by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… Jesus rebuked him and said, ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ Then the demon threw the man down in front of them
and came out of him without doing him any harm. They were all amazed and said to one another, ‘What is there about His Word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.’ And news of Him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.”
“The plight of our brothers and sisters who work hard but struggle to make ends meet calls us all to reflect in a special way this Labor Day. Today, we read in St. Luke’s Gospel how Jesus, upon returning home to Nazareth, read from the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue declaring, ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has Anointed Me to bring glad tidings to the poor.”1 Sadly, in our times too many people are excluded, marginalized, and politically and economically disenfranchised. The struggle of working people, of the poor, as Pope Francis reminds us, is not first a “social or political question. No! It is the Gospel, pure and simple.”2 There has been some notable progress in our economy in recent years, but it is also apparent that it is not where it should be for many, and we can all play a productive role in making sure it is a system that upholds the dignity of all people. …”
Catholic TV Mass for the Memorial of Saint Pope Gregory the Great, Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
“Jesus came to Nazareth … into the synagogue … He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. … ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.’ … they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them ….”
Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 2, 2018, from the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 2, 2018, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings]
Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 2, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings]
Catholic TV Mass for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 2, 2018, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [can take a moment to load] [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“‘… Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile. From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.'”