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SUMMARY:Skema - 21st Week
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n21st Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nAugust 24 – 30\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n24\nMon\n25\nTue\n26\nWed\n27\nThu\n28\nFri\n29\nSat\n30\n\n\nOffice\n21st Sunday\nWeekday\nOffice for Vocations\nSt Monica\nSt Augustine\nMartyrdom of St John the Baptist\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nEsther A:1-17\nEst 1:1-22\nEst 2:1-11\nEst 2:12-23\nEst 3:1-13\n2 Cor 4:7-5:8\nEst B:1-(3:15)\n\n\nLauds\nMic 1:10-16\nMic 2:1-7\nMic 2:8-13\nMic 3:1-4\nMic 3:5-8\nWis 3:1-9\nMic 3:9-12\n\n\nMass\n123\n425\n426\n427\n428\n634\n430\n\n\n1st\nIsa 66:18-21\n1 Thess 1:1-5\, 8b-10\n1 Thess 2:1-8\n1 Thess 2:9-13\n1 Thess 3:7-13\nJerm 1:17-19\n1 Thess 4:9-11\n\n\n2nd\nHeb 12:5-7\, 11-13\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 13:22-30\nMatt 23:13-22\nMatt 23:23-26\nMatt 23:27-32\nMatt 24:42-51\nMark 6:17-29\nMatt 25:14-30\n\n\nVespers\nCol 3:12-17\nCol 3:18-4:1\nCol 4:2-9\nCol 4:10-18\n1 Thess 1:1-10\nActs 13:16-26\n1 Thess 2:1-8
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 21st Sunday Ord
DESCRIPTION:THE PRICE OF HEAVEN \nFrom a commentary by St Anselm of Canterbury \n◊◊◊ \nGod cries out that the kingdom of heaven is for sale. The glorious bliss of \nthis kingdom surpasses the power of mortal eye to see\, mortal ear to hear\, \nmortal heart to conceive. If anyone asks the price that must be paid\, the answer \nis: The One who wishes to bestow a kingdom in heaven has no need of earthly \npayment. No one can give God anything he does not possess\, because everything \nbelongs to him. Yet he does not give such a precious gift gratis\, for he will not \ngive it to anyone who lacks love. After all\, people do not give away what they \nhold dear to those without appreciation. So since God has no need of your \npossessions but must not bestow such a precious gift on anyone who disdains to \nvalue it\, love is the one thing he asks for; without this he cannot give it. Give \nlove\, then\, and receive the kingdom: love and it is yours. \nTo reign in heaven simply means exercising a single power with God and \nall the holy angels and saints through being so united with them in love as to \nwant only what they want. Love God more than yourself\, then\, and already you \nwill begin to have what you desire to possess fully in heaven. Be at one with God \nand with other men and women – so long as they are not at variance with God – \nand already you will begin to reign with God and all the saints. The desires of \nGod and all the saints will be the same as yours in heaven\, if your desires now \nare the same as those of God and other people. So if you want to be a king in \nheaven\, love God and other people as you should and then you will deserve to \nbecome what you desire. \nBut you cannot have this perfect love unless you empty your heart of every \nother love. That is why those who fill their hearts with love of God and neighbor \ndesire nothing but the will of God or that of some fellow human being – \nprovided this is not contrary to God. That is why they devote themselves to \nprayer\, spiritual conversations\, and reflection\, for it is a joy to them to long for \nGod and to speak\, hear and think about him whom they dearly love. That is why \nthey rejoice with those who rejoice\, weep with those who weep\, show \ncompassion to those in distress\, and give to the needy\, since they love others as \nthemselves. Hence too their contempt for riches\, power\, pleasure\, honor\, and \npraise. Those who love these things frequently offend against God and their \nneighbor – for the whole law and the prophets depend on these two \ncommandments. So those who wish to possess the fullness of that love which is \nthe price of the kingdom of heaven should love contempt\, poverty\, toil and \nsubjection\, as do the saints.
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