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21st Sunday in Ordinary Time of Sunday August 25, 2024

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(Cf. Psalm 85.1-3)
Turn your ear, O Lord, and answer me; save the servant who trusts in you, my God. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long.
 

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

Sunday August 25, 2024 Other dates
First reading

Joshua 24.1-2a, 15-17, 18b

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said to all the people, “If you are unwilling to...

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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. The eyes of the Lord are on the...

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Second reading

Ephesians 4.32 – 5.1-2, 21-32

Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for...

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Gospel

John 6.53, 60-69

Jesus said to the people: “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” When many of his disciples heard this, they said: “This...

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Called to imitate Christ

In today’s Gospel, Jesus invites us to eat his flesh and drink his blood, to be one with him. We are challenged, as the disciples were, to understand this mystery and what it means to be a eucharistic people. For...

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