Download PDF 2 Tim 2:22b-26 Reading from the memorial of St. Irenaeus of Lyon My son: concentrate on uprightness, faith, love and peace, in union with all those who call on the Lord with a pure heart. Avoid these foolish and undisciplined speculations, understanding that they only give rise to quarrels; and a servant of […]
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Download PDF Mt 19:16-22 Reading for the memorial of Saint Emma of Gurk At that time someone came up to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you
Ps 119:33-37.40 Teach me, Yahweh,the way of your precepts,and I will observe them. Give me understandingand I will observe your Law,and keep it wholeheartedly. Guide me in the way of your commandments,for my delight is there. Bend my heart to your instructions,not to selfish gain. Avert my eyes from pointless images,by your word give me
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2 Kgs 19:9b-11,14-21,31-35a,36 Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this, “Do not let your God on whom you are relying deceive you with the promise: Jerusalem will not fall into the king of Assyria’s clutches. You have learnt by now what the kings of Assyria have done to all
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Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist Isa 49:1-6 Coasts and islands, listen to me, pay attention, distant peoples. Yahweh called me when I was in the womb, before my birth he had pronounced my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the shadow of his hand. He
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Download PDF 2 Cor 5:14-17 ‘For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died; his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life.
Download PDF Mt 6:24-34 ‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money. ‘That is why I am telling you not to worry about
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Download PDF Mt 6:19-23 ‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys them and thieves cannot break in and steal. For wherever your treasure is, there will
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Download PDF Mt 6:7-15 ‘In your prayers do not babble as the gentiles do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard. Do not be like them; your Father knows what you need before you ask him. So you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name
Mt 6:1-6,16-18 At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be careful not to parade your uprightness in public to attract attention; otherwise you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
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