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Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 14:12-14"Rather, when you hold a banquet,invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."...

Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 14:1-6On a sabbath Jesus went to dineat the home of one of the leading Pharisees,and the people there were observing him carefully.In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy.Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking,"Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?"...

Join Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, in this One On One interview with author James W. Douglass, as they discuss Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Martin, Malcolm, and RFKhttps://maryknoll.link/bxyHere at last is the long-awaited sequel to James Douglass's bestselling work, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Wh...

Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 13:31-35"Jerusalem, Jerusalem,you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,how many times I yearned to gather your children togetheras a hen gathers her brood under her wings,but you were unwilling!Behold, your house will be abandoned.But I tell you, you will not see me until the time com...

Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 13:22-30"And people will come from the east and the westand from the north and the southand will recline at table in the Kingdom of God.For behold, some are last who will be first,and some are first who will be last.”...

Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, ApostlesLuke 6:12-16Jesus went up to the mountain to pray,and he spent the night in prayer to God.When day came, he called his disciples to himself,and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles:Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew,James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,Thomas, James the ...

Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 13:10-17Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.And a woman was there who for eighteen yearshad been crippled by a spirit;she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,"Woman, you are set free of your infirmity."He laid his hands on ...

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:54-59Jesus said to the crowds,"When you see a cloud rising in the westyou say immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does;and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the southyou say that it is going to be hot–and so it is.You hypocrites!You know how to interpret the appearan...

Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:49-53Jesus said to his disciples:"I have come to set the earth on fire,and how I wish it were already blazing!There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!"...

Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:39-48"Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.Truly, I say to you, he will put himin charge of all his property."...

Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:35-38Jesus said to his disciples:"Gird your loins and light your lampsand be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding,ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks."...

Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:13-21Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,"Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me."He replied to him,"Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?"Then he said to the crowd,"Take care to guard against all greed,for though one may be rich,one's life does not consist o...