Wednesday, 16 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing...
View ArticleWednesday, 16 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 24,1-2a.5-6.9-13.17-21.
Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor. When Paul had been summoned,...
View ArticleThursday, 17 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and...
View ArticleThursday, 17 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 24,27.25,1-12.
After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and since he wanted to grant the Jews a favour, Felix left Paul in prison. Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he...
View ArticleFriday, 18 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
The Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and prudent manager whom his master will put in charge of his slaves, to give them their allowance of food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his...
View ArticleFriday, 18 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 25,13-14.22-27.
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus. Since they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, ‘There is...
View ArticleSaturday, 19 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come...
View ArticleSaturday, 19 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 26,1-2a.6-10.12-19.
Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You have permission to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to defend himself: ‘I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am...
View ArticleSunday, 20 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is...
View ArticleSunday, 20 August 2017 : Letter to the Ephesians 3,1-13.
This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given to me for you, and how the...
View ArticleSunday, 20 August 2017 : Commentary Guigo II the Carthusian
“Lord, you are not seen except by the pure of heart. I seek by reading and meditating what is true purity of heart and how it may be attained, so that with its help I may know you, if only a little....
View ArticleMonday, 21 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Jesus also said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, "It is going to rain"; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, "There will be...
View ArticleMonday, 21 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 27,1-4.8a.14-15.18-21a.22-26.
When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius. Embarking on a ship of Adramyttium that was about...
View ArticleMonday, 21 August 2017 : Commentary Benedict XVI
The good of the individual is a good that is linked to living in society: the common good. It is the good of “all of us”, made up of individuals, families and intermediate groups who together...
View ArticleTuesday, 22 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in...
View ArticleTuesday, 22 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 27,27.33-37.39-44.
When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. Just before daybreak, Paul urged all of them to take...
View ArticleWednesday, 23 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Then Jesus told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, "See here! For three years I have come...
View ArticleWednesday, 23 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 28,1-10.
After we had reached safety, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of...
View ArticleThursday, 24 August 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand...
View ArticleThursday, 24 August 2017 : Acts of the Apostles 28,11-15.
Three months later we set sail on a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian ship with the Twin Brothers as its figurehead. We put in at Syracuse and stayed there for three days; then we...
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