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. You make an end of them in their sleep; the next morning they are like the changing grass, Which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Reading 2 (Col 3:1-5, 9-11) Brothers and sisters: If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all. Alleluia (Mt 5:3) R. Alleluia, alleluia. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel (Lk 12:13-21) Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.” |
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The Fool’s Vanity: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Trust in God—as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This should be the mark of our following of Jesus. Like the Israelites we recall in this week's Psalm, we have made an exodus, passing through the waters of Baptism, freeing us from our bondage to sin. We too are on a pilgrimage to a promised homeland, the Lord in our midst, feeding us heavenly bread, giving us living waters to drink (see 1 Corinthians 10:1-4). We must take care to guard against the folly that befell the Israelites, that led them to quarrel and test God's goodness at Meribah and Massah. We can harden our hearts in ways more subtle but no less ruinous. We can put our trust in possessions, squabble over earthly inheritances, kid ourselves that what we have we deserve, store up treasures and think they'll afford us security, rest. All this is "vanity of vanities," a false and deadly way of living, as this week's First Reading tells us. This is the greed that Jesus warns against in this week's Gospel. The rich man's anxiety and toil expose his lack of faith in God's care and provision. That's why Paul calls greed "idolatry" in the Epistle this week. Mistaking having for being, possession for existence, we forget that God is the giver of all that we have, we exalt the things we can make or buy over our Maker (see Romans 1:25). Jesus calls the rich man a "fool"—a word used in the Old Testament for someone who rebels against God or has forgotten Him (see Psalm 14:1). We should treasure most the new life we have been given in Christ and seek what is above, the promised inheritance of heaven. We have to see all things in the light of eternity, mindful that He who gives us the breath of life could at any moment—this night even—demand it back from us. Source: https://stpaulcenter.com/reflections/the-fo...KPSwZw.facebook |
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QUOTE(yeeck @ Aug 3 2016, 10:07 PM)  LOL...   This post has been edited by khool: Aug 4 2016, 09:06 AM |
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8 Things Catholics Should Do Every Day
We get it. You already have a to-do list that is long. This list isn’t meant to guilt you into an impossible regimen on top of your already crammed day. The goal is to start incorporating one or two of these things into your day and then keep working until these actions become a natural part of who you are. Make them essential healthy habits – like brushing your teeth – so that you don’t even have to think twice about getting them done. 1. Start the day with prayer, your Bible, and a talk with your Mother It sounds so simple, yet I don’t understand why some days I can’t seem to “fit” in prayer. Our days need to be centered around this habit. Make a date of it. Set your cell phone alarm to a time when you can pray and don’t leave God stranded. Mornings are best, but if it doesn’t work for you find a time that does. Pull out your Bible and read a line or two. The daily Mass readings are a great place to start. A goal for every Catholic is to say the rosary everyday, but some of us are in a season of life when this isn’t possible. If you can’t do a rosary, start with at least a Hail Mary and work up to a decade or a chaplet. QUOTE “Prayer is nothing else than union with God. When the heart is pure and united with God it is consoled and filled with sweetness; it is dazzled by a marvelous light.” – St. John Vianney 2. Smile, Use your Manners, Be kind, Give out hugs. Have you heard the old Hymn, “They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love…”? It’s not necessarily true today. Christians have become just as rude and inconsiderate as everyone else, sometimes even more so! Let’s reclaim our Christian love by smiling, letting others go first in line or helping old ladies cross the street. QUOTE “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Blessed Mother Teresa 3. Go on Social Media (i.e., communicate!), call a friend, visit a friend Yes, I know we have a bunch of posts about how social media is overused, but go ahead, use it! However, use it in a way that glorifies God. Share a scripture with a friend. Check in on an old classmate. Daily connect with people to build relationships. (Don’t stop there though, make it a weekly goal to get together in person with a friend or family member.) QUOTE “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – St. Thomas Aquinas 4. Tell someone you love them and why I don’t know anyone who has ever gotten tired of hearing they are loved. It’s even better when they are given a list of reasons why! Whether it is your parents, siblings, or your own children, make it a daily habit to tell at least one person in your life how much you love them. QUOTE “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.” -St. Francis de Sales 5. Talk about God Make God a part of your whole day, not just your prayer time. Bring Him into conversations with friends, family, even co-workers if you can. We talk about things we love – movies, restaurants, people… but we often fail to talk about God in the same way. QUOTE “But this does not mean that we should postpone the evangelizing mission; rather, each of us should find ways to communicate Jesus wherever we are. All of us are called to offer others an explicit witness to the saving love of the Lord, who despite our imperfections offers us his closeness, his word and his strength, and gives meaning to our lives.” – Pope Francis 6. Sacrifice something It’s so important that we learn to make daily sacrifices and offer them up to the Lord. It doesn’t have to be anything crazy. Eat bread with no butter. Turn off the radio and drive in silence. It’s the little things that cultivate our holiness and help us to overcome our attachment to things of the world. QUOTE “There is no place for selfishness—and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice.” – Saint Pope John Paul II 7. Serve in some way Look for a way to serve someone everyday. Again, this doesn’t have to be something major like heading to Africa on service trip. It can be doing the dishes for your mom, paying for a stranger’s coffee, or picking up garbage as you walk down the street. Don’t let a day go by in which you did not do something for someone else. QUOTE “You know that our Lord does not look at the greatness or difficulty of our action, but at the love with which you do it. What, then, have you to fear?” – St. Therese of the Child Jesus 8. Reflect on your day At the end of every day, take a few minutes to think back over the day. An examination of conscience is a great way to do this. Is there someone you need to forgive? Is there someone you need to seek forgiveness from? Think about the ways in which the Lord provided for you and be thankful for His many blessings. Thank Him! Ask yourself, did I move closer to or further from God through my actions today? How can I do better tomorrow? There is even an app for this created by a priest. Check out the EXAMEN Prayer App here: http://www.theprodigalfather.org. QUOTE “You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.” – St. Alphonsus Rodriguez For your weekly and monthly planning: Every Week: – go to Mass on Sunday (and more frequently if you can through the week) – go to Adoration – meet with a friend in person and/or go on a date with your spouse Every Month: – go to Confession – do some type of ministry (help with a youth group, serve in a soup kitchen, etc) – read a spiritual book – meet with a spiritual mentor Every Year: – Go on a Retreat Source: http://catholic-link.org/2016/02/26/8-thin...campaign=buffer This post has been edited by khool: Aug 5 2016, 09:13 AM |
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The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Revelation of Christ's Divine Glory The feast of the Transfiguration of Christ celebrates the revelation of Christ's divine glory on Mount Tabor in Galilee (Matthew 17:1-6; Mark 9:1-8; Luke 9:28-36). After revealing to His disciples that He would be put to death in Jerusalem (Matthew 16:21), Christ, along with Ss. Peter, James, and John, went up the mountain. There, Saint Matthew writes, "he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow." Quick Facts - Date: August 6. - Type of Feast: Feast. (For more details, see Is Transfiguration a Holy Day of Obligation? - Readings: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Peter 1:16-19; Luke 9:28b-36 (full text here) - Prayers: Collect for the Feast of the Transfiguration (from the Mass of St. Pius V): "O God, Who in the glorious transfiguration of Thine only-begotten Son didst strengthen the sacraments of faith by the testimony of the fathers, and Who didst wonderfully foreshow the perfect adoption of Thy children by a voice coming down in a shining cloud, mercifully grant that we be made co-heirs of the King of glory Himself, and grant us to be sharers in that very glory. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen." - Other Names for the Feast: The Transfiguration of Jesus; The Transfiguration of the Lord; The Transfiguration of Christ History of the Feast of the Transfiguration The brightness was not something added to Christ but the manifestation of His true divine nature. For Peter, James, and John, it was also a glimpse of the glories of heaven and of the resurrected body promised to all Christians. As Christ was transfigured, two others appeared with Him: Moses, representing the Old Testament Law, and Elijah, representing the prophets. Thus Christ, Who stood between the two and spoke with them, appeared to the disciples as the fulfillment of both the Law and the prophets. At Christ's baptism in the Jordan, the voice of God the Father was heard to proclaim that "This is my beloved Son" (Matthew 3:17). During the Transfiguration, God the Father pronounced the same words (Matthew 17:5). Despite the importance of this event, the Feast of the Transfiguration was not among the earliest of the Christian feasts. It was celebrated in Asia starting in the fourth or fifth century and spread throughout the Christian East in the centuries following. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that it wasn't commonly celebrated in the West until the tenth century. Pope Callixtus III elevated the Transfiguration to a feast of the universal Church and established August 6 as the date of its celebration. Dracula and the Feast of the Transfiguration Few people today realize that the Feast of the Transfiguration owes its place on the calendar, in part, to the courageous actions of Dracula. Yes, Dracula—or, more precisely, Vlad III the Impaler, who is better known to history by the dreaded name. Pope Callixtus III added the Feast of the Transfiguration to the calendar to celebrate the important victory of the Hungarian nobleman Janos Hunyadi and the elderly priest Saint John of Capistrano at the Siege of Belgrade in July 1456. Breaking the siege, their troops reinforced the Christians at Belgrade, the Muslim Turks were routed, and Islam was stopped from advancing further into Europe. With the exception of Saint John of Capistrano, Hunyadi could find no significant allies to accompany him to Belgrade, but he did enlist the help of young prince Vlad, who agreed to guard the passes into Rumania, thus cutting off the Turk. Without his aid, the battle might not have been won. Vlad was a brutal man whose actions earned him immortality as the fictional vampire, but some Orthodox Christians venerate him as a saint for confronting the Islamic threat to Christian Europe, and indirectly, at least, his memory is recalled in the universal celebration of the Feast of the Transfiguration. Source: http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysan...sfiguration.htm |
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 117 Reading 1 (Wis 18:6-9) The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had summoned. For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution. Responsorial Psalm (Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22) R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. Exult, you just, in the LORD; praise from the upright is fitting. Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance. R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us who have put our hope in you. R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. Reading 2 (Heb 11:1-2, 8-19) Brothers and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise; for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God. By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age —and Sarah herself was sterile— for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy. So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore. All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth, for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name.” He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol. Alleluia (Mt 24:42a, 44) R. Alleluia, alleluia. Stay awake and be ready! For you do not know on what day your Lord will come. R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel (Lk 12:32-48) Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Then Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” And the Lord replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly, I say to you, the master will put the servant in charge of all his property. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish the servant severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful. That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely; and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” |
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Homily for Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Faith and the Reasoning of the Religious Mind God cannot be analyzed scientifically the way one would study the things of the world, but God can be approached through religious reasoning, or Faith. Faith is often criticized as unintelligent tomfoolery. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Catholic tradition reveals that Faith is a rational reaction to God in the religious person. It is the reasoning of the religious mind. Homily inside the article ... Source: http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/homily...ious-mind/1008/ This post has been edited by khool: Aug 7 2016, 12:19 AM |
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QUOTE(yeeck @ Aug 7 2016, 10:32 PM) Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Traditional Latin Mass?INTROIT ¤ Ps. 69. 2, 3 Incline unto my aid, O God: O Lord, make haste to help me: let my enemies be confounded and ashamed, who seek my soul. -- (Ps. 69. 4). Let them be turned backward and blush for shame, who desire evils to me. V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Incline unto my aid, O God . . . COLLECT.--O almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that Thy faithful people do unto Thee worthy and laudable service: grant unto us, we beseech Thee, that we may run without stumbling towards the attainment of Thy promises. Through our Lord . . . EPISTLE ¤ II Cor. 3. 1-9 Lesson from the second Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. [The law of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect development of the Law of Moses. Let us not follow a pharisaical interpretation of the law which reduces our religious duties to a few outward practices. "The letter killeth, the spirit quickeneth."] Brethren, Such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance; which is made void: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather in glory? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory. GRADUAL ¤ Ps. 33. 2, 3 I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall ever be in my mouth. V.: In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear, and rejoice. Alleluia, alleluia. V.(Ps. 87. 2). O Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried in the day, and in the night before Thee. Alleluia. GOSPEL ¤ Luke 10. 23-37 † Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Luke. [The parable of the good Samaritan shows us that our neighbor is every man, known or unknown, friend or enemy, to whom we are united by the bonds of Christian charity taught us by Jesus in healing our wounds.] At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting Him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? But He said to them: What is written in the law? how readest thou? He answering, said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." And He said to him: Thou hast answered rightly: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who also stripped him, and having wounded him, went away, leaving him half dead. And it chanced that a certain priest went down the same way, and seeing him, passed by. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by. But a certain Samaritan being on his journey, came near him, and seeing him, was moved with compassion, and going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And the next day he took out two pence, and gave to the host, and said: Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee. Which of these three, in thine opinion, was neighbor to him that fell among robbers? But he said: He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go and do thou in like manner. OFFERTORY ¤ Exodus 32. 11, 13, 14 Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God, and said: Why, O Lord, is Thine indignation enkindled against Thy people? Let the anger of Thy mind cease; remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom Thou didst swear to give a land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which He had spoken of doing against His people. SECRET.--Graciously look upon the Sacrifices, we beseech Thee, O Lord, which we present upon Thine altar: that while they obtain pardon for us, they may give honor to Thy Name. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost . . . COMMUNION ¤ Ps. 103. 13, 14, 15 The earth shall be filled with the fruit of Thy works, O Lord, that Thou mayest bring bread out of the earth, and that wine may cheer the heart of man; that he may make the face cheerful with oil; and that bread may strengthen man's heart. |
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