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31 Wednesday Jul 2019
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inA man in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance.’ ‘My friend,’ he replied, ‘who appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of your claims?’ Then he said to them, ‘Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns, even when he has more than he needs.’
Then he told them a parable: ‘There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his land, thought to himself, “What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops.” Then he said, “This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them, and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty…
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30 Tuesday Jul 2019
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inThe Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’
The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Approaching him he said, ‘Are you really going to destroy the just man with the sinner? Perhaps there are fifty just men in the town. Will you really overwhelm them, will you not spare the place for the fifty just men in it? Do not think of doing such a thing: to kill the just man with the sinner, treating just and sinner alike! Do not think of it! Will the judge of the whole earth not administer justice?’ the Lord replied, ‘If at…
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27 Saturday Jul 2019
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26 Friday Jul 2019
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inI thank you, Lord, with all my heart:
you have heard the words of my mouth.
In the presence of the angels I will bless you.
I will adore before your holy temple.I thank you for your faithfulness and love,
which excel all we ever knew of you.
On the day I called, you answered;
you increased the strength of my soul.The Lord is high yet he looks on the lowly
and the haughty he knows from afar.
Though I walk in the midst of affliction
you give me life and frustrate my foes.You stretch out your hand and save me,
your hand will do all things for me.
Your love, O Lord, is eternal,
discard not the work of your hands.Responsorial Psalm for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Psalm 137(138):1-3,6-8
Again and again the Lord shows his favour for the lowly and the simple.
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25 Thursday Jul 2019
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inYou have been buried with Christ, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead. You were dead, because you were sinners and had not been circumcised: he has brought you to life with him, he has forgiven us all our sins.
He has overridden the Law, and cancelled every record of the debt that we had to pay; he has done away with it by nailing it to the cross.
Second reading for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Colossians 2:12-14
The Lord has freed us from sin, but temptations continue.
Our salvation is not past event, completed, achieved. It is work in progress. The Lord continues to save us, as we need him to, and if we let him!
Photograph (c) 2017, Allen Morris. Enamel plaque. Louvre, Paris.
24 Wednesday Jul 2019
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inOnce Jesus was in a certain place praying, and when he had finished one of his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’
He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray: “Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.”’He also said to them: ‘Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say, “My friend, lend me three loaves, because a friend of mine on his travels has just arrived at my house and I have nothing to offer him”; and the man answers from inside the house, “Do not bother me. The door is bolted now, and my…
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23 Tuesday Jul 2019
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inLord, who shall dwell on your holy mountain?
He who walks without fault;
he who acts with justice
and speaks the truth from his heart;
he who does not slander with his tongue.He who does no wrong to his brother,
who casts no slur on his neighbour,
who holds the godless in disdain,
but honours those who fear the Lord.He who keeps his pledge, come what may;
who takes no interest on a loan
and accepts no bribes against the innocent.
Such a man will stand firm for ever.Responsorial Psalm for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Psalm 14(15):2-5
The Lord invites all of us to his holy mountain – people of every sort and every one of every sort.
But to dwell there requires a certain discipline, the discipline of love and care for neighbour, of love and care for the Lord, and a healthy respect for…
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22 Monday Jul 2019
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inShow favour, O Lord, to your servants
and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace,
that, made fervent in hope, faith and charity,
they may be ever watchful in keeping your commands.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.Collect for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The greater gift that we can offer to Jesus is the gift of ourselves – and of ourselves attentive, responsive, cooperating, co-creating – thus allow the giftedness of ourselves to be at his service. We need to have something of Mary about us so that we can be something like Martha for others.
The Lord calls us to completion, and we learn that from him…
(c) 2016, Allen Morris. Stained glass, Tewkesbury Abbey.
20 Saturday Jul 2019
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