11.18.2017

 Today's Bible story *

November 18, 2017

I hope you have a nice day today too.

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Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel: Luke 18:1-8

1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

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Wisdom of Solomon 18:14-16, 19:6-9

14 For while peaceful silence enwrapped all things,
And night in her own swiftness was in mid course,

15 Your all-powerful word lept from heaven out of * the royal † throne,
A stern warrior, into the midst of the ‡ doomed land,

16 Bearing as a sharp sword your unfeigned commandment;
And standing it filled all things with death;
And while it touched the heaven it trode upon the earth.

19:6 For the whole creation, each part in its several kind, was fashioned again anew,
Ministering to your several commandments,
That your § servants might be guarded free from hurt.

7 Then the cloud that shadowed the camp was seen,
And dry land rising up out of what before was water,
Out of the Red sea an unhindered highway,
And a grassy plain out of the violent surge;

8 ** By which they passed over with all their hosts,
These that were covered with your hand,
Having seen strange marvels.

9 For like horses they roamed at large,
And they skipped about like lambs,
Praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.


*18:15: Or, your
†18:15: Gr. thrones.
‡18:15: Or, destroying
§19:6: Or, children
**19:8: Or, Through

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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/

◇ November 18, 2017 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/17_11_18.mp3

◇ Daily Readings November 18, 2017
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/111817.cfm

◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2017-11-18

◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.18

◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=18&verse=

◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm

◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/

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