Author: CM

3 September 2022 Saint Gregory the Great, Pope,Doctor

So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us. From 1 Thessalonians 2:2-8, NRSV At the beginning of this reading, we hear Paul referring to the opposition and rough treatment…
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2 September 2022

Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy. From 1 Corinthians 4: 1-5 (NRSV) The key word in today’s reading seems to be “stewards” – people to whom something special is entrusted. It does not belong…
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1 September 2022

So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. From 1 Corinthians 3: 18-23 (NRSV) Paul has had to…
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31 August 2022

Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labour of each. For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s…
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30 August 2022

For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed…
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29 August 2022

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and…
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28 August 2022 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself;    so you will find favour in the sight of the Lord.For great is the might of the Lord;    but by the humble he is glorified.Neither seek what is too difficult for you,    nor investigate what is beyond your power. From Ecclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31 NRSV Today we…
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27 August 2022

God is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’ From 1 Corinthians 1: 26-31 (NRSV) Most of us have met people who are boastful –…
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26 August 2022

God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. From 1 Corinthians 1: 17-25 (NRSV) St Paul has just been talking about the fact that preaching about the crucifixion is a massive problem to most people – to the Jewish people it was an obstacle, to the Greeks it…
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25 August 2022

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you— so that you are…
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