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Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirty-third week – OT1 Readings:   Reading 1: As King Antiochus was traversing the inland provinces,he heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais,famous for its wealth in silver and gold,and that its temple was very rich,containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weaponsleft … Read more

 Wednesday – Thirty-third Week – OT1   Reading 1: It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God’s law. Most admirable and worthy of everlasting remembrance was the mother,who saw her seven sons perish in … Read more

Monday – Thirty-third Week – OT1   Reading 1: [From the descendants of Alexander’s officers]There sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes,son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome.He became king in the year one hundred and thirty seven of the kingdom of the Greeks. In those days there appeared in Israelmen who were breakers … Read more

Thirty-third Sunday – Year B – Ordinary Time Reading 1: (1 Kgs 17:10-16) In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath.As he arrived at the entrance of the city,a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her,“Please bring me a small cupful of water to drink.”She left to get it, and he … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Thirty-second week – OT1 Readings: Wis 7:22b-8:1; Lk 17:20-25.   1/ Reading I: RSV Wisdom 7:22 For in her there is a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, 23 beneficent, humane, … Read more

Wednesday – Twenty-eighth Week – OT1   Reading 1: You, O man, are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment.For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself,since you, the judge, do the very same things.We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is true.Do … Read more