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HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS

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WEDNESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis The Lord has commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways. First ReadingJob 9:1-13,14-16  How can man be in the right against God? Job spoke to his friends:  Indeed, I know it is as you say:   how can man be in the right against God?   If any were so rash as to challenge him for reasons,  one in a thousand would be more than they could answer.  His heart is wise, and his strength is great:   who then can successfully defy him?  He moves the mountains, though they do not know it;  he throws them down when he is angry.  He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place,  making all its pillars tremble.  The sun, at his command, forbears to rise,  and on the stars he sets a seal.  He and no other stretched out the skies,  and trampled the Sea’s tall waves.  The Bear, Orion too, are of his making,   the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South....

BE LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN

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TUESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord Reading Job    3:1-3,11-17,20-23  Why did I not perish on the day I was born? Job broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said: May the day perish when I was born,  and the night that told of a boy conceived. Why did I not die new-born,   not perish as I left the womb? Why were there two knees to receive me,  two breasts for me to suck?  Had there not been, I should now be lying in peace,  wrapped in a restful slumber,  with the kings and high viziers of earth   who build themselves vast vaults,  or with princes who have gold and to spare   and houses crammed with silver.  Or put away like a still-born child that never came to be,  like unborn babes that never see the light.  Down there, bad men bustle no more,   there the weary rest. Why give light to a man of grief?   Why give li...

LE SAINT DE DIEU

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JEUDI 22E SEMAINE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE: AELF Saint GrĆ©goire le Grand, pape et docteur de l'Ɖglise Ā« Silence ! Sors de cet homme. Ā»  PremiĆØre Lecture 1 Corinthiens 2,10b-1  l’Esprit scrute le fond de toutes choses   FrĆØres, l’Esprit scrute le fond de toutes choses, mĆŖme les profondeurs de Dieu. Qui donc, parmi les hommes, sait ce qu’il y a dans l’homme, sinon l’esprit de l’homme qui est en lui ? De mĆŖme, personne ne connaĆ®t ce qu’il y a en Dieu, sinon l’Esprit de Dieu. Or nous, ce n’est pas l’esprit du monde que nous avons reƧu, mais l’Esprit qui vient de Dieu, et ainsi nous avons conscience des dons que Dieu nous a accordĆ©s. Nous disons cela avec un langage que nous n’apprenons pas de la sagesse humaine, mais que nous apprenons de l’Esprit ; nous comparons entre elles les rĆ©alitĆ©s spirituelles. L’homme, par ses seules capacitĆ©s, n’accueille pas ce qui vient de l’Esprit de Dieu ; pour lui ce n’est que folie, et il ne peut pas comprendre, car c’est par l’Esprit qu...

THE HOLY ONE OF GOD

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TUESDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis Saint Gregory, Pope, Doctor of the Church ā€˜Be quiet! Come out of him!’ First Reading 1 Corinthians 2:10-16  The Spirit reaches even the depths of God The Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us. Therefore we teach, not in the way in which philosophy is taught, but in the way that the Spirit teaches us: we teach spiritual things spiritually.  An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God: he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual man, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of...

LA FOI SUR LA PHILOSOPHIE HUMAINE

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LUNDI 22E SEMAINE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE: AELF Ā« MĆ©decin, guĆ©ris-toi toi-mĆŖme Ā» PremiĆØre Lecture 1 Corinthiens 2,1-5 Ā« Parmi vous, je n’ai rien voulu connaĆ®tre d’autre que JĆ©sus Christ, ce Messie crucifiĆ© Ā»  FrĆØres, quand je suis venu chez vous, je ne suis pas venu vous annoncer le mystĆØre de Dieu avec le prestige du langage ou de la sagesse. Parmi vous, je n’ai rien voulu connaĆ®tre d’autre que JĆ©sus Christ, ce Messie crucifiĆ©. Et c’est dans la faiblesse, craintif et tout tremblant, que je me suis prĆ©sentĆ© Ć  vous. Mon langage, ma proclamation de l’Évangile, n’avaient rien d’un langage de sagesse qui veut convaincre ; mais c’est l’Esprit et sa puissance qui se manifestaient, pour que votre foi repose, non pas sur la sagesse des hommes, mais sur la puissance de Dieu. Psaume Responsorial: De quel amour, Seigneur, j’aime ta loi ! Ɖvangile Luc  4,16-30  Ā« Il m’a envoyĆ© porter la Bonne Nouvelle aux pauvres.  Aucun prophĆØte ne trouve un accueil ...

FAITH ON HUMAN PHILOSOPHY

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MONDAY WEEK 22 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis ā€œPhysician, heal yourselfā€ First Reading 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 The only knowledge I claimed was of the crucified Christ When I came to you, brothers, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy, but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed. During my stay with you, the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus, and only about him as the crucified Christ. Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great ā€˜fear and trembling’ and in my speeches and the sermons that I gave, there were none of the arguments that belong to philosophy; only a demonstration of the power of the Spirit. And I did this so that your faith should not depend on human philosophy but on the power of God. Reponsorial Psalm: Lord, how I love your law Gospe l Luke 4:16-30  'This text is being fulfilled today, even as you listen' Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usuall...

ACCUEILLEZ ET SOUMETTEZ-VOUS ƀ LA PAROLE

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22E DIMANCHE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE: AELF Ā« Vous laissez de cĆ“tĆ© le commandement de Dieu, pour vous attacher Ć  la tradition des hommesĀ»  PremiĆØre Lecture DeutĆ©ronome  4,1-2.6-8 Ā« Vous n’ajouterez rien Ć  ce que je vous ordonne… vous garderez les commandements du Seigneur Ā»   MoĆÆse disait au peuple : Ā« Maintenant, IsraĆ«l, Ć©coute les dĆ©crets et les ordonnances que je vous enseigne pour que vous les mettiez en pratique. Ainsi vous vivrez, vous entrerez, pour en prendre possession, dans le pays que vous donne le Seigneur, le Dieu de vos pĆØres. Vous n’ajouterez rien Ć  ce que je vous ordonne, et vous n’y enlĆØverez rien, mais vous garderez les commandements du Seigneur votre Dieu tels que je vous les prescris. Vous les garderez, vous les mettrez en pratique ; ils seront votre sagesse et votre intelligence aux yeux de tous les peuples. Quand ceux-ci entendront parler de tous ces dĆ©crets, ils s’écrieront : ā€˜Il n’y a pas un peuple sage et intelligent comme cette grande ...