August 4, 2024 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today’s first reading just focuses on the evil power can have, with Jeroboam building the golden calves for worship. He is leading the ten tribes to the north into sin. In the gospel, Jesus feeds four thousand. Jesus says, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now…

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111124.cfm Paul tells Titus how he must live as God’s steward: “must be blameless, not arrogant,not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort…

Today’s first reading tells us if the wicked change their ways, they will live. Then if the righteous turn and do evil, they will surely die. Makes sense. I guess people were afraid to die back then. The gospel is much scarier to me because Jesus said that you will burn in the fires of…

In the first reading, Solomon presents the newly built temple to the Lord. Hoping it is a fine dwelling place for the Lord and that it remains for all the Jewish people. Too bad that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple when he took over and put the Jewish people into slavery once again. In the gospel,…

Today’s first reading: Paul goes to Ephasus and finds faithful that have been baptized by John and now need to know about Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit. They begin to speak in tongues. In the gospel, the apostles said they now believe. Jesus said that they will leave Him alone in His time of…

Today’s readings are focused on Jesus. The first reading is a warning from Malachi that someone is coming to save us, but we must turn to the Lord. Commentators say that there was apathy during the days of Malachi. In the second reading, Paul says that Christ came to expiate sin. He suffered and fought…