18th Week: Aug 7-12:

  18^th Week: Aug 7-12:

Aug 7 Monday: St. Sixtus II, Pope and companion martyrs;  St Cajetan: 

18th Week, Saturday, August 12

 18th Week, Saturday, August 12

Deut 6:4-13 / Matthew 17:14-20 

Moses recites the Shema Israel; "Love the Lord with all your heart."

19th Sunday A: The Lord Calms the Storm

18th Week, Friday; Aug 11: Saint Clare

God blessed greatly: "You must keep his commandments."

18th Week, Friday

Deuteronomy 4:32-40 / Matthew 16:24-28

18th Week, Thursday, August 10: Saint Lawrence

 18th Week, Thursday, August 10

Numbers 20:1-13 / Matthew 16:13-23 

God blessed you greatly; You must keep his commandments

18th Week, Wednesday, August 9: St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

   18th Week,  Wednesday, August 9

Numbers 13:1-2, 25 - 14:1, 26-29, 34-35 / Matthew 15:21-28 

The Israelites complain; The people wailed in the night.

18th Week, Tuesday, August 8: Saint Dominic

 18th Week, Tuesday, August 8

Numbers 12:1-13 / Matthew 15:1-2, 12-14

Aaron and Miriam envy Moses; "Doesn't God speak through us also?" 

18th Week, Monday, August 7: St Sixtus II & Companions

 18th Week, Monday, August7

Numbers 11:4-15 / Matthew 14:13-21

Moses prays to God; "1 can't carry this burden any longer.

Aug 6: The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord - Liturgical Prayers

  Greeting

Today God our Father tells us: This is my beloved Son. Listen to him. May the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ resound in your hearts and in your lives.

18th Sunday A: Multiplication

5 Sundays: Summary

1) Preparing the soil: Meek and humble of heart. The word humility comes from the Latin, humus which means earth. Be earthy, natural, without put on. That's the sort of soil.
2) Types of soil: Defiant (rocky/stony), distracted (thorny) and defeated (birds picking or people trampling). Ignatius of Loyola had a defiant and distracted heart in the beginning but never defeated.