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19 September 2024 Thursday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St Januarius (San Gennaro) Cathedral, Naples, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 15:1-11I preached what the others preach, and you all believedBrothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, the gospel that you received and in which you are firmly established; because the gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I preached to you – believing anything else will not lead to anything. Well then, in the first place, I taught you what I had been taught...

18 September 2024 Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Basilica of St. Joseph of Cupertino – Osimo, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13The supremacy of charityBe ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in...

17 September 2024 Tuesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Benedictine Abbey of St. Hildegard, overlooking the towns of Rüdesheim and Bingen, Germany.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31You together are Christ's body: each of you a different partJust as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to...

It’s back-to-school time in America. In the past few weeks, more than 54 million kids went to school at the kindergarten through 12th grade level. Add preschool and college to that number, and 79.5 million Americans are students. That’s nearly a quarter of the entire population of the country. Most of these students go to public schools, but we have seen significant shifts in the past few years. The US Census Bureau says about seven million children, or about 13 percent of school aged students, go to private schools. This includes about 3.5 million homeschooled children. Both numbers represent significant...

16 September 2024 Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs on Monday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St. Cornelius and Cyprian church, Lippborg, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 11:17-26,33If each one hurries to be first, it is not the Lord's Supper you are eatingOn the subject of instructions, I cannot say that you have done well in holding meetings that do you more harm than good. In the first place, I hear that when you all come together as a community,...

15 September 2024 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Nicomedes, northern Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 50:5-9I offered my back to those who struck meThe Lord has opened my ear.For my part, I made no resistance,neither did I turn away.I offered my back to those who struck me,my cheeks to those who tore at my beard;I did not cover my faceagainst insult and spittle.The Lord comes to my help,so that I am untouched by the insults.So, too, I set my face like flint;I know I shall not be shamed.My vindicator is here at hand. Does...

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We have been getting a number of rousing challenges from Jesus in the past several weeks, as our Readings have followed the progress of his ministry, and Jesus repeatedly makes clear that following him is not going to be easy in any way. This Sunday we get another challenge from Jesus to “fish or cut bait” in our relationship with him. Paradoxically, however, if we think we are going to preserve our lives and comfort by turning away from him, Jesus warns us: long term, that’s a bad strategy. 1. Our First Reading is one of the Servant Songs of...

Mmm dd, 2024 TITLE St. John Chrysostom, Eminence, KYReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-27We go into strict training, like fighters at the gamesI do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you...

12 September 2024 Thursday of week 23 in Ordinary Time Saint Ailbe's Church. Emly, Co Tipperary, Ireland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 8:1-7,11-13Your brethren may be weaker than you: do not lead them astrayNow about food sacrificed to idols. ‘We all have knowledge’; yes, that is so, but knowledge gives self-importance – it is love that makes the building grow. A man may imagine he understands something, but still not understand anything in the way that he ought to. But any man who loves God is known by him. Well then, about eating food sacrificed...

11 September 2024 Wednesday of week 23 in Ordinary Time St. Felix and Regula, Zurich, SwitzerlandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 7:25-31The world as we know it is passing awayAbout remaining celibate, I have no directions from the Lord but give my own opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, has stayed faithful. Well then, I believe that in these present times of stress this is right: that it is good for a man to stay as he is. If you are tied to a wife, do not look for freedom; if you are free...

CV NEWS FEED // Several parishes in the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois, will host prayer services this month in observance of the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. The Day, which is observed on the second Saturday of September, falls this year on September 14, according to the Day of Remembrance’s website. The official Rockford diocesan newspaper, The Observer, reported that St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Parish in West Dundee will observe the Day of Remembrance with a memorial service at 9 a.m., with a breakfast preceding. A rosary will be prayed at the Memorial Garden for the Unborn...

10 September 2024 Tuesday of week 23 in Ordinary TimeSt. Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Church - The Bronx, N.Y.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 6:1-11Do not drag your brother to a pagan for judgementHow dare one of your members take up a complaint against another in the law courts of the unjust instead of before the saints? As you know, it is the saints who are to ‘judge the world’; and if the world is to be judged by you, how can you be unfit to judge trifling cases? Since we are also to judge angels,...

9 September 2024 Saint Peter Claver on Monday of week 23 in Ordinary Time St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, New Orleans, LA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 5:1-8Get rid of the old yeast of evil and wickednessI have been told as an undoubted fact that one of you is living with his father’s wife. This is a case of sexual immorality among you that must be unparalleled even among pagans. How can you be so proud of yourselves? You should be in mourning. A...

"Reverse Psychology" describes the attempt to motivate individuals to action by telling them to do the opposite of what is actually desired. The method is based on the assumption of the perversity of human nature. Since we tend to do disobey whatever commands we receive, why not command what is wrong, and then our natural "disobedience" will result in good? It sounds fine in theory, but I've tried it with my kids: "Don't do your chores. Don't finish your schoolwork. Eat up all the remaining ice cream." Reverse psychology doesn't seem to work in practice. In this Sunday's Gospel, though,...

6 September 2024 Friday of week 22 in Ordinary Time Collegiate Church of Saint Begge, Andenne, BelgiumReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 4:1-5The Lord alone is our judgePeople must think of us as Christ’s servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. What is expected of stewards is that each one should be found worthy of his trust. Not that it makes the slightest difference to me whether you, or indeed any human tribunal, find me worthy or not. I will not even pass judgement on myself. True, my conscience does not reproach me at all, but...

5 September 2024 Thursday of week 22 in Ordinary Time St. Rita’s Convent, Missionaries of Charity, the Bronx, United StatesReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 3:18-23The wisdom of the world is foolishness to GodMake no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise. Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As scripture says: The Lord knows wise men’s thoughts: he knows how useless they are; or...

4 September 2024 Wednesday of week 22 in Ordinary TimeSaint Rose of Viterbo Church and Convent, Santiago de Queretaro, Queretaro, MexicoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 3:1-9Neither the planter nor the waterer matters, only God, who makes things growBrothers, I myself was unable to speak to you as people of the Spirit: I treated you as sensual men, still infants in Christ. What I fed you with was milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and indeed, you are still not ready for it since you are still unspiritual. Isn’t that obvious...

3 September 2024 Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor on Tuesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time The Church of St Gregory the Great in Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 2:10-16The Spirit reaches even the depths of GodThe 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...

2 September 2024 Monday of week 22 in Ordinary Time Saint-Just in Lyon, France.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 2:1-5The only knowledge I claimed was of the crucified ChristWhen 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 ‘fear and trembling’ and in...