9.19.2012

Today's Bible story

September 19, 2012

Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time

We hope that today is a good day.

Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendar.php

Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
http://ebible.org/web/

We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.

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+ Saints: St. Emily de Rodat

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+ First Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13

12:31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.

3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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+ Psalm: Psalms 33:2-3, 4-5, 12 and 22

2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

3 Sing to him a new song.
Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

4 For the word of Yahweh is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.

5 He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh,
since we have hoped in you.

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+ Gospel: Luke 7:31-35

31 †"To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

35 Wisdom is justified by all her children."

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