Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 30, 2012


Numbers 11:25-29  /  James 5:1-6  /  Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48


Numbers 11:29

"Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets!  Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!"

James 5:2-3

Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes heve become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded.

Mark9:39

Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him.  There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me."

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 23, 2012

Wisdom 2:12,17-20  /  Jamesw 3:16-4:3  /  Mark 9:30-37


Wisdom 2:12

The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings.

 

James 3:17

 

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peacable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits.

 

Mark 9:37

 

"Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me."

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 16, 2012


Isaiah 50:5-9A  /  James 2:14-18  /  Mark 8:27-35


Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.

James 2:14

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Mark 8:34

He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." 

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 9, 2012


Isaiah 35:4-7A  /  James 2:1-5  /  Mark 7:31-37


Isaiah 35:5-6

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing.

James 2:5

Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

Mark 7:37

They were exceedingly astonished and they said,  "He has done all things well.  He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."



Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dt 4:1-2,6-8 / Jas 1:17-18,21B-22,27 / Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23

Deuteronomy 4:1

"Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you."

James 1:21

Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.

 

Mark7:14-15

 

He summoned the crowd again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.  Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person, but the things that come out from within are what defile."