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 107 total views Gospel Reading for September 06, 2024 – Luke 5: 33-39 FIRST CATECHISTS The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests

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 108 total views Gospel Reading for September 05, 2024 – Luke 5: 1-11 A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their

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 311 total views Gospel Reading for September 4, 2024 – Luke 4: 38-44 HEAVEN ON EARTH After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up

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 311 total views Gospel Reading for September 3, 2024 – Luke 4: 31-37 DETERMINATION Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and

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 311 total views Gospel Reading for September 2, 2024 – Luke 4: 16-30 LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST! Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled

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 709 total views Gospel Reading for September 1, 2024 – Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 A PRICELESS GIFT When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. —For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews,

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 816 total views Gospel Reading for August 31, 2024 – Matthew 25: 14-30 NOT FOR OURSELVES Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one–to each according to his ability.

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 816 total views Gospel Reading, 30 August 2024 – Matthew 25: 1-13 BAHALA NA! Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The Kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps,

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 816 total views Gospel Reading for August 29, 2024 – Mark 6: 17-29 GOING AGAINST OURSELF Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to

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 1,202 total views Gospel Reading for August 28, 2024 – Matthew 23: 27-32 WASTE OF SPACE Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you

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 1,334 total views Gospel Reading for August 27, 2024 – Matthew 23: 23-26 USE GOD Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting

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 1,332 total views Gospel Reading for August 26, 2024 – Matthew 23: 13-22 ANCHOR Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the Kingdom of heaven before men. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. “Woe to

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 1,567 total views Gospel Reading for August 25, 2024 – John 6: 60-69 NEVER LEFT US Many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this,he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the

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 1,722 total views Gospel Reading for August 24, 2024 – John 1: 45-51 OPPORTUNITY Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to

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 1,822 total views Gospel Reading for August 23, 2024 – Matthew 22: 34-40 LEVEL UP When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him,“You shall love