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August 18, 2006 Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 34 Reading 1Ez 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 salt, nor swathed in swaddling clothes.No one looked on you with...

August 18, 2005Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 36 Reading IJgs 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 belong to the LORD.I shall offer him up as a burnt offering." Jephthah then went on to the Ammonites to fight against them,and the LORD delivered...

August 21 Spiritual Bouquet: May they be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and that Thou hast loved them even as Thou hast loved Me. St. John 17:23 SAINT JANE FRANCES de CHANTALFoundress of the Order of the Visitation of The Blessed Virgin Mary(1572-1641) At the age of sixteen, Jane Frances de Fremyot, already a motherless child, was placed under the care of a worldly-minded governess. In this crisis she offered herself to the Mother of God, and secured Mary’s protection for life. When a Protestant sought her hand in marriage, she...

August 18, 2003Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Monday 36 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJdgs 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 anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,and he delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them.He allowed them to fall into...