by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
… He sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
‘If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.’ …”
#Catholic #TV #Mass Readings and Homily for Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Feb. 20, 2017, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
… Jesus said to him,
“‘… Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
… Jesus … rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,
‘Mute and deaf spirit, I command you:
come out of him and never enter him again!’
… He said to them, ‘This kind can only come out through prayer.'”
“‘… You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father …. be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.””
“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth,
… He regretted that he had made man on the earth,
and His Heart was grieved.
So the LORD said:
‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created,
and not only the men,
but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air,
for I am sorry that I made them.”
But #Noah found favor with the LORD.
… the LORD said to Noah:
‘Go into the ark, you and all your household,
for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. …”
“When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth,
… He regretted that he had made man on the earth,
and His Heart was grieved.
So the LORD said:
‘I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created,
and not only the men,
but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air,
for I am sorry that I made them.”
But Noah found favor with the LORD.
… the LORD said to Noah:
‘Go into the ark, you and all your household,
for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just. …”
“The man had relations with his wife Eve,
and she conceived and bore Cain, saying,
“I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.”
Next she bore his brother Abel.
Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. …”
“… I am the LORD your #God,
who brought you out
of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself a graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth;
you shall not bow down to them or serve them;
for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate me,
but showing steadfast love to thousands of those
who love me and keep my commandments. …”
“The Law contains natural prescriptions that already administer justice, and even before the gift of the Law to Moses, people observed these prescriptions and were justified by their faith and were pleasing to God. The Lord has not abolished those prescriptions but developed and fulfilled them as the following words testify: ‘You have heard that it was said: “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’ (Mt 5:27-28). And again: ‘It was said: “You shall not kill.” But I say to you: whoever is angry with his brother without reason will be answerable to the court” (cf. Mt 5:21f.)… And so on. None of these prescriptions imply either the contradiction nor the abolition of those that preceded them, but their fulfilment and development. As the Lord himself says: ‘Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven’ (Mt 5:20). …”
“… ‘You have heard that it was said,
You shall not commit adultery.
But I say to you,
everyone who looks at a woman with lust
has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin,
tear it out and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one of your members
than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.
And if your right hand causes you to sin,
cut it off and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one of your members
than to have your whole body go into Gehenna. …'”