November 10, 2012
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: Pope St. Leo the Great
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+ First Reading: Philippians 4:10-19
10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
12 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
15 You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.
17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
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+ Psalm: Psalms 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a and 9
1b Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
2 His offspring† will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
6 For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
8a His heart is established.
9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.
His righteousness endures forever.
His horn will be exalted with honor.
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+ Gospel: Luke 16:9-15
9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
10 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and Mammon."‡
14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
‡16:13: "Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
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+ Today's Reading: The Wisdom Of Solomon 18:1-15、19:4-9
1 But for your holy ones there was great light;
And the Egyptians, hearing their voice but seeing not their form,
Counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered,
2 Yet for that they do not hurt them now, though wronged by them before, they are thankful;
And because they had been at variance with them, they made supplication to them.
3 Whereas you did provide for your people a burning pillar of fire,
To be a guide for their unknown journey,
And withal a * kindly sun for their † proud exile.
4 For well did ‡ the Egyptians deserve to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
They who had kept in close ward your sons,
Through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to § the race of men.
5 After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones,
And when a single child had been cast forth and saved ** to convict them of their sin,
You took away from them their multitude of children,
And destroyed all their host together in a mighty flood.
6 Of that night were our fathers made aware beforehand,
That, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted:
7 So by your people was expected salvation of the righteous and destruction of the enemies;
8 For as you did take vengeance on the adversaries,
†† By the same means, calling us to yourself, you did glorify us.
9 For holy children ‡‡ of good men offered sacrifice in secret,
And with one consent they took upon themselves the covenant of the §§ divine law,
That *** they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils;
The fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise.
10 But there sounded back in discord the cry of the enemies,
††† And a piteous voice of lamentation for children was borne abroad.
11 And servant along with master punished with a like just doom,
And commoner suffering the same as king,
12 Yes, all the people together, under one form of death,
Had with them corpses without number;
For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,
Since at a single ‡‡‡ stroke their §§§ nobler offspring was consumed.
13 For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments,
Upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God's son.
14 For while peaceful silence enwrapped all things,
And night in her own swiftness was in mid course,
15 Your all-powerful word leaped from heaven out of * the royal † throne,
A stern warrior, into the midst of the ‡ doomed land,
4:4 For * the doom which they deserved was drawing them † to this end,
And it made them forget the things that had befallen them,
That they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking to their torments,
5 And that your people might ‡ journey on by a marvelous road,
But they themselves might find a strange death.
6 For the whole creation, each part in its several kind, was fashioned again anew,
Ministering to your several commandments,
That your § servants might be guarded free from hurt.
7 Then was [*]saw the cloud that shadowed the camp,
And dry land rising up out of what before was water,
Out of the Red sea an unhindered highway,
And a grassy plain out of the violent surge;
8 ** By which they passed over with all their hosts,
These that were covered with your hand,
Having [*]saw strange marvels.
9 For like horses they roamed at large,
And they skipped about like lambs,
Praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.
*18:3: Gr. unharmful.
†18:3: Or, aspiring
‡18:4: Gr. they.
§18:4: Or, future time Gr. the age.
**18:5: Or, to be to them a rebuke
††18:8: Gr. By this.
‡‡18:9: Or, of blessing Gr. of good men, or, of good things.
§§18:9: Gr. law of divineness.
***18:9: Some authorities read the saints would partake...perils; already leading the fathers' songs of praise.
†††18:10: Some authorities read And was piteously borne abroad in lamentation for children.
‡‡‡18:12: Gr. turn of the scale.
§§§18:12: Or, more cherished
*18:15: Or, your
†18:15: Gr. thrones.
‡18:15: Or, destroying
*19:4: Or, their desert by necessity was
†19:4: Some authorities read to this at last.
‡19:5: Some authorities read make trial of.
§19:6: Or, children
**19:8: Or, Through
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