Sunday: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53
“keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:2, NABRE
Monday
Jgs 2:11-19/Mt 19:16-22
“the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They served the Baals, and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the one who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them, and bowed down to them, and provoked the Lord.”
Judges 2:11-12, NABRE
Tuesday
Jgs 6:11-24a/Mt 19:23-30
“And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Matthew 19:29-30, NABRE
Wednesday
Jgs 9:6-15/Mt 20:1-16
“Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? [Or] am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’ Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Matthew 20:13-16, NABRE
Thursday
Jgs 11:29-39a/Mt 22:1-14
“ Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.”
Judges 11:29, NRSVCE
Friday
Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22/Mt 22:34-40
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.””
Matthew 22:36-40, NRSVCE
Saturday
Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17/Mt 23:1-12
“he women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed; he became the father of Jesse, the father of David.”
Ruth 4:17, NRSVCE
