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Thursday, August 27, 2015
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St. Monica (Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
1 Thessalonians 3:7-13
7for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith;
8for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
9For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,
10praying earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you;
12and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you,
13so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 90:3-5, 12-14, 17
3Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, O children of men!”
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
5Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants!
14Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
17Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Gospel
Matthew 24:42-51
42Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
43But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.
44Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
46Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.
47Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.
48But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
49and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with the drunken,
50the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know,
51and will punish him, and put him with the hypocrites; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
First Reading
Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16
1Happy is the husband of a good wife; the number of his days will be doubled.
2A loyal wife rejoices her husband, and he will complete his years in peace.
3A good wife is a great blessing; she will be granted among the blessings of the man who fears the Lord.
4Whether rich or poor, his heart is glad, and at all times his face is cheerful.
13A wife’s charm delights her husband, and her skill puts fat on his bones.
14A silent wife is a gift of the Lord, and there is nothing so precious as a disciplined soul.
15A modest wife adds charm to charm, and no balance can weigh the value of a chaste soul.
16Like the sun rising in the heights of the Lord, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 131:1-3
1O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
2But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother’s breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul.
3O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
Gospel
Luke 7:11-17
11Soon afterward he went to a city called Naʹin, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him.
12As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her.
13And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
14And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”
15And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
16Fear seized them all; and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”
17And this report concerning him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.