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Blessed Sacrament Parish

Hollywood, CA since 1904

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Feb

17

2nd Sunday of Lent

By Norma Castilho on 17-02-2008 | Parish |  


For the Week of February 17 - 23, 2008

SCHOOL NEWS: Blessed Sacrament School is now accepting applications for the School Year 2008-2009. Scholarships of $1,000.00 are available for those who qualify. You can pick up your application in the school office from Monday though Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Phone 323 467-4177. Necessary document are W-2 forms for 2007 or a letter from your employer stating your salary. Due: No later than February 28, 2008.

MULTI-LINGUAL LENTEN RECONCILIATION SERVICE: Our Lenten Reconciliation Service will be
Monday, March 3 at 7:00pm. Confessions will be heard in English and Spanish. Please plan to attend this service with your family and friends as we prepare ourselves for Holy Week and our Easter Services.

SOCIAL SERVICE: Social Service will be assisting with payments for utility bills from Southern California Gas Company and Edison Electric Company, appointment necessary, documents needed:
*Picture Identification
*Original Current Bill
*Source of Income
For more information call 323 871-8042
Due to the generosity and support of our entire community, until further notice, Social Service will be unable to accept donations of furniture and/or computer equipment with the exception of flat screens. Thanks.

NEXT WEEK’S SUNDAY SALES COORDINATORS: CCD (coffee & donuts)

PRESIDENTS’ DAY HOLIDAY: The rectory office will be closed tomorrow in observance of Presidents’ Day Holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday as usual.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING: Our next Parish Council meeting will take place on Saturday, February 23, at 8:45am in the Parish Center. All ministries representatives are welcome to attend and participate.

MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday, February 17 - 9:00 Paula Cibrian, 2nd Intention Divino Justo Juez; 1:00 Marcelina Silva,
2nd Intention Maria Panameño Quintero
Monday, February 18 - 8:00 Norma Alojamiento; 12:05 Patricia Fix
Tuesday, February 19 - 8:00 Fr. John J. Brennan, S.J.; 12:05 Olmedo & Esther Naranjo
Wednesday, February 20 - 8:00 Jesuit Community; 12:05 Jesuit Community
Thursday, February 21 - 8:00 Jesuit Community; 12:05 Jesuit Community
Friday, February 22 - 8:00 Jesuit Community; 12:05 Angela Herrera
Saturday, February 23 - 8:00 Jaime Eduardo Herrera, 2nd Intention Melissa Cadorna

PRESIDERS FOR NEXT WEEK:
Sat/Sáb, February 23 - 6:00 pm Fr. Wayne Negrete
Sun/Dom, February 24 - 7:30 am Fr. Wayne Negrete; 9:00 am Fr. Jim Doogan; 11:00 am Fr. Bishop Bennett, S.J.; 1:00 pm Fr. Jim Doogan; 5:30 pm Fr. Mike Mandala

READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Daniel 9:4b-10; Luke 6:36-38
Tuesday: Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Matthew 23:1-12
Wednesday: Jeremiah 18:18-20; Matthew 20:17-28
Thursday: Jeremiah 17:5-10; Luke 16:19-31
Friday: 1 Peter 5:1-4; Matthew 16:13-19
Saturday: Micah 7:14-15,18-20; Luke 15:1-3,11-32
Sunday: Exodus 17:3-7; Ps 95; Romans 5:1-2,5-8; John 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Each Friday at 11:30am (English) in the Church. Fridays at 7:00pm (Spanish) in the Church.

FAST AND ABSTINENCE: Ash Wedsnesday, Fridays of Lent and Good Friday are days of abstinence from meat. Fasting days are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Important announcement: During Lent we try to maintain a very simple church environment, please do not bring flowers. Thank you!

IGNATIAN FAMILY TEACH-IN on Immigration, March 7-9, 2008, Loyola High School, Los Angeles:The Ignatian Solidarity Network invites you to attend a two-day learning experience exploring immigration through the lens of human dignity and personal experience in order to discuss andreflect on the immigrant experience. Registration Fee: $50.00, Payments due by March 3rd 2008. For more information visit www.ignatiansolidarity.net, email info@ignatiansolidarity.net or call 415-422-2408.

Wednesday Lenten Meditation Hour: Fr. Wayne Negrete, SJ, will be leading a meditation hour on Wednesday evenings during Lent, beginning on February 13. We will meet in the Prayer-Meditation Room located on second floor of the church on the Westside. Please arrive at the church by 7:15 p.m. Also, please wear comfortable clothing as we will be sitting on the floor. Sponsored by the Ignatian Spirituality Program.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF FR. JOHN J. BRENNAN, S.J. Born:December 14, 1914. Entered into Eternal Life: February 11, 2008

PLEASE HELP UPGRADE OUR COMPUTER LAB: Blessed Sacrament School is upgrading its computer lab and needs several flat screen monitors an computer desks. If you, or someone you know can make this in-kind donation, it would be greatly appreciated. We need 5 monitors and 10 desks. Please call the school at 323 467-4177 or stop by the main office, Monday through Friday form 8am to 3pm. Thank you.

A special Stations of the Cross, entitled “The Way of the Cross”, will be presented by The Blessed Sacrament Music Department on Friday, February 22 at 7:30pm in the Church.
This bilingual service will feature readings, prayer, and beautiful music presented by all of the Church choirs. The entire Spanish & English speaking communities are invited to attend! Don’t miss out on this wonderful, spiritual experience. Please call Rodger Guerrero, Director of Pastoral Music, at (323) 462-6311 for more information.

CATHOLIC APPEAL TOGETHER IN MISSION PLEDGE BILLINGS: The monthly pledge billings for the Together in Mission pledges have been mailed. It is very important that these pledges be paid so that our parish will reach and, hopefully, exceed our goal. Once the pledge payments have exceeded our goal, we receive all of the additional funds for use in our parish ministries.

TOGETHER IN MISSION
**PARISH GOAL: 35,622.23
AMOUNT PLEDGED: 9,276.00
**AMOUNT PAID: 3,760.00
REMAINING BALANCE: 31,862.23

Did You Know? Who Are the Abusers
Estimates are that approximately 60 percent of abusers are men, 15 to 20 percent are women, and 20 to 40 percent are men and women acting together. So, while men are indeed the majority of sexual abusers, it is dangerous to underestimate the risk that female sexual abusers also pose to children. Among educators, 57.2 percent of abusers are male and 42.4 percent of abusers are female. To learn more about creating safe environments in the school and home, please contact please contact the Office of Safeguard the Children at 213 637 7227. For particular help you may call: Mrs. Gloria Galarza, Coordinator Protecting our Children Program, phone: (323) 462-3646, or Sr. Sheila McNiff, Director of Assistance Ministry at (213) 637-7650.

FINANCE CORNER: Our income last week was
Regular Collection $ 7,797.00
Other income/donations $ 3,323.00
Total weekly income $ 11,120.00
The average expenses for the parish, including payment of the debt, are $12,800.00 weekly. Thank you for your continued support.

NOTICIAS DE LA ESCUELA: La Escuela de Santísimo Sacramento ya está aceptando aplicaciones para el año 2008-2009. Hay Becas de $1,000.00 disponibles para los que califiquen. Pueden pasar por una aplicación a la oficina de la Escuela de Lunes a Viernes de 8:00 a.m. a 3:00 p.m. Teléfono (323) 467-4177. Se necesita presentar los siguientes documentos : Formulario W-2 del 2007 ó una carta de su empleador constatando su salario. Entregar antes de Febrero 28, 2008 a la oficina de la Escuela directamente.

SERVICIO MULTI-LINGUE DEL SACRAMENTO DE RECONCILIACION DE CUARESMA: Nuestro Servicio de Reconciliación esta Cuaresma se celebrará el Lunes, 3 de Marzo a las 7:00pm.Las Confesiones serán en Inglés y Español. Los esperamos a todos ustedes y sus familias en esta nuestra preparación para los servicios de Semana Santa y Pascua Florida.

CONCEJO PARROQUIAL: La próxima reunión será el Sábado 23 de Febrero a las 8:45am en el Centro Pastoral. Todos los representantes de ministerios están invitados a atender y participar.

COORDINADORES DE LA VENTA DEL PROXIMO DOMINGO: CCD (café & donuts)

SERVICIOS SOCIALES: La oficina de Servicios Sociales estará dando asistencia a la comunidad con las facturas de la Compañía de Gas y La Compañía Edison de Electricidad, llámenos para hacer una cita, los documentos que necesita son:
*Identificación con foto
*Comprobante de ingresos
*Factura Original de los servicios
Para mas información llamar al 323 871-8042
Debido a la generosidad de nuestra comunidad deseamos comunicarles que hasta nuevo aviso Servicios Sociales no podrá aceptar donaciones de muebles y/o equipo de computadoras con excepción de pantallas compactas. Gracias.

VIACRUCIS EN LA IGLESIA: Viernes de Cuaresma a las 11:30am (Inglés) en la Iglesia. Viernes de Cuaresma a las 7:00pm (Español) en la Iglesia - antes de la Misa de las 7:30pm.

AYUNO & ABSTINENCIA: Miércoles de Ceniza, los Viernes de Cuaresma y el Viernes Santo son días de abstinencia. Los días de abstinencia no se come carne. Los días de ayuno son: Miércoles de Ceniza y Viernes Santo.

AVISO IMPORTANTE: Durante la Cuaresma tratemos de mantener la decoración de la Iglesia de una manera bien simple, por favor no traigan flores. Gracias!

FERIADO DE LOS PRESIDENTES La oficina de la rectoría estará cerrada mañana Lunes debido al Feriado de los Presidentes. Abriremos el Martes en nuestro horario de costumbre.

CAMPAÑA CATOLICA ANUAL 20 RECORDATORIOS DE PAGO DE UNIDOS EN MISION: Los recordatorios mensuales de pago de las promesas hechas a Unidos en Misión ya han sido enviados por correo. Es muy importante que estas contribuciones prometidas sean pagadas para que nuestra parroquia pueda alcanzar y ojalá sobrepasar nuestra meta. Si al pagar nuestras promesas excedemos nuestra meta, todos los fondos que excedan dicha meta seran devueltos para ser usados en los ministerios de la parroquia.

UNIDOS EN MISION
**META PARROQUIAL: 35,622.23
TOTAL PROMETIDO: 9,276.00
**TOTAL PAGADO: 3,760.00
SALDO: 31,862.23
A la de fecha de February 3, 2008

POR FAVOR AYUDENOS A RENOVAR NUESTRAS COMPUTADORAS: La Escuela del Santísimo Sacramento esta renovando sus computadoras y necesitamos monitores con pantalla plana y escritorios para computadoras. Si usted, o alguien que usted conoce puede hacer esta donación, se lo agradeceremos mucho. Necesitamos 5 monitores y 10 escritorios. Favor llamar a la Escuela, al 323 467-4177 o visítenos en nuestra oficina de Lunes a Viernes de 8am a 3pm. Gracias

Un Vía Crucis especial titulado “El Camino de la Cruz”, será presentado por el Depto. de Música de la Parroquia del Santísimo Sacramento el Viernes, 22 de Febrero a las 7:30pm en la Iglesia. Este servicio bilingüe consistirá de lecturas, oraciones y bella música con la participación de todos los Coros de la Parroquia. Toda la comunidad Hispana y Anglo Sajona está invitada a acompañarnos. No se pierdan esta maravillosa experiencia espiritual. Favor llamar a Rodger Guerrero, Director Pastoral de Música, al telf: (323) 462-6311 para mayores detalles

No habrá Misa de 7:30pm. el Viernes 22 de Febrero, pero tendremos el Via Crucis especial titulado “El Camino de la Cruz”

LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Lunes: Daniel 9:4b-10; Lc 6:36-38
Martes: Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Matthew 23:1-12
Miércoles: Jeremiah 18:18-20; Matthew 20:17-28
Jueves: Jeremiah 17:5-10; Lc 16:19-31
Viernes: 1 Peter 5:1-4; Matthew 16:13-19
Sábado: Micah 7:14-15,18-20; Lc 15:1-3, 11-32
Domingo: Exodus 17:3-7; Sal 95(94); Romans 5:1-2,5-8; John 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

Sabe Usted? Quiénes Son Los Abusadores
Se estima que el 60% de los abusadores son hombres, que del 15 al 20 % son mujeres, y que del 20 al 40 % son hombres y mujeres actuando juntos. Así mientras los hombres son la mayoría de los abusadores sexuales, sería peligroso rebajar el riesgo que suponen para los niños las abusadoras sexuales. Entre educadores, el 57.2% son hombres, mientras que el 42.4% son mujeres. Para saber más cómo crear un ambiente seguro en la escuela y en casa, hacer el favor de ponerse en contacto con la Oficina Protegiendo a Los Ninos al 213 637 7227. Para obtener ayuda usted puede llamar: Sra. Gloria Galarza, Coordinadora del Programa telf: (323) 462-3646, ó Hna Sheila McNiff, Directora de la Oficina del Ministerio de Ayuda, al 213-637-7650.

EL VIAJE DE LA TRANSFIGURACIÓN: “Solíamos ser tan buenos amigos. ¿Por qué te has alejado tanto?” un hombre le preguntó a otro. “Quizás”, le respondió el otro “tú te has alejado al quedarte quieto”. Este diálogo bien podría haberse dado entre Pedro y Jesús si a Pedro se le hubiera permitido armar tiendas para quedarse en el monte de la Transfiguración. Casi sucumbió a la tentación de quedarse en un lugar de maravilla y luz. Pero Jesús sabía la difícil verdad: estamos en un viaje continuo cuando transitamos los caminos de la voluntad de Dios. No es bueno que nos quedemos en un lugar en nuestro viaje de fe. Es igualmente malsano estancarnos en los momentos de alegría y milagros para evitar las dificultades de la vida que ensimismarnos en nuestros sufrimientos y tentaciones para evadir ser buenos compañeros de nuestras hermanas y hermanos que también están sufriendo; ¡o celebrar! La Iglesia peregrina debe hacer una cosa en su viaje de Cuaresma: caminar continuamente con Cristo como su Cuerpo nacido del agua y del Espíritu, buscando la voluntad de Dios, ayudando a que se onozca en la tierra el Reino de Dios, siendo guiada al final de nuestro viaje, transfigurada para siempre en la compañía del cielo. (c) Copyright, J. S. Paluch Co.

RINCON FINANCIERO: Nuestro ingreso de la semana pasada fue
Colecta regular $ 7,797.00
Otros Ingresos / donaciones $ 3,323.00
Total de ingresos $ 11,120.00
El promedio de gastos de la parroquia, incluyendo el pago de la deuda, es de $12,800.00 semanales. Gracias por su continuo apoyo.

HACIENDO MÁS: Por eso, añadamos algo, en estos días a la tarea habitual de nuestro servicio, como oraciones particulares o abstinencia de comida y bebida, de modo que cada uno, con gozo del Espíritu Santo, ofrezca voluntariamente a Dios algo sobre la medida establecida, esto es, que prive a su cuerpo de algo de alimento, de bebida, de sueño, de conversación y de bromas, y espere la Pascua con la alegría del deseo espiritual. –La Regla de San Benito, 49

Daniel 9:4
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4And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
Luke 6:36-38
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36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.
38Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
Isaiah 1:10,16-20
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10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Matthew 23:1-12
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1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jeremiah 18:18-20
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18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.
Matthew 20:17-28
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17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them:
18Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death.
19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again.
20Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.
21Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
22And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.
23He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.
24And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them.
26It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:
27And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.
28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
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5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
Luke 16:19-31
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19There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.
20And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
21Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.
22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.
23And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom:
24And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.
25And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazareth evil things, but now he is comforted; and thou art tormented.
26And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.
27And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house, for I have five brethren,
28That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
29And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.
31And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.
1 Peter 5:1-4
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1The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:
2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s sake, but voluntarily:
3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
4And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.
Matthew 16:13-19
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13And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?
14But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
16Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
17And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
18And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
Micah 7:14-15,18-20
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14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad according to the days of old.
15According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt I will shew him wonders.
18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.
19He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.
20Thou wilt perform the truth of Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Luke 15:1-3,11-32
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1Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.
2And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
3And he spoke to them this parable, saying:
11And he said: A certain man had two sons:
12And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.
13And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
14And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
15And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.
17And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father’s house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?
18I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:
19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and running to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
21And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not now worthy to be called thy son.
22And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:
24Because this my son was dead, and is come to life again: was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
25Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:
26And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27And he said to him: Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe.
28And he was angry, and would not go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him.
29And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandment, and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends:
30But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me, and all I have is thine.
32But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.
Exodus 17:3-7
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3So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
7And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
Romans 5:1-2,5-8
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1Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.
6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
8But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,
John 4:5-42
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5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
25The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
Daniel 9:4
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4And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
Isaiah 1:10,16-20
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10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Matthew 23:1-12
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1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jeremiah 18:18-20
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18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
20Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.
Matthew 20:17-28
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17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them:
18Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death.
19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again.
20Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.
21Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
22And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.
23He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.
24And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them.
26It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:
27And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.
28Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
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5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
1 Peter 5:1-4
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1The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:
2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s sake, but voluntarily:
3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
4And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.
Matthew 16:13-19
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13And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?
14But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
16Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
17And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
18And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
Micah 7:14-15,18-20
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14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad according to the days of old.
15According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt I will shew him wonders.
18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.
19He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.
20Thou wilt perform the truth of Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Exodus 17:3-7
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3So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?
4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
5And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.
6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:
7And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?
Romans 5:1-2,5-8
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1Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2By whom also we have access through faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.
6For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?
7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.
8But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time,
John 4:5-42
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5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.
8For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.
9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:
14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.
19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.
22You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.
24God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.
25The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.
27And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?
28The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
29Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?
30They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.
31In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.
33The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
39Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
40So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
41And many more believed in him because of his own word.
42And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

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