{"id":8963,"date":"2022-12-06T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/?page_id=8963"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:42:00","slug":"dailygospel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/dailygospel\/","title":{"rendered":"DailyGospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png\" alt=\"Scripture\" class=\"wp-image-440\" style=\"width:219px;height:88px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png 761w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Daily Gospel Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prayerfulness is deeply a part of you: in body, mind and spirit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><font color=\"#0033CC\">Today&#8217;s Gospel Reading<\/font><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the Gospel readings for each day of the Year. 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Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. \u2018Heaven preserve you, Lord;\u2019 he said \u2018this must not happen to you.\u2019 But he turned and said to Peter, \u2018Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God\u2019s way but man\u2019s.\u2019\\nThen Jesus said to his disciples, \u2018If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life?\\n\u2018For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Monday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of Luke 4:16-30\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"'This text is being fulfilled today, even as you listen'\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:\\n\\nThe spirit of the Lord has been given to me,\\nfor he has anointed me.\\nHe has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,\\nto proclaim liberty to captives\\nand to the blind new sight,\\nto set the downtrodden free,\\nto proclaim the Lord\u2019s year of favour.\\n\\nHe then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, \u2018This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.\u2019 And he won the approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, \u2018This is Joseph\u2019s son, surely?\u2019\\nBut he replied, \u2018No doubt you will quote me the saying, \u201cPhysician, heal yourself\u201d and tell me, \u201cWe have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own countryside.\u201d\u2019\\nAnd he went on, \u2018I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.\\n\u2018There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah\u2019s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha\u2019s time there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman.\u2019\\nWhen they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Tuesday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 4:31-37\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"'I know who you are: the Holy One of God'\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because he spoke with authority.\\nIn the synagogue there was a man who was possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and it shouted at the top of its voice, \u2018Ha! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.\u2019 But Jesus said sharply, \u2018Be quiet! Come out of him!\u2019 And the devil, throwing the man down in front of everyone, went out of him without hurting him at all. Astonishment seized them and they were all saying to one another, \u2018What teaching! He gives orders to unclean spirits with authority and power and they come out.\u2019 And reports of him went all through the surrounding countryside.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Wednesday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 4:38-44\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"He would not allow them to speak because they knew he was the Christ\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon\u2019s house. Now Simon\u2019s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Leaning over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and began to wait on them.\\nAt sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them. Devils too came out of many people, howling, \u2018You are the Son of God.\u2019 But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ.\\nWhen daylight came he left the house and made his way to a lonely place. The crowds went to look for him, and when they had caught up with him they wanted to prevent him leaving them, but he answered, \u2018I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do.\u2019 And he continued his preaching in the synagogues of Judaea.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Thursday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 5:1-11\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"They left everything and followed him\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats \u2013 it was Simon\u2019s \u2013 and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.\\nWhen he had finished speaking he said to Simon, \u2018Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.\u2019 \u2018Master,\u2019 Simon replied, \u2018we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.\u2019 And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point.\\nWhen Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, \u2018Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.\u2019 For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon\u2019s partners. But Jesus said to Simon, \u2018Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch.\u2019 Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Friday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 5:33-39\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"When the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"The Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, \u2018John\u2019s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.\u2019 Jesus replied, \u2018Surely you cannot make the bridegroom\u2019s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.\u2019\\nHe also told them this parable, \u2018No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old.\\n\u2018And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost. No; new wine must be put into fresh skins. And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. \u201cThe old is good\u201d he says.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Saturday of Week 22 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:1-5\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"The Son of Man is master of the sabbath\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"One sabbath Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some of the Pharisees said, \u2018Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day?\u2019 Jesus answered them, \u2018So you have not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry \u2013 how he went into the house of God, took the loaves of offering and ate them and gave them to his followers, loaves which only the priests are allowed to eat?\u2019 And he said to them, \u2018The Son of Man is master of the sabbath.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 18:15-20\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"If your brother listens to you, you have won back your brother\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said to his disciples: \u2018If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a pagan or a tax collector.\\n\u2018I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.\\n\u2018I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Monday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of Luke 6:6-11\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Is it against the law on the sabbath to save life?\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"On the sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure a man on the sabbath, hoping to find something to use against him. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, \u2018Stand up! Come out into the middle.\u2019 And he came out and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, \u2018I put it to you: is it against the law on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it?\u2019 Then he looked round at them all and said to the man, \u2018Stretch out your hand.\u2019 He did so, and his hand was better. But they were furious, and began to discuss the best way of dealing with Jesus.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Tuesday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:12-19\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Jesus chooses his twelve apostles\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them \u2018apostles\u2019: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.\\nHe then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.\",\n                \"line-text\": \"____________________________________________\",\n\n\tDaya: \t\"Today, 8th September, also is the Feast of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary:\\nWe celebrate the birthday of Mary, Mother of Jesus\",\n\t\tTitle1a: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 1:18-23\",\n\t\tTitle2a: \"This is how Jesus Christ came to be born.\",\n\t\t\"main-texta\": \"This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, \u2018Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.\u2019 Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet:\\n\\nThe virgin will conceive and give birth to a son\\nand they will call him Emmanuel,\\n\\na name which means \u2018God-is-with-us.\u2019\" },\n\n\n      { Day: \t\"Wednesday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:20-26\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Happy are you who are poor, who are hungry, who weep\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Fixing his eyes on his disciples Jesus said:\\n\u2018How happy are you who are poor: yours is the kingdom of God.\\nHappy you who are hungry now: you shall be satisfied.\\nHappy you who weep now: you shall laugh.\\n\\nHappy are you when people hate you, drive you out, abuse you, denounce your name as criminal, on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice when that day comes and dance for joy, for then your reward will be great in heaven. This was the way their ancestors treated the prophets.\\n\\n\u2018But alas for you who are rich: you are having your consolation now.\\nAlas for you who have your fill now: you shall go hungry.\\nAlas for you who laugh now: you shall mourn and weep.\\n\\n\u2018Alas for you when the world speaks well of you! This was the way their ancestors treated the false prophets.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Thursday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:27-38\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Love your enemies\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said to his disciples: \u2018I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too; to the man who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from the man who robs you. Treat others as you would like them to treat you. If you love those who love you, what thanks can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks can you expect? For even sinners do that much. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. Instead, love your enemies and do good, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.\\n\u2018Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Friday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:39-42\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Can the blind lead the blind?\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus told a parable to the disciples: \u2018Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother\u2019s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, \u201cBrother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,\u201d when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother\u2019s eye.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Saturday of Week 23 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 6:43-49\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"Whoever hears me builds his house on a rock\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said to his disciples:\\n\u2018There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man\u2019s words flow out of what fills his heart.\\n\u2018Why do you call me, \u201cLord, Lord\u201d and not do what I say?\\n\u2018Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them \u2013 I will show you what he is like. He is like the man who when he built his house dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man who built his house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"24th Sunday of Ordinary Time\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 18:21-35\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"I do not tell you to forgive seven times, but seventy seven times.\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Peter went up to Jesus and said, \u2018Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?\u2019 Jesus answered, \u2018Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.\\n\u2018And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; but he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt. At this, the servant threw himself down at his master\u2019s feet. \u201cGive me time\u201d he said \u201cand I will pay the whole sum.\u201d And the servant\u2019s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. \u201cPay what you owe me\u201d he said. His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, \u201cGive me time and I will pay you.\u201d But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him hrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for him. \u201cYou wicked servant,\u201d he said \u201cI cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you?\u201d And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Monday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of Luke 7:1-10\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Give the word, and my servant will be healed\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"When Jesus had come to the end of all he wanted the people to hear, he went into Capernaum. A centurion there had a servant, a favourite of his, who was sick and near death. Having heard about Jesus he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus they pleaded earnestly with him. \u2018He deserves this of you\u2019 they said \u2018because he is friendly towards our people; in fact, he is the one who built the synagogue.\u2019 So Jesus went with them, and was not very far from the house when the centurion sent word to him by some friends: \u2018Sir,\u2019 he said \u2018do not put yourself to trouble; because I am not worthy to have you under my roof; and for this same reason I did not presume to come to you myself; but give the word and let my servant be cured. For I am under authority myself, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one man: Go, and he goes; to another: Come here, and he comes; to my servant: Do this, and he does it.\u2019 When Jesus heard these words he was astonished at him and, turning round, said to the crowd following him, \u2018I tell you, not even in Israel have I found faith like this.\u2019 And when the messengers got back to the house they found the servant in perfect health.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Tuesday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 7:11-17\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"The only son of his mother, and she a widow\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus went to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a great number of people. When he was near the gate of the town it happened that a dead man was being carried out for burial, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a considerable number of the townspeople were with her. When the Lord saw her he felt sorry for her. \u2018Do not cry\u2019 he said. Then he went up and put his hand on the bier and the bearers stood still, and he said, \u2018Young man, I tell you to get up.\u2019 And the dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Everyone was filled with awe and praised God saying, \u2018A great prophet has appeared among us; God has visited his people.\u2019 And this opinion of him spread throughout Judaea and all over the countryside.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Wednesday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 7:31-35\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"'We played the pipes, and you wouldn't dance'\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said to the people:\\n\u2018What description can I find for the men of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market-place:\\n\\n\u2018\u201cWe played the pipes for you,\\nand you wouldn\u2019t dance;\\nwe sang dirges,\\nand you wouldn\u2019t cry.\u201d\\n\\n\u2018For John the Baptist comes, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say, \u201cHe is possessed.\u201d The Son of Man comes, eating and drinking, and you say, \u201cLook, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.\u201d Yet Wisdom has been proved right by all her children.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Thursday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 7:36-50\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Her many sins have been forgiven, or she would not have shown such great love\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to a meal. When he arrived at the Pharisee\u2019s house and took his place at table, a woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him at his feet, weeping, and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment.\\nWhen the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, \u2018If this man were a prophet, he would know who this woman is that is touching him and what a bad name she has.\u2019 Then Jesus took him up and said, \u2018Simon, I have something to say to you.\u2019 \u2018Speak, Master\u2019 was the reply. \u2018There was once a creditor who had two men in his debt; one owed him five hundred denarii, the other fifty. They were unable to pay, so he pardoned them both. Which of them will love him more?\u2019 \u2018The one who was pardoned more, I suppose\u2019 answered Simon. Jesus said, \u2018You are right.\u2019\\nThen he turned to the woman. \u2018Simon,\u2019 he said \u2018you see this woman? I came into your house, and you poured no water over my feet, but she has poured out her tears over my feet and wiped them away with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but she has been covering my feet with kisses ever since I came in. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. For this reason I tell you that her sins, her many sins, must have been forgiven her, or she would not have shown such great love. It is the man who is forgiven little who shows little love.\u2019 Then he said to her, \u2018Your sins are forgiven.\u2019 Those who were with him at table began to say to themselves, \u2018Who is this man, that he even forgives sins?\u2019 But he said to the woman, \u2018Your faith has saved you; go in peace.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Friday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 8:1-3\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"The women who accompanied Jesus\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus made his way through towns and villages preaching, and proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve, as well as certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna the wife of Herod\u2019s steward Chuza, Susanna, and several others who provided for them out of their own resources.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Saturday of Week 24 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 8:4-15\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"The parable of the sower\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"With a large crowd gathering and people from every town finding their way to him, Jesus used this parable:\\n\u2018A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell on the edge of the path and was trampled on; and the birds of the air ate it up. Some seed fell on rock, and when it came up it withered away, having no moisture. Some seed fell amongst thorns and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell into rich soil and grew and produced its crop a hundredfold.\u2019 Saying this he cried, \u2018Listen, anyone who has ears to hear!\u2019\\nHis disciples asked him what this parable might mean, and he said, \u2018The mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to you; for the rest there are only parables, so that\\n\\nthey may see but not perceive,\\nlisten but not understand.\\n\\n\u2018This, then, is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God. Those on the edge of the path are people who have heard it, and then the devil comes and carries away the word from their hearts in case they should believe and be saved. Those on the rock are people who, when they first hear it, welcome the word with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of trial they give up. As for the part that fell into thorns, this is people who have heard, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life and do not reach maturity. As for the part in the rich soil, this is people with a noble and generous heart who have heard the word and take it to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"25th Sunday of Ordinary Time\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 16:13-20\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, \u2018Who do people say the Son of Man is?\u2019 And they said, \u2018Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u2019 \u2018But you,\u2019 he said \u2018who do you say I am?\u2019 Then Simon Peter spoke up, \u2018You are the Christ,\u2019 he said, \u2018the Son of the living God.\u2019 Jesus replied, \u2018Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.\u2019 Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Monday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of Matthew 23:13-22\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Alas for you, blind guides!\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said: \u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who shut up the kingdom of heaven in men\u2019s faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to.\\n\u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you have him you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.\\n\u2018Alas for you, blind guides! You who say, \u201cIf a man swears by the Temple, it has no force; but if a man swears by the gold of the Temple, he is bound.\u201d Fools and blind! For which is of greater worth, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? Or else, \u201cIf a man swears by the altar it has no force; but if a man swears by the offering that is on the altar, he is bound.\u201d You blind men! For which is of greater worth, the offering or the altar that makes the offering sacred? Therefore, when a man swears by the altar he is swearing by that and by everything on it. And when a man swears by the Temple he is swearing by that and by the One who dwells in it. And when a man swears by heaven he is swearing by the throne of God and by the One who is seated there.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Tuesday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 23:23-26\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"Clean the inside of the cup first, so that the outside may become clean\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said: \u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who pay your tithe of mint and dill and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law \u2013 justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, without neglecting the others. You blind guides! Straining out gnats and swallowing camels!\\n\u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who clean the outside of cup and dish and leave the inside full of extortion and intemperance. Blind Pharisee! Clean the inside of cup and dish first so that the outside may become clean as well.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Wednesday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 23:27-32\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"You are the sons of those who murdered the prophets\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said: \u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of dead men\u2019s bones and every kind of corruption. In the same way you appear to people from the outside like good honest men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.\\n\u2018Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who build the sepulchres of the prophets and decorate the tombs of holy men, saying, \u201cWe would never have joined in shedding the blood of the prophets, had we lived in our fathers\u2019 day.\u201d So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the sons of those who murdered the prophets! Very well then, finish off the work that your fathers began.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Thursday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 24:42-51\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"He is coming at an hour you do not expect\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus said to his disciples: \u2018Stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.\\n\u2018What sort of servant, then, is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to give them their food at the proper time? Happy that servant if his master\u2019s arrival finds him at this employment. I tell you solemnly, he will place him over everything he owns. But as for the dishonest servant who says to himself, \u201cMy master is taking his time,\u201d and sets about beating his fellow servants and eating and drinking with drunkards, his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Friday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 25:1-13\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"The wise and foolish virgins\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus told this parable to his disciples: \u2018The kingdom of heaven will be like this: Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones did take their lamps, but they brought no oil, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, \u201cThe bridegroom is here! Go out and meet him.\u201d At this, all those bridesmaids woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, \u201cGive us some of your oil: our lamps are going out.\u201d But they replied, \u201cThere may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves.\u201d They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other bridesmaids arrived later. \u201cLord, Lord,\u201d they said \u201copen the door for us.\u201d But he replied, \u201cI tell you solemnly, I do not know you.\u201d So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.\u2019\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Saturday of Week 25 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 25:14-30\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"You have been faithful in small things: come and join in your master\u2019s happiness\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus spoke this parable to his disciples: \u2018The kingdom of Heaven is like a man on his way abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one; each in proportion to his ability. Then he set out.\\n\u2018The man who had received the five talents promptly went and traded with them and made five more. The man who had received two made two more in the same way. But the man who had received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master\u2019s money.\\n\u2018Now a long time after, the master of those servants came back and went through his accounts with them. The man who had received the five talents came forward bringing five more. \u201cSir,\u201d he said \u201cyou entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have made.\u201d\\n\u2018His master said to him, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master\u2019s happiness.\u201d\\n\u2018Next the man with the two talents came forward. \u201cSir,\u201d he said \u201cyou entrusted me with two talents; here are two more that I have made.\u201d His master said to him, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master\u2019s happiness.\u201d\\n\u2018Last came forward the man who had the one talent. \u201cSir,\u201d said he \u201cI had heard you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered; so I was afraid, and I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here it is; it was yours, you have it back.\u201d But his master answered him, \u201cYou wicked and lazy servant! So you knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered? Well then, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have recovered my capital with interest. So now, take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the five talents. For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken away. As for this good-for-nothing servant, throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.\u201d\u2019\" },\n\n\n\n      \/\/ ... 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