October 26, 2024 Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090724.cfm In today’s first reading, Paul is still emphasizing our humility. God is the one who is powerful. We are His servants. Paul said do not have pride, but humility. In the gospel, the disciples are taking wheat from the field on the sabbath considered “working”. They are only taking enough to eat because they…

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062324.cfm Today’s first reading from Job shows the power of God to control the waters of the earth. The awesome power of God! In the second reading, Paul says that Jesus died for all of us and that we need to die to ourselves on earth. We need to live for Christ. In the gospel,…

Today there are three options for readings. The first is the Chrism mass where the priest blesses the oils used by the church throughout the year. There is the oil of the sick, the oil of the catechumens, and the holy chrism oil. The second is the day mass Thursday of Holy Week. And then…

OT means ordinary time. Today the first reading is Saul talking to Samuel after disobeying God and keeping spoils from the battle. In the Old Testament there is a recurring theme of God telling us what He wants, our defiance of those requests to even sinning against God, and then He punishes or takes away…

I always think of January 6th as Epiphany but this year it is January 7th. I will wait until tomorrow. Today’s readings focus on my word of the year, “proclaim”. In 1Jn, God is proclaiming about His Son, that he gave us eternal life through the Son. It also states that those who believe in…

Today’s first reading is the story of Jonah proclaiming (my word of the year) that God is going to punish Nineveh for the evils of that town. Then the king of Nineveh proclaims that everyone put on sackcloth and fast and maybe the Lord will not destroy them. Since they repented, God did not destroy…