DO NOT MAKE THE LORD ANGRY

SATURDAY WEEK 23 ORDINARY TIME

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 and the cup of demons. You cannot take your share at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons. Do we want to make the Lord angry; are we stronger than he is? Readings Reflection

Gospel Luke 6:43-49 Whoever hears me builds his house on a rock

Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary. Hail Holy Queen

Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Blessed Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me. Defend and protect me. Guide and guard me.

Your Birthday Saint: St. Nicholas Tolentino, Priest. May he pray for you as you celebrate your birthday today.

Lecture de la première lettre de saint Paul apôtre aux Corinthiens 10, 14-22

« La multitude que nous sommes est un seul corps, car nous avons tous part à un seul pain »

Mes bien-aimés, fuyez le culte des idoles. Je vous parle comme à des personnes raisonnables ; jugez vous-mêmes de ce que je dis. La coupe de bénédiction que nous bénissons, n’est-elle pas communion au sang du Christ ? Le pain que nous rompons, n’est-il pas communion au corps du Christ ? Puisqu’il y a un seul pain, la multitude que nous sommes est un seul corps, car nous avons tous part à un seul pain. Voyez ce qui se passe chez les Israélites : ceux qui mangent les victimes offertes sur l’autel de Dieu, ne sont-ils pas en communion avec lui ?

Je ne prétends pas que la viande offerte aux idoles ou que les idoles elles-mêmes représentent quoi que ce soit. Mais je dis que les sacrifices des païens sont offerts aux démons, et non à Dieu, et je ne veux pas que vous soyez en communion avec les démons. Vous ne pouvez pas boire à la coupe du Seigneur et en même temps à celle des démons ; vous ne pouvez pas prendre part à la table du Seigneur et en même temps à celle des démons. Voulons-nous provoquer l’ardeur jalouse du Seigneur ? Sommes-nous plus forts que lui ? Lecture Meditation

Évangile Luc 6, 43-49 « Pourquoi m’appelez-vous en disant : “Seigneur ! Seigneur !” et ne faites-vous pas ce que je dis ? »

Priez la Sainte Rosaire : Ave Maria. Je vous salue Sainte Reine.

Seigneur Jésus-Christ, j’ai confiance en toi. La Vierge Marie priez pour moi. Saint Joseph priez pour moi. Les saints anges et saints de Dieu prient pour moi. Mon Ange Gardien priez pour moi. Défendez-moi et protégez-moi. Guidez-moi. Gardez-moi.

Saint de Votre Anniversaire : St. Nicolas de Tolentino priez pour vous comme vous célébrez votre anniversaire aujourd’hui.

GOD'S GIFTS

GOD'S GIFT Mathew 25:14-30 Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of Heaven is like a man on his way abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one; each in proportion to his ability. Then he set out. ‘The man who had received the five talents promptly went and traded with them and made five more. The man who had received two made two more in the same way. But the man who had received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. ‘Now a long time after, the master of those servants came back and went through his accounts with them. The man who had received the five talents came forward bringing five more. “Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have made.” ‘His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; co...

HE EXISTED BEFORE ME

First Reading 1 John 2:22-28 The anointing he gave you teaches you everything The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son, because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well. Keep alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you were taught in the beginning is alive in you, you will live in the Son and in the Father; and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life. This is all that I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray. But you have not lost the anointing that he gave you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with truth, not with a lie, and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him. Live in Christ, then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not turn from him...

BE CURED

Prayer before Mass: Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of Your only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord, in Your great generosity, heal my sickness, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness. May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation. May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members. Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrima...

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