July 1, 2013
Monday of the Thirteenth 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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+ Saints: St. Arnulf of Metz
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Gospel: Matthew 8:18-22
18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
19 A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
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Genesis 18:16-33
16 The men rose up from there, and looked towards Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
17 The LORD said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
20 The LORD said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
22 The men turned from there, and went towards Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
23 Abraham came near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
26 The LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?"
He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?"
He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?"
He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?"
He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
33 The LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
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* 1 Samuel 7:15-8:22
7:15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
16 He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
17 His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the LORD there.
8:1 When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.
5 They said to him, "Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us."
Samuel prayed to the LORD.
7 The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.
9 Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them."
10 Samuel told all the LORD's words to the people who asked him for a king.
11 He said, "This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
12 He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
15 He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
16 He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
17 He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
18 You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,
20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
22 The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king."
Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go to your own city."
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