Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ez 17:22-24/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34
“So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord. “
2 Corinthians 5:6-8, NABRE
Monday
1 Kgs 21:1-16/Mt 5:38-42
“ Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. Some time later, Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, since it is close by, next to my house. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or, if you prefer, I will give you its value in money.” Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage.””
1 Kings 21:1-3, NABRE
Tuesday
1 Kgs 21:17-29/Mt 5:43-48
“But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you”
Matthew 5:44, NABRE
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Wednesday
2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14/Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
“When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Request whatever I might do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of your spirit.” He replied, “You have asked something that is not easy. Still, if you see me taken up from you, your wish will be granted; otherwise not.””
2 Kings 2:9-10, NABRE
Thursday
Sir 48:1-14/Mt 6:7-15
“By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens,
and also three times brought down fire.
How glorious you were, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
Whose glory is equal to yours?”
Sirach 48:3-4, NRSVCE
Friday
2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20/Mt 6:19-23
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. “
Matthew 6:19-20, NRSVCE
Saturday
2 Chr 24:17-25/Mt 6:24-34
“Now after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king listened to them. They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the sacred poles[a] and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; they testified against them, but they would not listen.”
2 Chronicles 24:17-19, NRSVCE
