August 20, 2019
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
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Gospel : Matthew 19:23-30
23 Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into God's Kingdom."
25 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"
26 Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
27 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
28 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.
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Judges 6:11-24a
11 the LORD's angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
12 the LORD's angel appeared to him, and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valour!"
13 Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."
14 The LORD looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?"
15 He said to him, "O Lord,* how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
16 The LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
17 He said to him, "If now I have found favour in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
18 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you."
He said, "I will wait until you come back."
19 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah † of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth."
He did so.
21 Then the LORD's angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the LORD's angel departed out of his sight.
22 Gideon saw that he was the LORD's angel; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD's angel face to face!"
23 The LORD said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die."
24a Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it "the LORD is Peace."
*6:15: The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."
†6:19: 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
‡6:24: or, Shalom
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* The World English Bible
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◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
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◇ King James Version Bible Online
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◇ Chibadera Catholic Church
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