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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time of Sunday August 11, 2024

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(Cf. Psalm 73.20, 19, 22, 23)
Look to your covenant, O Lord, and forget not the life of your poor ones for ever. Arise, O God, and defend your cause, and forget not the cries of those who seek you.
 

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

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First reading

1 Kings 19.4-8

Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than...

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Psalm

Psalm 34

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. R. O magnify the Lord with me, and let...

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Second reading

Ephesians 4.30 – 5.2

Brothers and sisters: Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with...

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Gospel

John 6.41-51

The people began to complain about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now...

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Bread for others

When future historians look back on the early 21st century, they may identify “journey” as a defining characteristic of our time. In recent decades, hordes of people have surged across countries and continents, fleeing from climate disasters, war, oppression or...

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