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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n32nd Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (I)\nNovember 12 – 18\, 2023\n\n\n\nSun\n12\nMon\n13\nTue\n14\nWed\n15\nThu\n16\nFri\n17\nSat\n18\n\n\nOffice\n32nd Sunday\nAll Benedictine Saints\nWeekday\nGethsemani Church\nSt Gertrude the Great\nWeekday\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nJud 5:1-24\nDan 7:1-3\, 9-22\, 27\nJud 6:1-21\nRev 21:9-22:5\nJud 7:1-18\nJud 7:19-32\nJud 8:1-23\n\n\nLauds\nZeph 1:1-6\nWisdom 5:1-5\, 14-16\nZeph 1:7-13\nEzek 37:21-28\nZeph 1:14-18\nZeph 2:1-7\nZeph 2:8-15\n\n\nMass\n154\n573\, 677\n492\n701.2\, 704.2\, 706.4\n494\n495\n496\n\n\n1st\nWis 6:12-16\nIsa 61:9-11\nWis 2:23-3:9\n2 Chron 5:6-10\, 13-6:2\nWis 7:22b-8:1\nWis 13:1-9\nWis 18:14-16; 19:6-9\n\n\n2nd\n1 Thess 4:13-18\n\n\nEph 2:19-22\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 25:1-13\nJohn 15:1-8\nLuke 17:7-10\nJohn 4:19-24\nLuke 17:20-25\nLuke 17:26-37\nLuke 18:1-8\n\n\nVespers\n2 Cor 10:1-11\nRev 7:9-17\n2 Cor 6:14-7:1\nHeb 3:1-6\n2 Cor 10:12-18\n2 Cor 11:1-6\n2 Cor 11:7-15
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 32nd Sunday ORD
DESCRIPTION:TO BE FREE AND FAITHFUL \nFrom a commentary attributed to St Anthony the Great1 \n◊◊◊ \nBlessed are the pure in heart\, for they shall see God\, since purity of heart leads to perfection. Two things are contained within the heart — goodness which is natural to it and evil which is unnatural. This latter gives rise to such passions of the soul as murmuring\, envy\, detraction\, and all the rest. Goodness\, on the other hand\, promotes knowledge of God and rids the soul of all these passions. If people honestly try to root out vice and avoid evil\, if they repent with tears and sighs\, devoting themselves humbly to a life of prayer\, fasting\, and watching\, the Lord in his goodness will come to their aid and free them from all sinful inclinations. \nMany who have lived a celibate monastic life for a long time have failed to learn what purity of heart is\, because instead of studying the teaching of the fathers\, they have followed their own wayward desires. So evil spirits and rebel marauders of the air have prevailed against them\, hurling invisible darts by day and night\, and thus preventing them from finding rest anywhere. Moreover they fill their hearts with pride\, vanity\, jealousy\, criticism\, raging anger\, strife\, and any number of other passions. \nSuch people are to be reckoned with the five foolish virgins because they have spent their time foolishly. They have not controlled their tongues nor cleansed their eyes and bodies from concupiscence\, neither have they purged their hearts of lust and other deplorable defilements. It was enough for them merely to wear a woolen garment signifying virginity. Consequently they lack the heavenly joy which would kindle their lamps\, and the Bridegroom does not open the door to them but repeats what he said to the foolish virgins: Truly I say to you\, I know you not. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy only reason for writing you this letter is my desire for your salvation. I want you to be free and faithful and pure brides of Christ\, the Bridegroom of all holy souls; as Saint Paul says: I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste bride to Christ. \nLet us awake\, then\, while we are still in this body\, and grieve over ourselves\, lamenting day and night from the bottom of our hearts\, so that we may escape the bitter torment\, the weeping\, wailing\, and remorse that will have no end. We must beware of entering through the wide gate and taking the easy road that leads to perdition\, for many go that way. Instead we must enter by the narrow gate and take the path of sorrow and affliction that leads to life. Few people enter this gate\, but those who do are real workers who will have the joy of receiving the reward of their labors and will inherit the kingdom. \nIf any are prepared to set out I do beg them not to delay and waste time\, for they may be like the foolish virgins and find no one willing to sell them oil. These virgins burst into tears and cried out: Lord\, open to us. But he answered: Truly I say to you\, I know you not. And this happened to them simply because of their laziness.\nI beg you by the grace of God to obey me as I also will obey you; and may we all obey the Lord who said by the tongue of the Prophet: Who longs for life and desires to see good days? Keep your tongue from evil talk and your lips from deceitful speech. Turn away from evil and do good; seek and strive after peace \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n1 Journey with the Fathers – Year A – New City Press – NY -1999 – pg 140-41. \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Alternate
DESCRIPTION:ITS LAMPS ARE LAMPS OF FIRE \nFrom a sermon by John of Ford[1] \n  \n◊◊◊ \n  \nThe simplicity of the just man is a lamp\, as holy Job tells us; a sense of honor is a lamp\, a very bright one; self respect is a lamp\, a very lovely one; every appearance and encounter with him is a lamp. A most brilliant lamp are all the words of truth that come forth from the mouth of Wisdom and dispel the darkness of error. They refute the night of sin with the light of justice. There is a still darker night\, the excuses wemake for our sins\, and this too they drive with a serene brightness. In fact\, all that a just man is shows itself outwardly like brightness\, and like a lamp\, he is all on fire to save us. When he is silent\, his silence does us good\, and away when he speaks\, it is as if he speaks the words of God\, a source of grace for those who hear him. And ‘when he renders service\,’ as the apostle says\, ‘it is as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies.’ \n  \nBecause the fire flaming in this lamp is so great\, a holy light appears outwardly\, dazzling our eyes. This is not the light of knowledge\, which we can obtain from someone by begging for it\, nor does it come from the witness of somebody else’s conscience\, namely\, of those who are accustomed to sell oil to the foolish virgins. ‘All the glory of the king’s daughter is from within.’ Outwardly she makes her lamp luminous\, but the glory is reserved for within. Inwardly\, the oil of gladness and a wealth of charity makes her burn to the glory of God\, and outwardly she shines to give grace to men. As scripture puts it: ‘Let your light so shine before men\, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven’. \n  \n[1] John of Ford.  Sermons on the Final Verses of  the Song of Songs – Vol. 7.  Trans.  Wendy Mary Beckett.  Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1984. Sermon 108.
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