October 31, 2012
Wednesday 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. Wolfgang, Bishop
St. Foillan
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+ First Reading: Ephesians 6:1-9
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth." *Deuteronomy 5:16
4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;
8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
*6:3: Deuteronomy 5:16
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+ Psalm: Psalms 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14
10 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh.
Your saints will extol you.
11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and talk about your power;
12 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Yahweh is faithful in all his words,
and loving in all his deeds.*
14 Yahweh upholds all who fall,
and raises up all those who are bowed down.
*145:13: Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.
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+ Gospel: Luke 13:22-30
22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.
23 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
He said to them,
24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'
27 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
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+ Today's Reading: The Wisdom Of Solomon 4:1-20
1 Better than this is childishness with virtue;
For in the memory * of virtue is immortality:
Because it is recognized both before God and before men.
2 When it is present, men imitate it;
And they long after it when it is departed:
And † throughout all time it marcheth crowned in triumph,
Victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled.
3 But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall be of no profit,
And ‡ with bastard § slips they shall not strike deep root,
Nor shall they establish a sure hold.
4 For even if these ** put forth boughs and flourish for a season, q1 Yet, standing unsure, they shall be shaken by the wind,
And by the violence of winds they shall be rooted out.
5 Their branches shall be broken off before they come to maturity,
and their fruit shall be useless,
Never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing.
6 For children unlawfully begotten are witnesses of wickedness
Against parents when God searcheth them out.
7 But a righteous man, though he die before his time, shall be at rest.
8 (For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time,
Nor is its measure given by number of years:
9 But understanding is gray hairs to men,
And an unspotted life is ripe old age.)
10 Being found well-pleasing to God he was beloved of him,
And while living among sinners he was translated:
11 He was caught away, lest †† wickedness should change his understanding,
Or guile deceive his soul.
12 (For the bewitching of naughtiness bedimmeth the things which are good,
And the giddy whirl of desire perverteth an innocent mind.)
13 Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long ‡‡ years;
14 For his soul was pleasing to the Lord:
Therefore §§ hasted he out of the midst of wickedness.
15 But as for the peoples, seeing and understanding not,
Neither laying *** this to heart,
That grace and mercy are with his chosen,
And that ††† he visiteth his holy ones:-
16 But a righteous man that is dead shall condemn the ungodly that are living,
And youth that is quickly perfected the many years of an unrighteous man's old age;
17 For the ungodly shall see a wise man's end,
And shall not understand what the Lord purposed concerning him,
And for what he safely kept him:-
18 They shall see, and they shall despise;
But them the Lord shall laugh to scorn.
And after this they shall become a dishonored carcase,
And ‡‡‡ a reproach among the dead for ever:
19 Because he shall dash them speechless to the ground,
And shall shake them from the foundations,
And they shall §§§ lie utterly waste, and they shall be in anguish,
And their memory shall perish.
20 They shall come, * when their sins are reckoned up, with coward fear;
And their lawless deeds shall convict them to their face.
*4:1: Gr. of it.
†4:2: Gr. in the age.
‡4:3: Gr. from
§4:3: Or, offshoots
**4:4: Gr. in boughs flourish.
††4:11: Or, malice
‡‡4:13: Gr. times.
§§4:14: Or, he hastened him away
***4:15: Gr. such a thing as this.
†††4:15: Gr. his visitation is with.
‡‡‡4:18: Or, be for outrage
§§§4:19: Or, be a perpetual desolation
*4:20: Or, when they reckon up their sins
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