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August 13, 2005Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 35 Reading IJos 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 the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling.As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." But the people answered, "Far...

August 13, 2004 Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 35 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IEz 16:1-15, 60, 63 or 16:59-63 The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations. Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you are of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. As for your birth, the day you were born your navel cord was not cut; you were neither washed with water nor anointed, nor were you rubbed with...

August 13, 2003Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Wednesday 35 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IDt 34:1-12 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,the headland of Pisgah which faces Jericho,and the LORD showed him all the land—Gilead, and as far as Dan, all Naphtali,the land of Ephraim and Manasseh,all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,the Negeb, the circuit of the Jordanwith the lowlands at Jericho, city of palms,and as far as Zoar.The LORD then said to him, "This is the landwhich I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobthat...

August 13, 2002Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday Week 36 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IEz 2:8—3:4 The Lord God said to me:As for you, son of man, obey me when I speak to you:be not rebellious like this house of rebellion,but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me,in which was a written scroll which he unrolled before me.It was covered with writing front and back,and written on it was: Lamentation and wailing and woe! He said to me: Son of...