AD SENSE

23rd Sunday: Liturgical Prayers

 1. Conscious Discipleship

2. Look Before You Leap

22nd Week: Aug 29-Sept 3

  Aug 29 Monday: (The Passion of St. John the Baptist): 

22nd Week, Saturday, Sept 3: St. Gregory the Great

 1 Cor 4:6-15 / Luke 6:1-5

Paul rebukes the Corinthians: We are fools; you are wise. 

22nd Week, Friday, Sept 2

 1 Cor  4: 1-5 / Luke 5:33-39

Paul talks about judgment: Don't pass judgment ahead of time. 

22nd Week, Thursday, Sept 1

 1 Cor 3:18-23 / Luke 5:1-11

Paul speaks about wisdom: The world's wisdom is nonsense to God. 
St. John Vianney was considered a dunce, a bit stupid or budhu as we say in India by his schoolteachers. The only reason he got through the seminary was that he was pushed through. When he arrived at his first parish, the pastor thought him too stupid to preach. But the bishop had more insight. He moved the young priest and made him pastor of a small village called Ars. 

22nd Week, Tuesday, Aug 30

 1 Cor 2:10-16 / Luke 4:31-37

Paul speaks about the Spirit: The Spirit helps us appraise everything. 

Aug 29: MARTYRDOM OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

 Aug 29: MARTYRDOM OF JOHN THE BAPTIST  

Jeremiah 1:17-19; MK 6:17-29

God instructs Jeremiah; Stand up to evil and oppose it.

22nd Sunday C: Liturgical Prayers

 Greetings

What do you have that you have not received?
If everything you have was received as a gift,
then why boast?
If anyone must boast,
let him boast of the Lord.
May the Lord, the giver of life, be with you.
R/ And also with you.

21st Week, Saturday, August 27: St. Monica

  21st Week, Friday, August 27: St. Monica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 / Matthew 23:23-26

Paul instructs the Thessalonians; God called us to holiness. 

21st Week, Thursday, August 25

 1 Cor 1:1-9 / Matthew 24:42-51

Paul encourages the Corinthians: God will keep you firm to the end.

22nd Sunday C: Humility

 

The first reading from the book of Sirach is a lesson on humility.

21st Week: Aug 22-27:

 21st Week: Aug 22-27:

Aug 22 Monday: (The Queenship of Blessed Virgin Mary): Lk 1:26-38:

21st Week, Tuesday, August 23

 2 Thess 2:1-3, 14-17 / Matthew 23:23-26

Don’t be misled by false prophets!

21st Sunday - Liturgical Prayers

 Greetings

The Lord has gathered us here, however different we may be from one another, to become one in him and to be a sample of the unity in variety of the whole Church. May the one Lord of all unite us and be always with you. R/ And also with you.

20th Week, Saturday, August 20

  20th Week, Saturday, August 20

Ezekiel 43:1-7 / Matthew 23:1-12

I saw God's glory; It filled the Temple once again.

20th Week, Friday, August 19

 20th Week, Friday, August 19

Ezekiel 37:1-4 / Matthew 22:34-40

Behold these dry bones! "I will breathe life back into them!"

20th Week, Tuesday, August 16

 Ezekiel 28:1-10 / Matthew 19:23-30

21 Sunday C: Enter through the Narrow Path

The first reading from the last part of the Book of Isaiah is a prophecy of consolation for the community of Israel that had been gathered again after the exile,

19th Week: Aug 8-13

 Aug 8 Monday: (St. Dominic, Priest):

20th Sunday C: Set the Earth on Fire

 Tony De Melo:  Where's the Fire? 

19th Week, Thursday, August 11: St. Clare

19th Week, Thursday, August 11 

Ezekiel 12:1-12 / Matthew 18:21 - 19:1

God speaks to Ezekiel: “These rebellious people look but don’t see.”

St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, August 10

 St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, August 10

2 Cor 9:6-10 / John 12:24-26

Paul talks about giving; God loves a cheerful giver. 

19th Sunday C - Liturgical Prayers

 1. Stand Ready in Faith

2. God Is with Us
Greeting (See Heb 3:14)
The Lord Jesus is here with us.
We are all partners with him
if we hold on to the trust
we had in the beginning.
May he always be with you. R/ And also with you.

19th Week, Monday, August 8

  19th Week, Monday, August 8

Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28 / Matthew 17:22-27

God appears to Ezekiel; The Lord appeared in a storm.

18th Week, Friday, Aug 9: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

18th Week, Friday, Aug 9: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7 / Matthew 16:24-25

God speaks through Nahum: The city was doomed.

18th Week, Thursday: St. John Vianney

 Jeremiah 31:31-34 / Matthew 16:13-23: St. John Vianney

God makes a promise: “I will make a new covenant

Transfiguration - Aug 6

The first reading from the Book of Daniel gives us a vision of the Son of Man being presented to the 'one of great age'.

18th Week: Aug 1-6

  August 1-6: Aug 1 Monday (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church):