SHJIHM :: The Daily Word :: Daily Reading: Thursday, August 30, 2007 ~ Runboard
"There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing." -Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Placating terrorists, meeting with dictators, compassion for murderers... but no humanity for the unborn... incredible.
OOT
Daily Reading: Thursday, August 30, 2007 Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Psalm: Thursday 31
Reading I
1 Thes 3:7-13
6 But know that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you- 7 for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith; 8 for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God, 10 praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you; 12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you, 13 so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17
Ps 90:3-4, 12-13, 14 and 17 in RSV- 2nd Catholic Edition
God's Eternity and Human Frailty
R. (14) Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.
You turn man back to the dust
and say, "Turn back, O children of men!"
For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.
So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants.
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.
Satisfy us in the mornings with your mercy,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us,
yes, establish the work of our hands.
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy.
Gospel
Mt 24:42-51
Jesus said to his disciples:
42 "Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find him so doing. 47 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, 51 and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."
Today's reading was prepared using the Revised Standard Version- Second Catholic Edition.
Daily Reading: Thursday, August 30, 2007
