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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n29th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (I)\nOctober 19 – 25\, 2025\n\n\n\nSun\n19\nMon\n20\nTue\n21\nWed\n22\nThu\n23\nFri\n24\nSat\n25\n\n\nOffice\n29th Sunday\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt John Paul II\nOffice for Vocations\nWeekday\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nSir 41:14-22\nSir 42:1-14\nSir 42:15-25\nSir 43:1-18\nSir 43:19-33\nSir 51:1-12\nSir 51:13-30\n\n\nLauds\nZech 5:5-11\nZech 6:1-8\nZech 6:9-15\nZech 7:1-7\nZech 7:8-14\nZech 8:1-6\nZech 8:7-11\n\n\nMass\n147\n473\n474\n475\n476\n477\n478\n\n\n1st\nExod 17:8-13\nRom 4:20-25\nRom 5:12\, 15b\, 17-19\, 20b-21\nRom 6:12-18\nRom 6:19-23\nRom 7:18-25a\nRom 8:1-11\n\n\n2nd\n2 Tim 3:14-4:2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nLuke 18:1-8\nLuke 12:13-21\nLuke 12:35-38\nLuke 12:39-48\nLuke 12:49-53\nLuke 12:54-59\nLuke 13:1-9\n\n\nVespers\nJas 1:1-11\nJas 1:12-18\nJas 1:19-27\nJas 2:1-13\nJas 2:14-17\nJas 2:18-26\nJas 3:1-5a
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 29th Sunday
DESCRIPTION:THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER \nFrom a commentary by St Gregory of Nyssa \n◊◊◊ \nThe divine Word teaches us how to pray\, explaining to disciples worthy of \nhim\, and eagerly longing for knowledge of prayer\, what word to use to gain a \nhearing from God. \nThose who fail to unite themselves to God through prayer cut themselves \noff from God\, so the first thing we have to learn from the Word is that we need to \npray continually and not lose heart. Prayer brings us close to God\, and when we \nare close to God we are far from the Enemy. Prayer safeguards chastity\, controls \nanger\, and restrains arrogance. It is the seal of virginity\, the assurance of \nmarital fidelity\, the shield of travelers\, the protection of sleepers\, the \nencouragement of those who keep vigil\, the cause of the farmer’s good harvest \nand of the sailor’s safety. Therefore I think that even if we spent the whole of our \nlives in communion with God through thanksgiving and prayer\, we should still \nbe as far from adequately repaying our benefactor as we should have been had \nwe not even desired to repay him. \nTime has three divisions\, past\, present and future. In all three we \nexperience the Lord’s kindly dealings with us. If you consider the present\, you \nlive in him; if you consider the future\, your hope of obtaining what you look \nforward to is in him; if you consider the past\, you would not have existed had \nyou not been created by him. Your birth is his kindly gift to you\, and after birth \nhis kindness toward you continued\, since as the apostle says\, you live and move \nin him. On this same kindness depend all your hopes for the future. Only over \nthe present have you any control. Therefore\, even if you give thanks to God \nunceasingly throughout your life\, you will hardly meet the measure of your debt \nfor present blessings\, and as for those of the past and future\, you will never find \na way of repaying what you owe. \nAnd yet we\, who are so far from being capable of showing due gratitude\, \ndo not even give thanks to the best of our ability. We fail to set aside\, I do not say \nthe whole day\, but even the smallest portion of the day\, to be spent with God. \nWho restored to its original beauty that divine image in me that was \nblurred by sin? Who draws me back to the blessedness I knew before I was \ndriven out of paradise\, deprived of the tree of life\, and submerged in the abyss of \nworldliness? As scripture says\, There is no one who understands. If we realize \nthese things we would give thanks continually\, endlessly\, throughout the whole \nof our lives.
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