Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 26, 2012


Joshua 24:1-2A,15-17,18B / Eph 5:2A,25-32 / John 6:60-69


Joshua 24:15

"If it does not please you to serve the LORD, decide today whom you will serve."

Ephesians 5:29

For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail.

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 19, 2012


Proverbs 9:1-6  /  Ephesians 5:15-20  /  John 6:51-58


Proverbs 9:1-2

Wisdom has built her house, she haws set up her seven columns; she has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table.

Ephesians: 5:17

Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

John 6:51

Jesus said to the crowds: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 12, 2012


1 Kings 19:4-8  /  Ephesians 4:30-5:2  /  John 6:41-51

1 Kings 19:6

Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water.

Ephesians 4:31

All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice.

John 6:43-44 

Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves.  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day."

 

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 5, 2012


Exodus 16:2-4,12-15 / Ephesians 4:17,20-24 / John 6:24-35

Exodus 16:4

Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will now rain down bread from heaven for you.  Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion."

Ephesians 4:17

I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.