This Week’s Gospel Message forSunday, August 11th Luke 12:32-48
“‘Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.’”
“Since the lesson Jesus is teaching his disciples is to be prepared always and because one cannot know when the hour will come, it is perfectly appropriate to read and reflect on this passage at any time of the year. The hour could come for us, any of us, at any time. We would do well to be ready to be of service at any time, like the servants who will be rewarded.”
Source: Pastoral Patterns, Autumn 2019
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Deut 10:12-22; Matt 17:22-27
Tuesday Deut 31:1-8; Matt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
Wednesday Deut 34:1-12; Matt 18:15-20
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr (Memorial) – “Born in Russian Poland, Raimund Kolbe joined the Franciscans and took the name Maximilian Maria. After the Nazi conquest of Poland, he helped thousands of refugees, including Jews. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was send to Auschwitz. There, a prisoner escaped and, in retaliation, ten men were chosen at random to die. Maximilian offered to take the place of a young father and was executed.” Source: Living With Christ, August 2019
Thursday Rev 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Holy Day of Obligation) – “This solemnity celebrates the bodily taking up of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven at the end of her earthly life. This doctrine was dogmatically defined in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, but accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven survive in apocryphal narratives from the third and fourth centuries.” Source: Living With Christ, August 2019
Friday Josh 24:1-13; Matt 19:3-12
Saturday Josh 24:14-29; Matt 19:13-15