October 29, 2012
Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time.
We hope that today is a good day.
Today's Bible story based on the calendar of the Catholic Church.
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Most of these contents are things of The World English Bible.
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We hope that everyone in the peace of the Lord.
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+ Saints:
St. Narcissus
Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka
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+ First Reading: Ephesians 4:32-5:8
32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
5:1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7 Therefore don't be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
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+ Psalm: Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
1 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand on the path of sinners,
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in Yahweh's*"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations. law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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+ Gospel: Luke 13:10-17
10 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity."
13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.
14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
15 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
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+ Today's Reading: The Wisdom Of Solomon 1:16-2:1a、10-24
1:16 But ungodly men by their hands and their words called ††† death to them:
Deeming him a friend they ‡‡‡ consumed away,
And they made a covenant with him,
Because they are worthy to be of his portion.
2:1a For they said * within themselves, reasoning not aright,
Short and sorrowful is our life;
2:10 Let us oppress the righteous poor;
Let us not spare the widow,
Nor reverence the hairs of the old man gray for length of years.
11 But let our strength be to us a law of righteousness;
For that which is weak is ‡‡‡ found to be of no service.
12 But let us lie in wait for the righteous man,
Because he is of disservice to us,
And is contrary to our works,
And upbraids us with sins against §§§ the law,
And lays to our charge sins against our discipline.
13 He professes to have knowledge of God,
And names himself * servant of the Lord.
14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.
15 He is grievous to us even to behold,
Because his life is unlike other men's,
And his paths are of strange fashion.
16 We were accounted of him as base metal,
And he abstains from our ways as from uncleannesses.
The latter end of the righteous he calls happy;
And he vaunts that God is his father.
17 Let us see if his words be true,
And let us try what shall befall in the ending of his life.
18 For if the righteous man is God's son, he will uphold him,
And he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.
19 With outrage and torture let us put him to the test,
That we may learn his gentleness,
And may prove his patience under wrong.
20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death;
For † he shall be visited according to his words.
21 Thus reasoned they, and they were led astray;
For their ‡ wickedness blinded them,
22 And they knew not the mysteries of God,
Neither hoped they for wages of holiness,
Nor did they judge that there is a prize for blameless souls.
23 Because God created man for incorruption,
And made him an image of his own § proper being;
24 But by the envy of the devil death entered into the world,
And they that are of his portion make trial thereof.
†††1:16: Or, Hades Gr. him.
‡‡‡1:16: Or, were consumed with love of him
*2:1: Or, among
‡‡‡2:11: Gr. convicted.
§§§2:12: Or, law
*2:13: Or, child
†2:20: Gr. there shall be a visitation of him out of his words.
‡2:21: Or, malice
§2:23: Some authorities read everlastingness.
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