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BE READY TO DO GOOD

Wednesday Week 32 in Ordinary Time Saint Martin of Tour, Bishop ‘Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.’ First Reading Titus 3:1-7  It was purely by his own compassion that God saved us Remind your people that it is their duty to be obedient to the officials and representatives of the government; to be ready to do good at every opportunity; not to go slandering other people or picking quarrels, but to be courteous and always polite to all kinds of people. Remember, there was a time when we too were ignorant, disobedient and misled and enslaved by different passions and luxuries; we lived then in wickedness and ill-will, hating each other and hateful ourselves. But when the kindness and love of God our saviour for mankind were revealed, it was not because he was concerned with any righteous actions we might have done ourselves; it was for no reason except his own compassion that he saved us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and by renewing us with the Holy Spirit which he has ...
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MAKE YOURSELF AN EXAMPLE

Tuesday, Week 32 in Ordinary Time Saint Leo the Great , Pope, Doctor of the Church 'It is for you to preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrine.' First Reading Titus 2:1-8,12-14  You must preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrine It is for you to preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrine. The older men should be reserved, dignified, moderate, sound in faith and love and constancy. Similarly, the older women should behave as though they were religious, with no scandal-mongering and no habitual wine-drinking – they are to be the teachers of the right behaviour and show the younger women how they should love their husbands and love their children, how they are to be sensible and chaste, and how to work in their homes, and be gentle, and do as their husbands tell them, so that the message of God is never disgraced. In the same way, you have got to persuade the younger men to be moderate and in everything you do make yourself an example to them o...
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STAY AWAKE AND STAND READY

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 'Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her.' First Reading Wisdom 6:12-16   Wisdom is found by those who look for her Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate. For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care; because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude. Responsorial Psalm: My soul is thirsting for you, o Lord my God. second Reading 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18  Do not grieve about those who have died in Jesus We want you to be quite certain, brother...
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YOU CANNOT BE SLAVE OF GOD AND MONEY

Week 31 in Ordinary Time 'I have learnt to manage on whatever I have, I know how to be poor and I know how to be rich too.' First Reading   Philippians 4:10-19 With the help of the One who gives me strength, there is nothing I cannot master It is a great joy to me, in the Lord, that at last you have shown some concern for me again; though of course you were concerned before, and only lacked an opportunity. I am not talking about shortage of money: I have learnt to manage on whatever I have, I know how to be poor and I know how to be rich too. I have been through my initiation and now I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty or plenty. There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength. All the same, it was good of you to share with me in my hardships. In the early days of the Good News, as you people of Philippi well know, when I left Macedonia, no other church helped me with gifts of money. You were the only ones; an...
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REMAIN FAITHFUL IN THE LORD

Week 31 in Ordinary Time ‘ The master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness. For the children of this world are more astute in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.' First Reading Philippians 3:17-4,1 Our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes Christ to transfigure us My brothers, be united in following my rule of life. Take as your models everybody who is already doing this and study them as you used to study us. I have told you often, and I repeat it today with tears, there are many who are behaving as the enemies of the cross of Christ. They are destined to be lost. They make foods into their god and they are proudest of something they ought to think shameful; the things they think important are earthly things. For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the saviour we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same pow...
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WORK FOR YOUR SALVATION

Week 31  in Ordinary Time Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop 'N one of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions’ First Reading Philippians 2:12-18  Work for your salvation, for God is working in you My dear friends, continue to do as I tell you, as you always have; not only as you did when I was there with you, but even more now that I am no longer there; and work for your salvation ‘in fear and trembling.’ It is God, for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood, and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. This would give me something to be proud of for the Day of Christ, and would mean that I had not run in the race and exhausted myself for nothing. And then, if my blood has to be shed as part of your own sacrific...
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THE LORD'S BANQUET

Week  31 in Ordinary Time First Reading Philippians 2:5-11   Christ humbled himself but God raised him high Brothers and sisters: Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and, found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Responsorial Psalm:  I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. Gospel Luke 14:15-24  'Not one of those who were invited shall have a taste of my banquet' One of those gathered round the ta...
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