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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time of Sunday August 20, 2023

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August 20, 2023

(Psalm 84 [83]:10-11)
Turn your eyes, O God, our shield; and look on the face of your anointed one; one day within your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

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First reading

First Reading (Isaiah 56:1, 6-7)

Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just;     for my salvation is about to come,     my justice, about to be revealed. The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,     ministering...

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Psalm

Responsorial Psalm  (Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8)

May God have pity on us and bless us;     may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth;     among all nations, your salvation. R.  May the nations be glad...

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Second reading

Second Reading  (Romans 11:13-15, 29-32)

Brothers and sisters: I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them. For if their rejection...

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Gospel

Gospel  (Matthew 15:21-28)

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord. At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity...

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Do we emulate Jesus?

One challenge that the gospel writers leave with us is that they generally don’t fill out their stories…we hear only the bare bones. Jesus’ friends try to dissuade him from attending to the foreigner. Jesus ignores them. But what was...

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