This Week’s Gospel Message

Thursday, August 29th, 2019

This Week’s Gospel Message for Sunday, September 1st is from Luke 14:1,7-14.

“On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table . . . go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position . . . Then he said to the host who invited him, ‘When you hold a lunch or a dinner . . . invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’”

“True humility makes us more hospitable. Taking the spotlight off ourselves directs that light on the value of others.”

Source:  Pastoral Patterns, Autumn 2019

DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday 1 Thess 4:13-18; Luke 4:16-30

Tuesday 1 Thess 5:1-6, 9-11; Luke 4:31-37

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (Memorial) – “Gregory served as chief magistrate of Rome but resigned to become a monk. While still a deacon, he served as papal ambassador to Constantinople. Later he was elected abbot of his monastery and then pope. He was known as ‘the Great’ for his charity, his sense of justice, his protection of Jewish rights, and his political diplomacy.” Source: Living With Christ, September 2019      

Wednesday Col 1:1-8; Luke 4:38-44    

Thursday Col 1:9-14; Luke 5:1-11    

Friday Col 1:15-20; Luke 5:33-39

Saturday Col 1:21-23; Luke 6:1-5

“God wishes to be asked;

God wishes to be forced;

God wishes, in a certain manner,

to be overcome by our prayer.”

—Pope St. Gregory the Great

Event Signup Forms
View Signup Forms