PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

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 178 total views Gospel Reading for September 16, 2024 – Luke 7: 1-10 CONVICTION When Jesus had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die, and he was valuable to him. When he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the

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 390 total views Gospel Reading for September 15, 2024 – Mark 8: 27-35 TRULY AWESOME Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.”

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 535 total views Gospel Reading for September 14, 2024 – John 3: 13-17 IMMENSE LOVE Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Jesus said to Nicodemus: “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in

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 624 total views Gospel Reading for September 13, 2024 – Luke 6: 39-42 WASTE OF TIME Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. Why

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 861 total views Gospel Reading for September 11, 2024 – Luke 6: 20-26 ETERNAL BLISS Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for

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 866 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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 866 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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 866 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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 866 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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 1,333 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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 1,334 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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 1,537 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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 1,537 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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 1,537 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