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September 4, 2007                                     Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week                                      in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday 32       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11 Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters,you have no need for anything to be written to you.For you yourselves know very wellthat the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.When people are saying, “Peace and security,”then sudden disaster comes upon them,like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness,for that...

September 3, 2007                                  Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great,                                   pope and doctor of the Church Psalm: Monday 32       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:13-18 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,about those who have fallen asleep,so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.For if we believe that Jesus died and rose,so too will God, through Jesus,bring with him those who have fallen asleep.Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord,that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the...

September 1, 2007                                 Saturday of the Twenty-first Week                         in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:9-11 Brothers and sisters:On the subject of fraternal charityyou have no need for anyone to write you,for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.Indeed, you do this for all the brothers throughout Macedonia.Nevertheless we urge you, brothers and sisters, to progress even more,and to aspire to live a tranquil life,to mind your own affairs,and to work with your own...

August 31, 2007                                     Friday of the Twenty-first Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:1-8 Brothers and sisters,we earnestly ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that,as you received from ushow you should conduct yourselves to please God– and as you are conducting yourselves– you do so even more.For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. This is the will of God, your holiness:that you refrain from immorality,that...

August 30, 2007                                 Thursday of the Twenty-first Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 31     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 3:7-13 We have been reassured about you, brothers and sisters,in our every distress and affliction, through your faith.For we now live, if you stand firm in the Lord. What thanksgiving, then, can we render to God for you,for all the joy we feel on your account before our God?Night and day we pray beyond measure to see you in personand to...

August 29, 2007                                    Memorial of the Martyrdom of                                     Saint John the Baptist Psalm: Wednesday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 2:9-13 You recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery.Working night and day in order not to burden any of you,we proclaimed to you the Gospel of God.You are witnesses, and so is God,how devoutly and justly and blamelesslywe behaved toward you believers.As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,exhorting and encouraging you...

August 28, 2007                                     Memorial of Saint Augustine,                                     bishop and doctor of the Church Psalm: Tuesday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 2:1-8 You yourselves know, brothers and sisters,that our reception among you was not without effect.Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated,as you know, in Philippi,we drew courage through our Godto speak to you the Gospel of God with much struggle.Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives,nor did it work through deception.But as we...

August 27, 2007                                     Memorial of Saint Monica Psalm: Monday 31     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the Church of the Thessaloniansin God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you,remembering you in our prayers,unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of loveand endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ,before our God and Father,knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen.For our Gospel...

August 25, 2007                                     Saturday of the Twentieth Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 Naomi had a prominent kinsman named Boaz,of the clan of her husband Elimelech.Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,“Let me go and glean ears of grain in the fieldof anyone who will allow me that favor.”Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter,” and she went.The field she entered to glean after the harvestershappened to be the section belonging...

August 24, 2007                                 Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Psalm: Friday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Rv 21:9b-14 The angel spoke to me, saying,“Come here.I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”He took me in spirit to a great, high mountainand showed me the holy city Jerusalemcoming down out of heaven from God.It gleamed with the splendor of God.Its radiance was like that of a precious stone,like jasper, clear as crystal.It had a massive, high wall,with twelve gates where twelve angels were stationedand on which names were...

August 23, 2007                                     Thursday of the Twentieth Week                                         in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 11:29-39a The Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah.He passed through Gilead and Manasseh,and through Mizpah-Gilead as well,and from there he went on to the Ammonites.Jephthah made a vow to the LORD.“If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said,“whoever comes out of the doors of my houseto meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonitesshall...

August 22, 2007                                         Memorial of the Queenship                                       of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Wednesday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 9:6-15 All the citizens of Shechem and all Beth-millo came togetherand proceeded to make Abimelech kingby the terebinth at the memorial pillar in Shechem. When this was reported to him,Jotham went to the top of Mount Gerizim and, standing there,cried out to them in a loud voice:“Hear me, citizens of Shechem, that God may then hear you!Once the trees...

August 21, 2007                                     Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Psalm: Tuesday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 6:11-24a The angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth in Ophrahthat belonged to Joash the Abiezrite.While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine pressto save it from the Midianites,the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said,“The LORD is with you, O champion!”Gideon said to him, “My Lord, if the LORD is with us,why has all this happened to us?Where are his wondrous deeds...

August 20, 2007                                     Memorial of Saint Bernard,                                     abbot and doctor of the Church Psalm: Monday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 2:11-19 The children of Israel offended the LORD by serving the Baals.Abandoning the LORD, the God of their fathers,who led them out of the land of Egypt,they followed the other gods of the various nations around them,and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD. Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the Ashtaroth,the...

August 18, 2007                                     Saturday of the Nineteenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 29     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jos 24:14-29 Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem,and addressed them, saying: “Fear the LORD and serve him completely and sincerely.Cast out the gods your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt,and serve the LORD.If it does not please you to serve the LORD,decide today whom you will serve,the gods your fathers served beyond the Riveror the gods of...

August 17, 2007                                     Friday of the Nineteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jos 24:1-13 Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem,summoning their elders, their leaders,their judges and their officers.When they stood in ranks before God, Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: In times past your fathers, down to Terah,father of Abraham and Nahor,dwelt beyond the River and served other gods.But I brought your...

August 16, 2007                                     Thursday of the Nineteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 29           Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jos 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17 The LORD said to Joshua,“Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,that they may know I am with you, as I was with Moses.Now command the priests carrying the ark of the covenantto come to a halt in the Jordanwhen you reach the edge of the waters.” So Joshua said...

August 15, 2007                                 Solemnity of the Assumption of the                             Blessed Virgin Mary                            Mass during the Day Psalm: Wednesday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab God’s temple in heaven was opened,and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,with the moon under her feet,and on her head a crown of twelve stars.She was with child and wailed aloud...

August 15, 2007                                    Solemnity of the Assumption of the                             Blessed Virgin Mary, Vigil Psalm: Wednesday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Sm 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORDto the place which he had prepared for it.David also called together the sons of Aaron and the Levites. The Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with poles,as Moses had ordained according to the word of the LORD. David commanded the chiefs of the Levitesto appoint their kinsmen as...

August 13, 2007                                     Monday of the Nineteenth Week                                  in Ordinary Time Psalm: Monday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Dt 10:12-22 Moses said to the people:“And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of youbut to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly,to love and serve the LORD, your God,with all your heart and all your soul,to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORDwhich I enjoin on you today for your own good?Think! The heavens,...