Here is the link to the July 19 issue of the Message:http://www.themessageonline.org/messagepdf/Message 07-19-13.pdf...
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“The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ.” One of the final documents to be completed by the Second Vatican Counc...
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Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Genesis Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran.When he came upon a certain shrine, as the sun had already set,he stopped there for the night.Taking one of the stones at the shrine, he put it under his headand lay down to s...
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Isaiah Thus says the LORD:Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,all you who love her;exult, exult with her,all you who were mourning over her!Oh, that you may suck fullyof the milk of her comfort,that you may nurse with delightat her abundan...
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Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Genesis When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him,he called his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!”“Yes father!” he replied.Isaac then said, “As you can see, I am so oldthat I may now die at an...
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Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Genesis The span of Sarah’s life was one hundred and twenty-seven years.She died in Kiriatharba (that is, Hebron)in the land of Canaan,and Abraham performed the customary mourning rites for her.Then he left the side of his dead one and...
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Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Genesis God put Abraham to the test.He called to him, “Abraham!”“Here I am,” he replied.Then God said: “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love,and go to the land of Moriah.There you shall offer him...
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Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle Reading 1: Ephesians Brothers and sisters:You are no longer strangers and sojourners,but you are fellow citizens with the holy onesand members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone....
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Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1: Genesis As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “On your way!Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here,or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom.”When he hesitated, the men, by the LOR...
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           Pope Paul VI promulgated Dei Verbum on Nov. 18, 1965 following near unanimous approval of the final draft by the assembled bishops (2,344 to 6). The document later became the foundation upon which the section of the Catechism of the Catholic C...
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