From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 12:3-11 12:3 The ancient inhabitants of your holy land 12:4 you hated for their loathsome practices, their acts of sorcery, and unholy rites. 12:5 Those ruthless murderers of children, those eaters of entrails at feasts of human flesh and of blood, those initiates … [Read more…]
5 Don’t rely on money to make you independent. 2 Don’t think you have to have everything you want, and then spend your energy trying to get it. 3 Don’t think that no one can exercise authority over you; if you do, the Lord is certain to punish you. 4 Don’t think that you can sin and get away with it; … [Read more…]
Monday of week 20 in Ordinary Time – August 21 / 2017 First reading Judges 2:11-19 The sons of Israel did what displeases the Lord, and served the Baals. They deserted the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from the gods … [Read more…]