CANNOT THRIVE

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 648 total views Gospel Reading for September 10, 2024 – Luke 6: 12-19 MORE WORTHY Jesus departed 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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 648 total views Gospel Reading for September 09, 2024 – Luke 6: 6-11 CELEBRATION On a certain sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so that they

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 648 total views Gospel Reading for September 8, 2024 – Mark 7: 31-37 THE WORST OF THE WORST Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and

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 648 total views Gospel Reading for September 07, 2024 – Luke 6: 1-5 HIGHEST FORM OF PRAYER While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on

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 1,115 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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 1,116 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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 1,319 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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 1,319 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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 1,319 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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 1,717 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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 1,821 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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 1,821 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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 1,821 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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 2,207 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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 2,339 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