August 14, 2013
Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
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. Maximillian Kolbe
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Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20
15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
16 But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.☆Deuteronomy 19:15
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them."
☆18:16: Deuteronomy 19:15
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Deuteronomy 34:1-12
1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. The LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,
3 and the south,*or, Negev and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
4 The LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.†or, seed' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the LORD's word.
6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
7 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
11 in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
*34:3: or, Negev
†34:4: or, seed
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* 2 Kings 6:24-25, 32-7:16
24 After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab*A kab was about 2 litres, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this evil is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
7:1 Elisha said, "Hear the LORD's word. the LORD says, 'Tomorrow about this time a seah*1 seah is about 7 litres or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks of fine flour will be sold for a shekel,†a shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much. and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"
2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, could this thing be?"
He said, "Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it."
3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die?
4 If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."
5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.
6 For the Lord‡The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai." had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us."
7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.
9 Then they said to one another, "We aren't doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let's go and tell the king's household."
10 So they came and called to the city gatekeepers; and they told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, not even a man's voice, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."
11 He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king's household within.
12 The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.'"
13 One of his servants answered, "Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let us send and see."
14 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king them sent out to the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see."
15 They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
16 The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah§1 seah is about 7 litres or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,**a shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much. according to the LORD's word.
*6:25: A kab was about 2 litres, so a fourth of a kab would be about 500 milliliters or about a pint
*7:1: 1 seah is about 7 litres or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
†7:1: a shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.
‡7:6: The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."
§7:16: 1 seah is about 7 litres or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
**7:16: a shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.
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