March 3, 2019
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel: Luke 6:39-45
39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
43 For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
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Sirach 27:4-7
4 In the shaking of a sieve, the refuse remains;
So the filth of man in his reasoning.
5 The furnace will prove the potter's vessels;
And the trial of a man is in his reasoning.
6 The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof;
So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.
7 Praise no man before you hear him reason;
For this is the trial of men.
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1 Corinthians 15:54-58
54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."☆
55 "Death, where is your sting?
Hades,§ where is your victory?"☆
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
☆15:54: Isaiah 25:8
§15:55: or, Hell
☆15:55: compare Hosea 13:14
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ March 3, 2019 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/2019/19_03_03.mp3
◇ Daily Readings March 3, 2019
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030319.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2019-03-03
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Luke.6
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Luke&chapter=6&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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