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 317 total views Gospel Reading for November 03, 2024 – Mark 12: 28b-34 ENOUGH One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,”Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all

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 330 total views Gospel Reading for November 1, 2024 – Matthew 5: 1-12a CELEBRATING A MILLION LIVES Solemnity of All Saints When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs

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 330 total views Gospel Reading for October 31, 2024 – Luke 13: 31-35 GOD ALONE SUFFICES Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the

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 330 total views Gospel Reading for October 30, 2024 – Luke 13: 22-30 AUTOMATICALLY Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you,

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 329 total views Gospel Reading for October 29, 2024 – Luke 13: 18-21 VERY BIG EDGE Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush

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 328 total views Gospel Reading for October 28, 2024 – Luke 6: 12-16 OMNISCIENT Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter,

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 1,126 total views Gospel Reading for October 27, 2024 – Mark 10: 46-52 “SUPERHERO” As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son

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 1,347 total views Gospel Reading for October 25, 2024 – Luke 12: 54-59 DO NOT RECOGNIZE Jesus said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does; and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say

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 1,347 total views Gospel Reading for October 24, 2024 – Luke 12: 49-53 WILL ALWAYS CAUSE DIVISION Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until

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 1,347 total views Gospel Reading for October 23, 2024 – Luke 12: 39-48 LIFE WORK Jesus said to his disciples: “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

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 1,346 total views Gospel Reading for October 22, 2024 – Luke 12: 35-38 WE WILL BE READY Jesus said to his disciples: “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

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 1,347 total views Gospel Reading for October 21, 2024 – Luke 12: 13-21 UTTER FOLLY 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

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 1,349 total views Gospel Reading for October 20, 2024 – Mark 10: 35-45 PARADIGM SHIFT James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?” They answered him,

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 1,352 total views Gospel Reading for October 19, 2024 – Luke 12: 8-12 ONLY GOD’S SPIRIT Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God. “Everyone

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 1,069 total views Gospel Reading for October 18, 2024 – Luke 10: 1-9 FORERUNNER The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the