August 23, 2013
Friday of the Twentieth 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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+ Saints: St. Rose of Lima
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=577
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Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'☆
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.'☆
40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
☆22:37: Deuteronomy 6:5
☆22:39: Leviticus 19:18
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Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22
1 In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
3 Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.
4 They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.
6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD * had visited his people in giving them bread.
14b then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
15 She said, "Behold,† your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."
16 Ruth said, "Don't urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God‡ my God.
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
*1:6: When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, "LORD" or "GOD" is the translation of God's Proper Name.
†1:15: "Behold", from "??????", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
‡1:16: The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "?????????" (Elohim).
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* Ephesians 3:14-21
14 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
21 to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
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