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LEARN TO BE A FOOL

Thursday Week 23 in Ordinary Time - St, Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ First reading 1 Corinthian 3:18-23  The wisdom of the world is foolishness to God Make no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise. Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As scripture says: The Lord knows wise men’s thoughts: he knows how useless they are; or again: God is not convinced by the arguments of the wise. So there is nothing to boast about in anything human: Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life and death, the present and the future, are all your servants; but you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. Responsorial Psalm:  The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness. Gospel Luke 5:1-11  They left everything and followed him Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd ...