August 9, 2024 Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s entrance gospel was the story of Jesus returning to Jerusalem and people with palm branches waving them as He went by on a donkey. They were shouting Hosanna! Then we hear the readings that first prophecy Jesus’ passion and then Paul recalls Jesus’ passion and then the gospel is the very long account of…

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090124.cfm In today’s first reading, Moses said to keep the commandments. He also said the others will look to Israel as great people because their God is close. In the second reading, James said to care for orphans and widows in their affliction. He said to keep oneself unstained by the world. In the gospel,…

Today’s first reading is different because it is a feast day for the church. Paul states that Jesus died and rose and then was seen by many people including himself. In the gospel, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The only way to heaven is through Him. He said He…

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072324.cfm In today’s first reading Micah focuses that our sin cannot rule our lives because of God’s mercy. He forgives us if we ask for His mercy. Repent and believe! In the gospel, Jesus is asked about His family. He then asks who is my mother? Brother? Sister? Whoever does the will of my Father;…

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091324.cfm Today’s first reading Paul described his calling to preach the gospel, good news about Jesus. He humbled himself to emphasize the power of God, not him. In the gospel, Jesus called people hypocrites and stressed by example of removing the wooden beam from your own eye before trying to remove the splinter from your…

Come Holy Spirit Come! Fill the hearts of the faithful! In the first reading, the Holy Spirit comes to the apostles in the upper room and they start speaking in tongues, in foreign languages they do not know. All hear and understand them. In the first option of the second reading, from 1Cor, we are…