November 12, 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: St. Josaphat
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+ First Reading: Titus 1:1-9
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;
3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
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+ Psalm: Psalms 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
1b The world, and those who dwell therein.
2 For he has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the floods.
3 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill?
Who may stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh,
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek your face—even Jacob.
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+ Gospel: Luke 17:1-6
1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."
5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
6 The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
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+ Today's Reading: 1 Maccabees 1:41-61
41 And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
42 and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king;
43 and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the sabbath.
44 And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,
45 and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the sabbaths and feasts,
46 and pollute the sanctuary and them that were holy;
47 that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine's flesh and unclean beasts:
48 and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;
49 so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.
50 And whoever shall not do according to the word of the king, he shall die.
51 According to all these words wrote he to his whole kingdom; and he appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city.
52 And from the people were gathered together to them many, every one that had forsaken the law; and they did evil things in the land;
53 and they made israel to hide themselves in every place of refuge which they had.
54 And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in § the hundred and forty and fifth year, they builded an abomination of desolation upon the ** altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they builded idol †† altars.
55 And at the doors of the houses and in the streets they burnt incense.
56 And they tore in pieces the books of the law which they found, and set them on fire.
57 And wherever was found with any a book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king's sentence delivered him to death.
58 Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those that were found month by month in the cities.
59 And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed upon the idol ‡‡ altar of God.
60 And §§ the women that had circumcised their children they put to death according to the commandment.
61 And they hanged their babes about their necks, and destroyed their houses, and them that had circumcised them.
§1:54: circa B.C. 168. See 2 Macc. v. 11.
**1:54: The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in ver. 59.
††1:54: The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in ver. 59.
‡‡1:59: The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in ver. 59.
§§1:60: See 2 Macc. vi. 10.
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