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THIS IS YOUR MOTHER

Tuesday Week 24 in Ordinary Time: Our Lady of Sorrows ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ First Reading 1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31  You together are Christ's body : each of you a different part Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink. Nor is the body to be identified with any one of its many parts. Now you together are Christ’s body; but each of you is a different part of it. In the Church, God has given the first place to apostles, the second to prophets, the third to teachers; after them, miracles, and after them the gift of healing; helpers, good leaders, those with many languages. Are all of them apostles, or all of them prophets, or all of them teachers? Do they all have the gift of mirac...
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THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS

' His state was divine , yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God' First Reading Numbers 24:4-9  If anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked up at the bronze serpent and lived On the way through the wilderness the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food.’ At this God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede for us with the Lord to save us from these serpents.’ Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord answered him, ‘Make a fiery serpent and put it on a standard. If anyone is bitten and looks at it, he shall live.’ So Moses fashioned a bronze serpent which he put on a standard, and if anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked at the bronze serpent an...
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DO NOT BEAR YOUR NEIGHBOUR ILL-WILL

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me?' First Reading Eclasisticle 27: 33-28,9 Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you; and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven Resentment and anger, these are foul things, and both are found with the sinner. He who exacts vengeance will experience the vengeance of the Lord.  who keeps strict account of sin. Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven. If a man nurses anger against another, can he then demand compassion from the Lord? Showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sins? Mere creature of flesh, he cherishes resentment; who will forgive him his sins? Remember the last things, and stop hating. remember dissolution and death, and live by the commandments. Remember the commandments, and do not bear your neighbour ill-will; remember the covenant of the Most High, and overlook the offence. Responsorial Psalm:...
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WE ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST

Saturday, Week 3 in Ordinary Time ‘Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord” and not do what I say?' First Reading 1 Corinthians 10:14-22  We are a single body because we all share the one bread My dear brothers, you must keep clear of idolatry. I say to you as sensible people: judge for yourselves what I am saying. The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf. Look at the other Israel, the race, where those who eat the sacrifices are in communion with the altar. Does this mean that the food sacrificed to idols has a real value, or that the idol itself is real? Not at all. It simply means that the sacrifices that they offer they sacrifice to demons who are not God. I have no desire to see you in communion with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord...
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CAN THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND

Friday Week 23 in Ordinary Time: ' Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first' First Reading 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-27  We go into strict training, like fighters at the games I do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching, to be able to offer the Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the gospel gives me. So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could. I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings. All the runners at the stadium are trying to win, but only one of them gets the prize. You must run in the sam...
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HAPPY ARE YOU WHO ARE POOR

Wednesday Week 23 in Ordinary Time - Saint Peter Claver, Priest 'Happy you who are hungry now: you shall be satisfied' First Reading 1 Corinthians 7:25-31  The world as we know it is passing away About remaining celibate, I have no directions from the Lord but give my own opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, has stayed faithful. Well then, I believe that in these present times of stress this is right: that it is good for a man to stay as he is. If you are tied to a wife, do not look for freedom; if you are free of a wife, then do not look for one. But if you marry, it is no sin, and it is not a sin for a young girl to get married. They will have their troubles, though, in their married life, and I should like to spare you that. Brothers, this is what I mean: our time is growing short. Those who have wives should live as though they had none, and those who mourn should live as though they had nothing to mourn for; those who are enjoying life should live as though there we...
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THE BIRTHDAY OF BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Mary's Birthday: The Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary First Reading Micah 5:1-4  He will stand and feed his flock with the power of the Lord The Lord says this:  But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,  the least of the clans of Judah,  out of you will be born for me  the one who is to rule over Israel;  his origin goes back to the distant past,  to the days of old.  The Lord is therefore going to abandon them  till the time when she who is to give birth gives birth.  Then the remnant of his brothers will come back, to the sons of Israel.  He will stand and feed his flock  with the power of the Lord,  with the majesty of the name of his God.  They will live secure, for from then on he will extend his power  to the ends of the land., He himself will be peace. Gospel 1:1-16,18-23  The ancestry and conception of Jesus Christ A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:  Abraham was the father of Isaac...
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