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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time of Sunday September 8, 2024

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(Psalm 118.137, 124)
You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love.
 

Texts of the day

Texts of the day

Sunday September 8, 2024 Other dates
First reading

Isaiah 35.4-7

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.” Then the eyes of the blind shall be...

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Psalm

Psalm 146

It is the Lord who keeps faith forever, executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free. R. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind and lifts up those who are...

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Second reading

James 2.1-5

My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favouritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a man with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in...

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Gospel

Mark 7.31-37

Returning from the region of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a man who was deaf and who had an impediment in his speech;...

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Be Opened

Oh, the power of a simple word! “Ephphatha!” Jesus says in today’s Gospel, and with that one word, the deaf man’s life changes forever. No longer would he be set apart, isolated from everyone around him. No more would he...

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