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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n11th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nJune 16 – 22\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n16\nMon\n17\nTue\n18\nWed\n19\nThu\n20\nFri\n21\nSat\n22\n\n\nOffice\n11th Sunday\nBl M-Joseph Cassant\nOffice for Vocations\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt Aloysius Gonzaga\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nJudg 11:1-11\nJudg 11:12-28\nJudg 11:29-40\nJudg 13:1-25\nJudg 14:1-20\nJudg 15:1-20\nJudg 16:1-22\n\n\nLauds\nAmos 5:7\, 10-15\nAmos 5:16-20\nAmos 5:21-27\nAmos 6:1-7\nAmos 6:8-14\nAmos 7:1-6\nAmos 7:7-9\n\n\nMass\n92\n365\n366\n367\n368\n369\n370\n\n\n1st\nEzek 17:22-24\n1 Kgs 21:1-16\n1 Kgs 21:17-29\n2 Kgs 2:1\, 6-14\nSir 48:1-14\n2 Kgs 11:1-4\, 9-18\, 20\n2 Chr 24:17-25\n\n\n2nd\n2 Cor 5:6-10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMark 4:26-34\nMatt 5:38-42\nMatt 5:43-48\nMatt 6:1-6\, 16-18\nMatt 6:7-15\nMatt 6:19-23\nMatt 6:24-34\n\n\nVespers\nPhil 4:10-14\nPhil 4:15-23\n1 Thess 1:1-10\n1 Thess 2:1-8\n1 Thess 2:9-12\n1 Thess 2:13-16\n1 Thess 2:17-3:5
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 11th Sunday
DESCRIPTION:THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN \nAND THE MUSTARD SEED \nFrom a commentary by St Peter Chrysologus1 \n◊◊◊ \nBrothers and sisters\, you have heard today how the kingdom of heaven\, \nfor all its vastness\, can be compared to a mustard seed… A mustard seed! Is that \nthe sum of believer’s hopes? Is that what the faithful are longing for – a mustard \nseed\, the blessed reward of virgins for their long years of self-restraint\, the \nglorious prize won by martyrs at the cost of their blood? Is this the mystery no \neye has seen\, no ear heard\, no human heart imagined; the mystery past telling \nthat the Apostle assures us God has prepared for all who love him? \nLet us not be too easily disappointed at our Lord’s words. If we remember \nthat God’s weakness is stronger than human strength\, and God’s foolishness \nwiser than human wisdom\, we shall find that this smallest seed of God’s \ncreation is greater than the whole wide world. It is up to us to sow this mustard \nseed in our minds and let it grow within us into a great tree of understanding \nreaching up to heaven and elevating all our faculties; then it will spread out \nbranches of knowledge… \nChrist is the kingdom of heaven. Sown like a mustard seed in the garden \nof the virgin’s womb\, he grew up into the tree of the cross whose branches \nstretch across the world. Crushed in the mortar of the passion\, its fruit has \nproduced seasoning enough for the flavoring and preservation of every living \ncreature with which it comes in contact. As long as a mustard seed remains \nintact\, its properties lie dormant; but when it is crushed they are exceedingly \nevident. So it was with Christ; he chose to have his body crushed\, because he \nwould not have his power concealed. \nWe too must crush this mustard seed in order to feel the force of this \nparable. Christ is king\, because he is the source of all authority. Christ is the \nkingdom\, because all glory of his kingdom is within him. Christ is a man\, \nbecause all humanity is restored in him. Christ is a mustard seed\, because the \ninfinitude of divine goodness is accommodated to the littleness of flesh and \nblood. \nDo we need further examples? Christ became all things in order to restore \nall of us in himself. The man Christ received the mustard seed which represents \nthe kingdom of God; as man he received it\, though as God he had always \npossessed it. He sowed it in his garden\, that is in his bride\, the Church. The \nChurch is a garden extending over the whole world\, tilled by the plough of the \ngospel\, fenced in by stakes of doctrine and discipline\, cleared of every harmful \nweed by the labor of the apostles\, fragrant and lovely with perennial flowers: \nvirgins’ lilies and martyrs’ roses set among the pleasant verdure of all who bear \nwitness to Christ and the tender plants of all who have faith in him. \nSuch then is the mustard seed which Christ sowed in his garden. When \nhe promised a kingdom to the patriarchs the seed took root in them; with the \nprophets it sprang up\, with the apostles it grew tall\, in the Church it became a \ngreat tree outing forth innumerable branches laden with gifts. And now you too \nmust take the wings of the psalmist’s dove\, gleaming gold in the rays of divine \nsunlight\, and fly to rest forever among these sturdy\, fruitful branches. No snares \nare set to trap you there; fly off\, then\, with confidence and dwell securely in its \nshelter. \n  \n1 Journey with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – 1999 – pg90.3 \n  \n 
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