August 10, 2025
Have a good day!
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Luke 12:32-48
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"Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
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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.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
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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.
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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.
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They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so.
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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.
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Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
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Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
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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?
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Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
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Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
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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,
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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.
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That servant who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
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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 ☆
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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
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The expectation of your people
was the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their foes.
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For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,
you glorified us whom you had summoned.
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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
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Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
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For by this, the elders obtained approval.
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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.
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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.
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For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
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If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
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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.
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By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
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to whom it was said, "Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,"
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concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
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* World English Bible
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