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The True Kinship of Jesus

Download PDF Lk 8:19-21 His mother and his brothers came looking for him, but they could not get to him because of the crowd. He was told, ‘Your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to see you.’ But he said in answer, ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word […]

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Do good without delay

Download PDF Prov 3:27-34 Refuse no kindness to those who have a right to it, if it is in your power to perform it. Do not say to your neighbour, ‘Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow,’ if you can do it now. Do not plot harm against your neighbour who

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The Wise Virgins

Download PDF Mt 25:1-13 A reading for the memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil

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The Joy of the Resurrection

Download PDF 1 Cor 15:12-20 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot have been raised either, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching

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The Sorrowful Mother

Download PDF Memory of Our Lady of Sorrows Jn 19:25-27 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to

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The Cross: sign of salvation

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross  Download PDF Phil 2:6-11 Christ, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was

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Members of one body

Download PDF 1 Cor 12:12-14.27-31a For as with the human body which is a unity although it has many parts – all the parts of the body, though many, still making up one single body – so it is with Christ. We were baptized into one body in a single Spirit, Jews as well as

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The Sweet Name of Mary

Download PDF Isa 61:9-11 A reading for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary Their race will be famous throughout the nations and their offspring throughout the peoples. All who see them will admit that they are a race whom Yahweh has blessed. I exult for joy in Yahweh, my soul rejoices in

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God’s wrath and compassion

Download PDF Ex 32:7-11,13-14 Yahweh then said to Moses, ‘Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt. They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, “Israel, here is

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