November 8, 2012
Thursday of the Thirty-first 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. Godfrey of Amiens
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
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+ First Reading: Philippians 3:3-8a
3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
8a Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord,
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+ Psalm: Psalms 105:2-7
2 Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
3 Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
4 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done;
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
6 you offspring* of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is Yahweh, our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
*105:6: or, seed
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+ Gospel: Luke 15:1-10
1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
3 He told them this parable.
4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'
7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma* coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'
10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."
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+ Today's Reading: The Wisdom Of Solomon 16:2b-13、20-26
2 Instead of which punishment, you, bestowing benefits on your people,
Preparedst quails for food,
Food of * rare taste, to satisfy the desire of their appetite;
3 To the end that † your enemies, desiring food,
Might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them
Loathe even the necessary appetite;
But these, your people, having for a short space suffered lack,
Might even partake of food of ‡ rare taste.
4 For it was needful that upon those should come inexorable lack in their tyrannous dealing,
But that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented..
5 For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon § your people,
And they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents,
Your wrath continued not to the uttermost;
6 But for admonition were they troubled for a short space,
Having a token of salvation,
To put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law:
7 For he that turned toward it was not saved because of that which was [*]saw,
But because of you, the Saviour of all.
8 Yes, and in this did you persuade our enemies,
That you are he that delivers out of every evil.
9 For them verily the bites of locusts and flies did kill,
And there was not found a healing for their life,
Because they were worthy to be punished by such as these;
10 But your sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame,
For your mercy passed by where they were, and healed them.
11 For they were ** bitten, to put them in remembrance of your oracles;
And were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness,
They should become †† unable to be ‡‡ roused by your beneficence:
12 For of a truth it was neither herb nor mollifying plaister that cured them,
But your word, O Lord, which heals all things;
13 For you have authority over life and death,
And you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.
20 Instead whereof you gave your people angels' food to eat,
And bread ready for their use did you provide for them from heaven without their toil,
Bread having the virtue of every pleasant savor,
And agreeing to every taste;
21 For §§§ your * nature manifested your sweetness toward your children;
While that bread, ministering to the desire of the eater,
Tempered itself according to every man's choice.
22 But snow and ice endured fire, and melted not,
That men might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies,
Burning in the hail and flashing in the rains;
23 And † that this element again, in order that righteous men may be nourished,
Hath even forgotten its own power.
24 For the creation, ministering to you its maker,
Straineth its force against the unrighteous, for punishment,
And slackeneth it in behalf of them that trust in you, for beneficence.
25 Therefore at that time also, converting itself into all forms,
It ministered to your all-nourishing bounty,
According to the desire of them that ‡ made supplication;
26 That your sons, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn
That it is not the § growth of the earth's fruits that nourishes a man,
But that your word preserves them that trust you.
*16:2: Gr. strange.
†16:3: Gr. those.
‡16:3: Gr. strange.
§16:5: Gr. them.
**16:11: Gr. pricked
††16:11: Some authorities read bereft of help from your beneficence.
‡‡16:11: Gr. distracted, or, drawn away. The meaning is somewhat obscure.
§§16:14: Or, malice
***16:16: Or, denying that they knew you
†††16:18: Some authorities read know.
‡‡‡16:19: Gr. products
§§§16:21: Some authorities read the substance thereof.
*16:21: Or, creation Gr. substance.
†16:23: Some authorities omit that.
‡16:25: Or, had need
§16:26: Gr. generations.
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