by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“Jesus said … ‘They will seize and persecute you … hand you over … because of My Name. … I Myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that … your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. … they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of My Name, but not
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“Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them, ‘It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’ … every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,
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“… Zacchaeus … a chief tax collector and … a wealthy man … seeking to see who Jesus was … short in stature … climbed a sycamore tree … Jesus looked up and said, ‘Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.’ … Zacchaeus … said to the Lord, ‘Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I
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“… We must understand the Miracles of our Lord and Savior … to believe that they have been truly done and that their meaning still signifies something else …. We do not know the historical identity of the blind man, but we know whom he mystically denotes. The blind man is the human race. In our first parents it was
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“… a blind man was sitting by the roadside … He shouted, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!’ … Jesus asked him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ He replied, ‘Lord, please let me see.’ Jesus told him, ‘Have sight; your faith has saved you.’ He immediately received his sight and followed Him, giving glory
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“‘… When you have done all you have been commanded, say, “We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.”‘”
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“‘Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and
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“… A poor widow … came and put in two small coins …. [Jesus] said … ‘Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors …. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.’”
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Catholic televised Mass for Tuesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Nov. 6, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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“‘… when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
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