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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n23rd Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nSeptember 7 – 13\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n7\nMon\n8\nTue\n9\nWed\n10\nThu\n11\nFri\n12\nSat\n13\n\n\nOffice\n23rd Sunday\nNativity of the BVM\nSt Peter Claver\nBl Ogler\nOffice for the Dead\nWeekday\nSt John Chrysostom\n\n\nVigils\nEst 8:3-12\nGen 3:8-20\nEst E:1-16\nEst E:17-(8:17)\nEst 9:1-17\nEst 9:18-32\nEst 10:1-F:10\n\n\nLauds\nMic 6:9-16\nZech 8:1-8\nMic 7:1-6\nMic 7:7-13\nMic 7:14-20\nNahum 1:1-8\nNahum 1:9-2:1\n\n\nMass\n129\n636\n438\n439\n440\n441\n442\n\n\n1st\nWis 9:13-18b\nMicah 5:1-4a\nCol 2:6-15\nCol 3:1-11\nCol 3:12-17\n1 Tim 1:1-2\, 12-14\n1 Tim 1:15-17\n\n\n2nd\nPhlm 9-10\, 12-17\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 14:25-33\nMatt 1:18-23\nLuke 6:12-19\nLuke 6:20-26\nLuke 6:27-38\nLuke 6:39-42\nLuke 6:43-49\n\n\nVespers\n1 Thess 5:1-11\nRom 8:28-39\n1 Thess 5:12-28\n2 Thess 1:1-7\, 11-12\n2 Thess 2:1-10\n2 Thess 2:11-17\n1 Cor 1:18-25
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 23rd Sunday
DESCRIPTION:THE THREE RENUNCIATIONS \nBy John Cassian \n◊◊◊ \nThe tradition of the Fathers and the authority of holy scriptures both \naffirm that there are three renunciations which every one of us must strive to \npractice. To these let us turn our attention. \nFirst\, on the material level\, we have to despise all worldly wealth and \npossessions; secondly\, we must reject our former way of life with its vices and \nattachments\, both physical and spiritual; and thirdly\, we should withdraw our \nmind from all that is transitory and visible to contemplate solely what lies in the \nfuture and to desire what is unseen. \nWe read that the Lord commended Abraham to make all three \nrenunciations at once when he said to him: Leave your country and your \nkindred and your father’s house. First he said your country\, meaning worldly \nwealth and possessions; secondly your kindred\, that is our former way of living\, \nwith its habits and vices which have grown up with us and are as familiar to us as \nkith and kin; thirdly your father’s house\, in other words every secular memory \naroused by what you see. \nThis forgetfulness will be achieved when\, dead with Christ to the \nelemental spirits of this world\, we contemplate as the apostle says not the things \nthat are seen\, for what is seen is temporal but what is unseen is eternal. It will \nbe achieved when in our hearts we leave this temporal and visible house and \nturn the eyes of our mind toward that in which we shall live for ever; when\, \nthough living in the world\, we cease to follow the spirit of the world in order to \nfight for the Lord\, proclaiming by our holy way of life that\, as the apostle says\, \nour homeland is in heaven. \nIt avails little to undertake the first of these renunciations\, even with \nwholehearted devotion inspired by faith\, unless we carry out the second with the \nsame zeal and fervor. Then having accomplished this as well we shall be able to \ngo on to the third\, whereby we leave the house of our former father\, of him who \nfathered us as members of a fallen race\, children of wrath like everyone else\, \nand turn our inward gaze solely toward heavenly things. \nWe shall attain to the perfection of this third renunciation when our \nmind\, no longer dulled by contact with a pampered body\, has been cleansed by \nthe most searching refinement from every worldly sentiment and attitude\, and \nraised by constant meditation on divine things and spiritual contemplation to \nthe realm of the invisible. It will then lose all awareness of the frail body \nenclosing it or the place it occupies\, so absorbed will it be by things divine and \nspiritual.
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