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Hi Copeland,
Why don’t you put all your links in one place and call it “Today’s Mass Readings” ?
Verbum
Why don’t you put all your links in one place and call it “Today’s Mass Readings” ?
Verbum
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Verbum:Hi Copeland,
Why don’t you put all your links in one place and call it “Today’s Mass Readings” ?
Verbum
Here it is from the website of the USCCB:
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Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time**
Reading 1 - 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12
Responsorial Psalm - 123:1b-2ab, 2cdef
Gospel - Mk 12:18-27
usccb.org/nab/readings/060408.shtml
Here are the readings in context (Revised Standard Version):
2 Timothy 1:1-14:
*Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
**To Timothy, my beloved child: *
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. *
*
I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers. *As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lo’is and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you. Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. *
*Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago, and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. *
*Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
*
Psalm 123 - A Song of Ascents.
*To thee I lift up my eyes,
O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!
Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid
to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the LORD our God,
till he have mercy upon us.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD,
have mercy upon us,
for we have had more than enough of contempt.
Too long our soul has been sated
with the scorn of those who are at ease,
the contempt of the proud.
*Mark 12:18-27
And Sad’ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children; and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; and the seven left no children. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
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Jesus said to them, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong."
*The Scripture the Sad’ducees cited was Tobit 3:7-15, the story of Sarah, the daughter of Raguel whose 7 husbands had all been slain on their wedding nights by the evil demon Asmodeus. Because Asmodeus had slain her husbands before the marriages could be consummated, Sarah had no children.
I’m sure there’s enough to work on in those Scriptures.
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
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Copeland, Verbum & Other Brothers and Sisters:
Please see Bibliaclerus at the Vatican for commentaries on the Scriptures for the day…
Homilies on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy.
Homily I - St. John Chrysostom
*2Tm 1,6. “Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.”
You see how greatly dispirited and dejected he considers him to be. He almost says, “Think not that I despise thee, but be assured that I do not condemn thee, nor have I forgotten thee. Consider, at any rate, thy mother and thy grandmother. It is because I know that thou hast unfeigned faith that I put thee in remembrance.” For it requires much zeal to stir up the gift of God. As fire requires fuel, so grace requires our alacrity, that it may be ever fervent. “I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, that is in thee by the putting on of my hands,” that is, the grace of the Spirit, which thou hast received, for presiding over the Church, for the working of miracles, and for every service. For this grace it is in our power to kindle or to extinguish; wherefore, he elsewhere says, “Quench not the Spirit.” (1Th 5,19). For by sloth and carelessness it is quenched, and by watchfulness and diligence it is kept alive. For it is in thee indeed, but do thou render it more vehement, that is, fill it with confidence, with joy and delight. Stand manfully.
2Tm 1,7. “For God bath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
That is, we did not receive the Spirit, that we should shrink from exertion, but that we may speak with boldness. For to many He gives a spirit of fear, as we read in the wars of the Kings. “A spirit of fear fell upon them.” (Ex 15,16?) That is, he infused terror into them. But to thee He has given, on the contrary, a spirit of power, and of love toward Himself. This, then, is of grace, and yet not merely of grace, but when we have first performed our own parts. For the Spirit that makes us cry, “Abba, Father,” inspires us with love both towards Him, and towards our neighbor, that we may love one another. For love arises from power, and from not fearing. For nothing is so apt to dissolve love as fear, and a suspicion of treachery.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”: he calls a healthy state of the soul a sound mind, or it may mean sobriety of mind, or else a sobering of the mind, that we may be sober-minded, and that if any evil befall us, it may sober us, and cut off superfluities.
clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/index.htm
*This will require some clicking and searching to find - Unlike most of the Vatican Website, each section isn’t given it’s own URL. But, It will be worth the clicking - It’s the Homily of a Doctor of the Church and one of the greatest homilists of all time.
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
Please see Bibliaclerus at the Vatican for commentaries on the Scriptures for the day…
Homilies on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy.
Homily I - St. John Chrysostom
*2Tm 1,6. “Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.”
You see how greatly dispirited and dejected he considers him to be. He almost says, “Think not that I despise thee, but be assured that I do not condemn thee, nor have I forgotten thee. Consider, at any rate, thy mother and thy grandmother. It is because I know that thou hast unfeigned faith that I put thee in remembrance.” For it requires much zeal to stir up the gift of God. As fire requires fuel, so grace requires our alacrity, that it may be ever fervent. “I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, that is in thee by the putting on of my hands,” that is, the grace of the Spirit, which thou hast received, for presiding over the Church, for the working of miracles, and for every service. For this grace it is in our power to kindle or to extinguish; wherefore, he elsewhere says, “Quench not the Spirit.” (1Th 5,19). For by sloth and carelessness it is quenched, and by watchfulness and diligence it is kept alive. For it is in thee indeed, but do thou render it more vehement, that is, fill it with confidence, with joy and delight. Stand manfully.
2Tm 1,7. “For God bath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
That is, we did not receive the Spirit, that we should shrink from exertion, but that we may speak with boldness. For to many He gives a spirit of fear, as we read in the wars of the Kings. “A spirit of fear fell upon them.” (Ex 15,16?) That is, he infused terror into them. But to thee He has given, on the contrary, a spirit of power, and of love toward Himself. This, then, is of grace, and yet not merely of grace, but when we have first performed our own parts. For the Spirit that makes us cry, “Abba, Father,” inspires us with love both towards Him, and towards our neighbor, that we may love one another. For love arises from power, and from not fearing. For nothing is so apt to dissolve love as fear, and a suspicion of treachery.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”: he calls a healthy state of the soul a sound mind, or it may mean sobriety of mind, or else a sobering of the mind, that we may be sober-minded, and that if any evil befall us, it may sober us, and cut off superfluities.
clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/index.htm
*This will require some clicking and searching to find - Unlike most of the Vatican Website, each section isn’t given it’s own URL. But, It will be worth the clicking - It’s the Homily of a Doctor of the Church and one of the greatest homilists of all time.
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
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Hi Copeland,
Actually I have. Here is the link litteralchristianlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/Daily+Catholic+Scripture+Readings?t=anonWhy don’t you put all your links in one place and call it “Today’s Mass Readings” ?
I have been posting each day on here much like I do when I send daily emails to those who signed up on the email list.
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You will notice on my site I have done all the hard work, and I usually try to provide commentary that gets right to the point without a long drawn out explanation that sometimes commentators like the Fathers will sometimes do. Plus I have lots of Church Fathers resources that I use here at home that you will not find online. I am trying to provide something unique and user friendly.This will require some clicking and searching to find - Unlike most of the Vatican Website, each section isn’t given it’s own URL. But, It will be worth the clicking - It’s the Homily of a Doctor of the Church and one of the greatest homilists of all time.
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