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FIRST READING 2 Kings 5:1–14 1 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. 2 Now the Arameans on one of their raids … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Isaiah 40:21–31 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Deuteronomy 18:15–20 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If I hear the … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Jonah 3:1–5, 10 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you. 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh … [Read more…]

I Corinthians 6:12-20 Do what you want How often do we struggle with the urge to simply do our own thing, without any regard to how the world may view our actions? Since this is more common than any of us would like to admit, we oftentimes act as if this is something new, that … [Read more…]

Now because of their age and relative inexperience, children and young people rarely get asked for advice by adults. In many ways this is sad, since our young ones tend to have amazing powers of observation, as well as the free time to ponder the strangeness of human nature. For those us who are parents, … [Read more…]

Leviticus 19:1–4, 9–18 1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them:  You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.  3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the … [Read more…]

Jeremiah 31:31-34 31The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.32It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a … [Read more…]

First Reading:               Isaiah 45:1–7 1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him — and the gates shall not be closed:  2 I will go before you and level the mountains,  I … [Read more…]

 First Reading                                    Isaiah 25:1–9 1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.  2 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city … [Read more…]