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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8.31.2025
8.30.2025
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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Have a good day!
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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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8.29.2025
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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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.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.28.2025
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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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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8.27.2025
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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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.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.26.2025
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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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.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.25.2025
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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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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8.24.2025
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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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.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.23.2025
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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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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8.22.2025
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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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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8.21.2025
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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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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8.20.2025
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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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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8.19.2025
Today's Bible story *
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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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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8.18.2025
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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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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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8.17.2025
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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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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8.16.2025
Today's Bible story *
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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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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8.15.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 15, 2025
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mass during the Day
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Gospel : Luke 1:39-56
39
Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
40
and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
41
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42
She called out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43
Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44
For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
45
Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
46
Mary said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord.
47
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
48
for he has looked at the humble state of his servant.
For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
49
For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
50
His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him.
51
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52
He has put down princes from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
53
He has filled the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.
54
He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
55
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and his offspring§ forever."
56
Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.
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Revelation 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB
11:19A
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple.
12:1
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
3
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-27a
20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
21
For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's at his coming.
24
Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
27a
For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mass during the Day
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Gospel : Luke 1:39-56
39
Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
40
and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
41
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42
She called out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43
Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44
For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
45
Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
46
Mary said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord.
47
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
48
for he has looked at the humble state of his servant.
For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
49
For he who is mighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
50
His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him.
51
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52
He has put down princes from their thrones,
and has exalted the lowly.
53
He has filled the hungry with good things.
He has sent the rich away empty.
54
He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
55
as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and his offspring§ forever."
56
Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.
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Revelation 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB
11:19A
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple.
12:1
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
3
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
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1 Corinthians 15:20-27a
20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
21
For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's at his coming.
24
Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
27a
For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."
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8.14.2025
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August 14, 2025
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Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
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Gospel : Matthew 18:21--19:1
18:21
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
22
Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
23
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
24
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
25
But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26
The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
27
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
28
"But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
29
"So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
31
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.
32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
33
Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
19:1
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17
7
The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8
You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.' "
9
Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
10a
Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you,
11
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
13
It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of GOD,§ the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap."
14
When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
15
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
16
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
17
The priests who bore the ark of the LORD's covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
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Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
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Gospel : Matthew 18:21--19:1
18:21
Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
22
Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
23
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
24
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
25
But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26
The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
27
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
28
"But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
29
"So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
31
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.
32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
33
Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
19:1
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17
7
The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8
You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.' "
9
Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
10a
Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you,
11
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
13
It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of GOD,§ the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap."
14
When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
15
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
16
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
17
The priests who bore the ark of the LORD's covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
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8.13.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 13, 2025
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Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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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.
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."
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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 opposite 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, 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.' 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 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.
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Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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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.
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."
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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 opposite 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, 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.' 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 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.
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8.12.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 12, 2025
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Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
1
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
2
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them
3
and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
4
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
5
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
10
See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
12
"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
13
If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
14
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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Deuteronomy 31:1-8
1
Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2
He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'
3
The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.
4
The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
5
The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
6
Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you."
7
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
8
The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don't be afraid. Don't be discouraged."
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Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
1
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
2
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them
3
and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
4
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
5
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
10
See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
12
"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
13
If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
14
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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Deuteronomy 31:1-8
1
Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2
He said to them, "I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'
3
The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.
4
The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
5
The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
6
Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you."
7
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
8
The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don't be afraid. Don't be discouraged."
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* World English Bible
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8.11.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 11, 2025
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Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin
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Gospel : Matthew 17:22-27
22
While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
23
and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."
They were exceedingly sorry.
24
When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?"
25
He said, "Yes."
When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
26
Peter said to him, "From strangers."
Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt.
27
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.† Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
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Deuteronomy 10:12-22
12
Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13
to keep the LORD's commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
14
Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
15
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
17
For the LORD your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons or take bribes.
18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20
You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
21
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
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Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin
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Gospel : Matthew 17:22-27
22
While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,
23
and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."
They were exceedingly sorry.
24
When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?"
25
He said, "Yes."
When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
26
Peter said to him, "From strangers."
Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt.
27
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.† Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
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Deuteronomy 10:12-22
12
Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13
to keep the LORD's commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
14
Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
15
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
17
For the LORD your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons or take bribes.
18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20
You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
21
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
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* World English Bible
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8.10.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 10, 2025
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Luke 12:32-48
32
"Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
33
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35
"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
36
Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
37
Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.
39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
41
Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
42
The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
43
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
44
Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
45
But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47
That servant who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
48
but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
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Wisdom 18:6-9 ☆
6
That night was known beforehand to our ancestors,
so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.d
7
The expectation of your people
was the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their foes.
8
For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,
you glorified us whom you had summoned.
9
For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice
and carried out with one mind the divine institution,
So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,
once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.
☆Wisdom Chapter 18:6-9
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/wisdom/18?6
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Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
2
For by this, the elders obtained approval.
8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9
By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10
For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11
By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
12
Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
18
to whom it was said, "Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,"
19
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
-----
* World English Bible
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Luke 12:32-48
32
"Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
33
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35
"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
36
Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
37
Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.
39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
41
Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
42
The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
43
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
44
Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
45
But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47
That servant who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
48
but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
-----
Wisdom 18:6-9 ☆
6
That night was known beforehand to our ancestors,
so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.d
7
The expectation of your people
was the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their foes.
8
For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,
you glorified us whom you had summoned.
9
For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice
and carried out with one mind the divine institution,
So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,
once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.
☆Wisdom Chapter 18:6-9
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/wisdom/18?6
-----
Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
2
For by this, the elders obtained approval.
8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
9
By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10
For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11
By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
12
Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
18
to whom it was said, "Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,"
19
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.09.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 9, 2025
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Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 17:14-20
14
When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying,
15
"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
16
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
17
Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."
18
Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
19
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
20
He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
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Deuteronomy 6:4-13
4
Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one.
5
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
7
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
9
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
10
It shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn't build,
11
and houses full of all good things which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
12
then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13
You shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
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* World English Bible
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Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 17:14-20
14
When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying,
15
"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
16
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
17
Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."
18
Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
19
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
20
He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
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Deuteronomy 6:4-13
4
Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one.
5
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
7
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
9
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
10
It shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn't build,
11
and houses full of all good things which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
12
then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13
You shall fear the LORD your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
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8.08.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 8, 2025
Have a good day!
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Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest
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Gospel : Matthew 16:24-28
24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
25
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will give to everyone according to his deeds.
28
Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
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Deuteronomy 4:32-40
32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
33
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34
Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35
It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.
36
Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for all time.
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* World English Bible
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Have a good day!
-----
Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest
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Gospel : Matthew 16:24-28
24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
25
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will give to everyone according to his deeds.
28
Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
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Deuteronomy 4:32-40
32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
33
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34
Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35
It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God. There is no one else besides him.
36
Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for all time.
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* World English Bible
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8.07.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 7, 2025
Have a good day!
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Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 16:13-23
13
Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
14
They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
15
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
16
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17
Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades§ will not prevail against it.
19
I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."
20
Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
21
From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
22
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you."
23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
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Numbers 20:1-13
1
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2
There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
4
Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."
6
Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD's glory appeared to them.
7
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8
"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."
9
Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
10
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?"
11
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
12
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
13
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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* World English Bible
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Have a good day!
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Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 16:13-23
13
Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
14
They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
15
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
16
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17
Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades§ will not prevail against it.
19
I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."
20
Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
21
From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
22
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you."
23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
-----
Numbers 20:1-13
1
The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2
There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
4
Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?
5
Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."
6
Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces. The LORD's glory appeared to them.
7
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8
"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."
9
Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
10
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?"
11
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
12
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
13
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
-----
* World English Bible
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8.06.2025
Today's Bible story *
August 6, 2025
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Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
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Gospel : Luke 9:28b-36
28
About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
29
As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.
30
Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
31
who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
32
Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
33
As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
34
While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.
35
A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"
36
When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
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Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
9
"I watched until thrones were placed,
and one who was Ancient of Days sat.
His clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool.
His throne was fiery flames,
and its wheels burning fire.
10
A fiery stream issued and came out from before him.
Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The judgment was set.
The books were opened.
13
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.
14
Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be destroyed.
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2 Peter 1:16-19
16
For we didn't follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17
For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
18
We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
-----
* World English Bible
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-----
Have a good day!
-----
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
-----
Gospel : Luke 9:28b-36
28
About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.
29
As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.
30
Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
31
who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
32
Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
33
As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.
34
While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.
35
A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"
36
When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
-----
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
9
"I watched until thrones were placed,
and one who was Ancient of Days sat.
His clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool.
His throne was fiery flames,
and its wheels burning fire.
10
A fiery stream issued and came out from before him.
Thousands of thousands ministered to him.
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The judgment was set.
The books were opened.
13
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.
14
Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be destroyed.
-----
2 Peter 1:16-19
16
For we didn't follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17
For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
18
We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
-----
* World English Bible
https://ebible.org/engwebp/
◇ Daily Mass Reading Podcast For August 6, 2025
https://bible.usccb.org/podcasts/audio/daily-mass-reading-podcast-august-6-2025
◇ Daily Readings August 6, 2025
https://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/080625.cfm
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