Today's Bible story *

　September 13, 2025

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Memorial of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

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Gospel : Luke 6:43-49

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.

46
　 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

47
Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you who he is like.

48
He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

49
But he who hears and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."
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1 Timothy 1:15-17

15
　 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

16
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 12, 2025

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Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 6:39-42

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.

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1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14

1
　 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ† our hope,
2
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

12
　 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,

13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 11, 2025

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Thursday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 6:27-38

27
　 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

28
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

29
To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.

30
Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

31
　 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

32
　 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

33
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

36
"Therefore be merciful,
even as your Father is also merciful.

37
Don't judge,
and you won't be judged.
Don't condemn,
and you won't be condemned.
Set free,
and you will be set free.

38
　 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

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Colossians 3:12-17

12
　 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

13
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

14
　 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

15
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

17
　 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 10, 2025

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Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 6:20-26

20
　 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said:
"Blessed are you who are poor,
for God's Kingdom is yours.

21
Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.

22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

24
　 "But woe to you who are rich!
For you have received your consolation.

25
Woe to you, you who are full now,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.

26
Woe, when men speak well of you,
for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

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Colossians 3:1-11

1
　 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

5　 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

6 For these things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them,

8 but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 9, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest

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Gospel : Luke 6:12-19

12
　 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

13
When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

14
Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

15
Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon who was called the Zealot;

16
Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

17
　 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

18
as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits; and they were being healed.

19
All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

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Colossians 2:6-15

6
　 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

8
　 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.

9
For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

10
and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

11
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

14
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. 15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 8, 2025

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Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Gospel : Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23

1
　 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,† the son of David, the son of Abraham.

2
　 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

3
Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

4
Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.

5
Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

6
Jesse became the father of King David. David the king‡ became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah's wife.

7
Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.

8
Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.

9
Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.

10
Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.

11
Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

12
　 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.

13
Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.

14
Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.

15
Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.

16
Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

18
　 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

19
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

20
But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

21
She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

22
　 Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

23
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and shall give birth to a son.
They shall call his name Immanuel,"
which is, being interpreted, "God with us."

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Micah 5:2-5a
（Micah 5:1-4a）**

2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
being small among the clans of Judah,
out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

3
Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth.
Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

4
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the LORD,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

5a
He will be our peace


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Romans 8:28-30

28
　 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 7, 2025

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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 14:25-33

25
Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

26
"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

27
Whoever doesn't bear his own cross and come after me, can't be my disciple.

28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn't able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

30
saying, 'This man began to build and wasn't able to finish.'

31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.

33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

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Wisdom 9:13-18b

13
For who knows God's counsel,
or who can conceive what the Lord intends?

14
For the deliberations of mortals are timid,
and uncertain our plans.

15
For the corruptible body burdens the soul
and the earthly tent weighs down the mind with its many concerns.

16
Scarcely can we guess the things on earth,
and only with difficulty grasp what is at hand;
but things in heaven, who can search them out?

17
Or who can know your counsel, unless you give Wisdom
and send your holy spirit from on high?

18
Thus were the paths of those on earth made straight,
and people learned what pleases you,
and were saved by Wisdom.


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Philemon 9-10, 12-17

9
　 yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,

12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

13
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

14
But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

15
For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,

16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother--especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

17
　If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 6, 2025

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Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 6:1-5

1
　 Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

2
But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

3
　 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

4
how he entered into God's house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

5
He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

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Colossians 1:21-23

21
　 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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　September 5, 2025

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Friday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 5:33-39

33
　 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

34
　 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."

36
　 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

37
No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.

38
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

39
No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.' "

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Colossians 1:15-20

15
　 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

17
He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

18
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

19
For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

20
and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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　September 4, 2025

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Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 5:1-11

1
　 Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

2
He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

3
He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

4
　 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."

5
　 Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."

6
When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

7
They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

8
But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."

9
For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

10
and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

　Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."

11
When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

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Colossians 1:9-14

9
　 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

11
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

12
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

13
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

14
in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

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　September 3, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

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Gospel : Luke 4:38-44

38
　 He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.

39
He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

40
When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

41
Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

42
　 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.

43
But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of God's Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."

44
He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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Colossians 1:1-8

1
　Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2
to the saints and faithful brothers‡ in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3
　We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

4
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

7
even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

8
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 2, 2025

Have a good day!

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Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 4:31-37

31
　 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

32
and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

33
In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,

34
saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!"

35
　 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

36
　 Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

37
News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11

1
　 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

3
For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

4
But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

5
You are all children of light and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

6
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

9
　 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

11
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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Today's Bible story *

　September 1, 2025

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Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 4:16-30

16
　 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

17
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,†
to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are crushed,

19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

20
　 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

22
　 All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"

23
　 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.' "

24
He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

25
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

26
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

27
There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

28
　They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.

29
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

30
But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

13
　 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

15
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

17
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

18
Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 31, 2025

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 14:1, 7-14

1
　 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

7
　 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

8
"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

9
and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

10
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

12
　 He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

14
and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

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Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 **

17
My son, conduct your affairs with humility,

and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.

18
Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,

and you will find mercy in the sight of God.

20
For great is the power of the Lord;

by the humble he is glorified.

28
When the proud are afflicted, there is no cure;

for they are offshoots of an evil plant.h

29
The mind of the wise appreciates proverbs,

and the ear that listens to wisdom rejoices.


** Sirach
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/Sirach/3?17

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Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a

18
　 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

19
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

22
　 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

23
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

24
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 30, 2025

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Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 25:14-30

14
　 "For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.

15
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

16
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.

17 In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.

18
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord's money.

19
　 "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them.

20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.'

21
　 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

22
　 "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.'

23
　 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

24
　 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn't sow, and gathering where you didn't scatter.

25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'

26
　 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

28
Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.

30
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

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1 Thessalonians 4:9-11

9
　 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

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Today's Bible story *

　August 29, 2025

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Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist

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Gospel : Mark 6:17-29

17
　 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.

18
For John had said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

19
Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,

20
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

21
　 Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

22
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

23
He swore to her, "Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

24
　She went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"

　She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

25
　 She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."

26
　 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.

27
Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring John's head; and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

28
and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

29
　 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

1
　 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

4
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

5
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God,

6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 28, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

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Gospel : Matthew 24:42-51

42
　 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

43
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

44
Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

45
　"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

46
Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

47
Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

48
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

49
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

50
the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

51
and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

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1 Thessalonians 3:7-13

7
　 For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

9
For what thanksgiving can we give again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

11
　 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

12
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

13
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 27, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Monica

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Gospel : Matthew 23:27-32

27
　 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29
　"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

30
and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

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1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

9
　For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

12
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

13
　 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 26, 2025

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Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 23:23-26

23
　"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

25
　 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

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1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

1
　 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

2
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

3
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak--not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

8
　 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 25, 2025

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Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 23:13-22

13
　 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

14
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

16
　 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'

17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

18
And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.'

19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.

21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.

22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

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1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 8b-10

1
　 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2
　 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

8b
but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 24, 2025

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 13:22-30

22
　 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

23
One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"

　He said to them,

24
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

25
When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

26
Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

27
He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'

28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God's Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

29
They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God's Kingdom.

30
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."

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Isaiah 66:18-21

18
　 "For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

19
　 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

20
They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the LORD's house.

21
Of them I will also select priests and Levites," says the LORD.

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Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13

5
　 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
"My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are reproved by him;

6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,
and chastises every son whom he receives."

7
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

11
　 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 23, 2025

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Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 23:1-12

1
　 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

2
saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

3
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

6
and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

7 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.

8
But you are not to be called 'Rabbi', for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

10
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

11
But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17

2:1
　Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

2
Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor."

　She said to her, "Go, my daughter."

3
She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

8
　 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don't go to glean in another field, and don't go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

9
Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven't I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn."

10
　 Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?"

11
　 Boaz answered her, "I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

4:13
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

14
The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

15
He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him."

16
Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.

17
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "A son is born to Naomi". They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 22, 2025

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Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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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 neighbor as yourself.'

40
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

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Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22

1:1
　 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 with 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
　Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed 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.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 21, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope

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Gospel : Matthew 22:1-14

1
　 Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,

2
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

3
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

4
Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!" '

5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;

6
and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

7
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

8
　"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.

9
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.' 10 Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

11
　 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,

12
and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.

13
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

14
For many are called, but few chosen."

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Judges 11:29-39a

29
　 Then the LORD's Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

30
Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

31
then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."

32
　 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand.

33
He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

34
　 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

35
When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I can't go back."

36
　 She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

37
Then she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

38
　He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

39a
At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed.

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Today's Bible story *

　August 20, 2025

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Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

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Gospel : Matthew 20:1-16

1
　 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

2
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

3
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

4
He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

7
　 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.'
"He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

8
　 "When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

9
"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

10
When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

12
saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

13
　 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?

14
Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

15
Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

16
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

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Judges 9:6-15

6
　 All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

7
When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

8
The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'

9
　 "But the olive tree said to them, 'Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

10
　 "The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

11
　 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

12
　 "The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.'

13
　"The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

14
　 "Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'Come and reign over us.'

15
　"The bramble said to the trees, 'If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'

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　August 19, 2025

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Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 19:23-30

23
　 Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

24
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into God's Kingdom."

25
　 When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"

26
　 Looking at them, Jesus said, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

27
　Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?"

28
　 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

29
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

30
But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.

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Judges 6:11-24a

11
　 The LORD's angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

12
The LORD's angel appeared to him, and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!"

13
　 Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."

14
　 The LORD looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?"

15
　 He said to him, "O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."

16
　 The LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."

17
　 He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

18
Please don't go away until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you."
He said, "I will wait until you come back."

19
　 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

20
　 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth."

　He did so.

21
Then the LORD's angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the LORD's angel departed out of his sight.

22
　 Gideon saw that he was the LORD's angel; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the LORD's angel face to face!"

23
　 The LORD said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die."

24a
　 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it "The LORD is Peace."

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　August 18, 2025

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Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 19:16-22

16
　 Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"

17
　 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

18
　He said to him, "Which ones?"
Jesus said, " 'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'

19 'Honor your father and your mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "

20
　The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"

21
　Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

22
But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

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Judges 2:11-19

11
　 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD's sight, and served the Baals.

12
They abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.

13
They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

14
The LORD's anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

15
Wherever they went out, the LORD's hand was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.

16
The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

17
Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD's commandments. They didn't do so.

18
When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

19
But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn't cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

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August 17, 2025

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 12:49-53

49
　 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

51
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

52
For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53
They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10

4
　 Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but harm."

5
　 Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can't do anything to oppose you."

6
　 Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

7
　 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin's gate),

8
Ebedmelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

9
"My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city."

10
　 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies."

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Hebrews 12:1-4

1
　 Therefore let's also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let's run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3
　 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

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　August 16, 2025

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Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Matthew 19:13-15

13
　Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

14
But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these."

15
He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

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Joshua 24:14-29

14
　"Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

15
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

16
　 The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

17
for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.

18
The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God."

19
　 Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

20
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

21
　 The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD."

22
Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him."

　They said, "We are witnesses."

23
　"Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel."

24
　 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to his voice."

25
　 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

26
Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

27
Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the LORD's words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."

28
So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

29
　 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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