September 7, 2025
Have a good day!
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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Luke 14:25-33
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Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
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"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
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Whoever doesn't bear his own cross and come after me, can't be my disciple.
28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn't able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
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saying, 'This man began to build and wasn't able to finish.'
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Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
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So therefore, whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
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Wisdom 9:13-18b
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For who knows God's counsel,
or who can conceive what the Lord intends?
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For the deliberations of mortals are timid,
and uncertain our plans.
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For the corruptible body burdens the soul
and the earthly tent weighs down the mind with its many concerns.
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Scarcely can we guess the things on earth,
and only with difficulty grasp what is at hand;
but things in heaven, who can search them out?
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Or who can know your counsel, unless you give Wisdom
and send your holy spirit from on high?
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Thus were the paths of those on earth made straight,
and people learned what pleases you,
and were saved by Wisdom.
Wisdom 9:13--
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/wisdom/9?13
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Philemon 9-10, 12-17
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yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
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I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
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whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
14
But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
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For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while that you would have him forever,
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no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother--especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
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* World English Bible
https://ebible.org/engwebp/
◇ Daily Mass Reading Podcast For September 7, 2025
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◇ Daily Readings September 7, 2025
https://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/090725.cfm
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