TRULY SINCERE

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 503 total views Gospel Reading for July 23, 2024 – Matthew 12: 46-50 INCLUSIVITY While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.” But he said in reply to the

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 613 total views Gospel Reading for July 22, 2024 – John 20: 1-2, 11-18 HOLD ON TO On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and

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 699 total views Gospel Reading for July 21, 2024 – Mark 6: 30-34 GREAT DANGER The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had

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 783 total views Gospel Reading for July 20, 2024 – Matthew 12: 14-21 VERY INSECURE The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known.

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 845 total views Gospel Reading for July 19, 2024 – Matthew 12: 1-8 CONTRARY Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is

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 1,012 total views Gospel Reading for July 17, 2024 – Matthew 11: 25-27 MEASURE UP At that time Jesus exclaimed: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been

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 1,139 total views Gospel Reading for July 16, 2024 – Matthew 11: 20-24 SHORT-LIVED Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre

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 1,136 total views Gospel Reading for July 15, 2024 – Matthew 10: 34-11: 1 NO SALVATION Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a

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 1,330 total views Gospel Reading for July 14, 2024 – Mark 6: 7-13 NOTHING WILL BE WASTED Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick— no food, no sack, no money

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 1,418 total views Gospel Reading for July 13, 2024 – Matthew 10: 24-33 WE ARE SURE Jesus said to his Apostles: “No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master. It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have

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 1,948 total views Gospel Reading for July 12, 2024 – Matthew 10: 16-23 THE STRONGEST Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you

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 1,618 total views Gospel Reading for July 11, 2024 – Matthew 10: 7-15 OUR FATE Jesus said to his Apostles: “As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.

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 1,411 total views Gospel Reading for July 10, 2024 – Matthew 10: 1-7 MULTIPLY Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the Twelve Apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the

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 1,412 total views Gospel Reading for July 9, 2024 – Matthew 9: 32-38 BEST TOOL A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus, and when the demon was driven out the mute man spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” But the Pharisees said, “He