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First Reading

Hosea 2:16, 17, 21-22 or Corinthians 4:6-10, 16-18

Psalm 45:11-12, 14-16

Gospel

John 15:4-10

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the…

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Divine Inspiration: Friday, Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal »

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First Reading

Joshua 24:1-13

Psalm 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22, 24

Gospel Matthew 19:3-12

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and…

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If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.—1 John 4

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Divine Inspiration: Twentieth Sunday In Ordinary Time »

scripturereflection:

First Reading Isaiah 56:1, 6-7

Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one…

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Divine Inspiration: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary »

scripturereflection:

First Reading Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10

Psalm 45:10-12, 16 ”The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed in gold.”

Second Reading 1 Corinthians 15:20-27

Gospel Luke 1:39-56

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she…

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I like to challenge the faithful to grow in holiness and become saints. When I give a confirmation homily to children, I ask them, “Are you called to be saints?” It is amazing that a number of them say no. The adults in attendance look stunned by the question. I then tell them we are all called to holiness, and we are all called to be saints. Vatican II teaches this; Christ tells us this in the Gospels.

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Bishop Samuel Aquila (Fargo) (via thefullnessofthefaith)

(Source: catholicworldreport.com, via thefullnessofthefaith)

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One cannot desire freedom from the cross when one is especially chosen for the cross. […] The more lofty the degree of loving union to which God destines the soul, so much more profound and persistent must be its purification.

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Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

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Luke 1:45, “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

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And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
he has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree;
he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.

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Luke 1:50-53 (via wreckedsolitaryhere)

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