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June 4, 2012 (Monday)
Published on 2012-06-04 08:41:00
Be Blessed!Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 12:1-12.Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. «A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.Again he sent them another [..]
Taking pity on our neighbor as God has had pity on us
Published on 2011-03-28 19:33:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 18:21-35. Peter approached Jesus and asked him, «Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?» Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times bu
"Whoever humbles himself will be exalted"
Published on 2011-03-21 22:00:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 23:1-12. Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses.Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they t
Saint Joseph's vocation
Published on 2011-03-18 21:49:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 1:16.18-21.24. Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary wa
"At the preaching of Jonah they repented"
Published on 2011-03-15 20:13:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 11:29-32. While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, «This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just
"Then they will fast"
Published on 2011-03-10 19:56:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 9:14-15. The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, «Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?» Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as
The way to Christ's glory
Published on 2011-03-09 22:28:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 9:22-25. Jesus said to his disciples: «The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.» Then
Whose image is this?
Published on 2011-03-07 20:41:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 12:13-17. Some Pharisees and Herodians were sent to Jesus to ensnare him in his speech.They came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with
He shouted all the louder
Published on 2011-03-02 20:44:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:46-52. They came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging.On hearing that it w
Leaving all to follow him
Published on 2011-02-28 18:56:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:28-31. Peter began to say to him, "We have given up everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or fat
At that statement... he went away sad
Published on 2011-02-27 19:46:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:17-27. As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you call
Two Masters?
Published on 2011-02-26 23:45:00
Matthew 6: 24 - 34 24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 "Therefore
We tried to prevent him because he does not follow us
Published on 2011-02-22 19:26:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:38-40. John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us."Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him. There is no one
You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church
Published on 2011-02-21 18:47:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 16:13-19. When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still ot
This is my beloved Son
Published on 2011-02-18 17:41:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:2-13. After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no
Follow Me
Published on 2011-02-17 18:11:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 8:34-38.9:1. He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.For whoever wishes to save his life wil
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do
Published on 2011-02-16 20:10:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 8:27-33. Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"They said in reply, "John the Baptist, other
Open my eyes that I may consider the wonders of your Law
Published on 2011-02-15 20:28:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 8:22-26. When they arrived at Bethsaida, they brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes
The Law rooted in our hearts
Published on 2011-02-12 20:35:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5:17-37. Jesus said to his disciples: «Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth p
If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way
Published on 2011-02-11 21:21:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 8:1-10. In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, he summoned the disciples and said,My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for
O that today you would hear his voice
Published on 2011-02-10 23:53:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:31-37. Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and b
A pure heart create for me, O God
Published on 2011-02-08 19:20:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:14-23. He summoned the crowd again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are
"This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me"
Published on 2011-02-07 19:05:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:1-13. Now when the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For
"As many as touched the tassel on his cloak were healed"
Published on 2011-02-06 19:44:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:53-56. After making the crossing, they came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country a
Witnesses to the truth.
Published on 2011-02-03 18:47:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:14-29. King Herod heard about it, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him."Othe
"No money in their belts"
Published on 2011-02-02 20:20:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:7-13. He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick--no food, no
Go in Peace
Published on 2011-02-01 20:45:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 2:22-40. When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "
Arise!
Published on 2011-01-31 19:20:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 5:21-43. When Jesus had crossed again (in the boat) to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. S
Go home to your family ...
Published on 2011-01-30 19:02:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 5:1-20. They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.The man had been dwellin
"Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted"
Published on 2011-01-30 00:52:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5:1-12. When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.He began to teach them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kin
The grain that has fallen to the ground produces much fruit
Published on 2011-01-27 18:22:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 4:26-34. He said,"This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the landand would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not
The lamp on its lampstand
Published on 2011-01-26 18:41:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 4:21-25. He said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing
Successors of the apostles
Published on 2011-01-26 06:15:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 10:1-9. Jesus appointed seventy-two other disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are f
He drives out demons
Published on 2011-01-23 19:45:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:22-30. The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How
"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men."
Published on 2011-01-22 23:13:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 4:12-23. When he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what had been sai
Jesus gives himself wholly : he gives his own self to eat
Published on 2011-01-21 21:31:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:20-21. He came home. Again (the) crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, "He is out of his mind." Comme
The mystery of vocation
Published on 2011-01-20 20:07:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:13-19. Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him.He appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) that they might be with him and he might send
"All those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him"
Published on 2011-01-19 19:44:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:7-12. Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea. Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from J
"Grieved at their hardness of heart"
Published on 2011-01-18 21:05:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:1-6. Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. He said to
The lord of the Sabbath
Published on 2011-01-17 19:13:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 2:23-28. As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, At this the Pharisee
The Church, the Bride of Christ
Published on 2011-01-16 19:25:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 2:18-22. The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to Jesus and objected, «Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your di
"Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world"
Published on 2011-01-15 21:14:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1:29-34. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.He is the one of whom I said, 'A man is coming after me who ranks ahead o
"The man got up and followed him"
Published on 2011-01-14 21:12:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 2:13-17. Jesus went out along the sea. All the crowd came to him and he taught them. As he passed by, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs post. He said to him, "Follow me." And he
My son, your sins are forgiven....
Published on 2011-01-13 19:39:00
"We must speak to them with our hands before we speak to them with our lips."-- St. Peter ClaverMark 2: 1 - 12 1 And when he returned to Caper'na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And
"The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter"
Published on 2011-01-12 19:10:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 1:40-45. A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, «If you wish, you can make me clean.» Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. B
"He went off to a deserted place, where he prayed"
Published on 2011-01-11 18:46:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 1:29-39. On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, gr
"Have you come to destroy us?"
Published on 2011-01-10 19:32:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 1:21-28. Jesus came to Capernaum with his followers, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority an
"This is the time of fulfillment... Come after me"
Published on 2011-01-09 19:49:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 1:14-20. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel. As he p
"With him I am well pleased"
Published on 2011-01-08 19:52:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 3:13-17. Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.John tried to prevent him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?"Jesus said to him
"He must increase; I must decrease"
Published on 2011-01-07 16:58:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 3:22-30. Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea, where he spent some time with them baptizing. John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was an abundance of water the
"Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him"
Published on 2011-01-06 20:26:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 5:12-16. Now there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns where he was; and when he saw Jesus, he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said, "Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean."Jes
«The Spirit of the Lord is upon me»
Published on 2011-01-05 18:51:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 4:14-22. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region.He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he
"About the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them walking on the sea"
Published on 2011-01-04 18:09:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:45-52. Then he made his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.And when he had taken leave of them, he went off to the mountai
Jesus took the loaves... and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke them , and gave them to (his) disciples
Published on 2011-01-03 21:33:00
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:34-44. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. By now it was alr