Word: (From Gospel, Matthew 23:11-12) The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who raises himself up will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be raised up. Order: Be humble. Reality: I have trained myself …
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Daniel 9:4-6) "I pleaded with Yahweh my God and made this confession: 'O my Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and show faithful love towards those who love you and who obs…
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Genesis 15:5-6) Then taking him outside, he said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be,' he told him. Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was re…
Read moreWord: (From Gospel * Matthew 5:43-48) 'You have heard how it was said, You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be childr…
Read moreWord: (From Gospel * Matthew 5:23-26) So then, if you are bringing your offering to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar, go and be reconciled with…
Read moreWord: (Reading 1 * Jonah 3:10) God saw their efforts to renounce their evil ways. And God relented about the disaster which he had threatened to bring on them, and did not bring it. Order: Forgive people's thoughts. Reality: …
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Isaiah 55:10-11) For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and do not return before having watered the earth, fertilising it and making it germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to e…
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18) Yahweh spoke to Moses and said: 'Speak to the whole community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy. You will not steal, nor deal deceitfully …
Read moreWord: (From Gospel * Luke 4:1-4) Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert, for forty days being put to the test by the devil. During that time he ate nothing and at the end he…
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Isaiah 58:9-11) Then you will cry for help and Yahweh will answer; you will call and he will say, 'I am here.' If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words, if you deprive …
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * Isaiah 58: 6-7) Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes? Is it not sharing your food wi…
Read moreWord: (From Gospel * Luke 9:22-25) He said, 'The Son of man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.' Then,…
Read moreWord: (Reading 1 * Joel 2:12-18) 'But now -- declares Yahweh- come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.' Tear your hearts and not your clothes, and come back to Yahweh your God, for he is gracious…
Read moreWord: (From Reading 1 * First Peter 1:13-16) Your minds, then, must be sober and ready for action; put all your hope in the grace brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Do not allow yourselves to be shaped by the pas…
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