by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“‘The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD!'” … “Incline your ear to me and hear My Word.” … “‘Whoever receives this child in My Name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the one who sent Me.'”
Mass is celebrated for the Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, from Catholic TV in Boston.
On Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, celebrates a Mass of Thanksgiving for Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The Mass was broadcast on Catholic TV.
Catholic Sunday TV Mass for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 11, 2016, from Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin.
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“Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias … Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man … he liked to listen to him.” … “Lord, I love Your Commands” … “… my message … were not with persuasive words …but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your Faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the Power of God.”
MASS READINGS 8.29.16 – FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 – PSALM 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 – GOSPEL: Mark 6:17-29 – FIND A MASS: MassTimes.org – FIND A MASS: TheCatholicDirectory.com
‘… every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’” … “… an attentive ear is the joy of the wise” … “God, in Your Goodness, You have made a home for the poor” … “God, in Your Goodness, You have made a home for the poor.”
“The Lord comes to judge the earth.” … “You pay tithes …and have neglected the weightier things … judgment and mercy and fidelity. … Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!” … “May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father,who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement
and Good Hope through His Grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them
in every good deed and word.”
“… your Faith flourishes ever more… the love of every one of you for one another grows ever greater. … we … boast of you in the churches of God regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions ….” “Proclaim God’s marvelous Deeds to all the nations” … “‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees …. You traverse sea and land to make one convert, … [then] make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves” … ”
“‘Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.’ … ‘Strive to enter through the narrow gate’ … ‘… I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see My Glory.'”
MASS READINGS 8.21.16 – FIRST READING: Isaiah 66:18-21 – PSALM 117:1, 2 – SECOND READING: Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 – GOSPEL: Luke 13:22-30