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18,677 total reads 33 Sunday C Mal 3:19-20 The prophet describes fire as a purifying end-time instrument, reducing the wicked to stubble. The “day” (v19) is
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14,848 total reads Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Ez. 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 The prophet Ezekiel describes a vision of a new temple for the exiled people
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16,129 total reads 2 Mc. 12:43-46 –Judas Maccabeus, victorious in battle, sends funds to Jerusalem as a sacrificial offering for the sins of those fallen in
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14,987 total reads 29th Sunday C Ex. 17:8-13 The passage recounts a story centered around Rephidim, linked to the word for support, and the altar Yahweh-nissi,
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13,561 total reads 28th Sunday C 2 Kgs 5:14-17 Naaman, an Aramean officer with leprosy, learns of Elisha’s healing power through a servant girl and travels
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16,212 total reads 26th Sunday C Hab 1:2-3, 2:2-4 Habakkuk, writing before the Babylonian invasion (597 B.C.), questions Yahweh’s rule amid widespread evils in Judah, emphasizing
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11,930 total reads Am 6:1, 4-7 Amos addresses the complacent rulers of Israel’s kingdoms (Zion and Samaria). Archeological finds in Samaria reveal beds with ivory inlays,
