Monday of the Twenty Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I shall return. The Lord gave, the Lord has taken back. Blessed be the name of the Lord!’

‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I shall return. The Lord gave, the Lord has taken back. Blessed be the name of the Lord!’
"I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you."
...remember your creator in the days of your youth, before evil days come and the years approach
"There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven"
“Vanity of vanities!" ... might not mean quite what you think.
These wounds aren't just decoration! - Padre Pio
‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice.’
"As Jesus was walking on, he saw a man named Matthew sitting by the customs house, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him."
“My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go."
"A sower went out to sow his seed." ... again!
"if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is useless and your believing it is useless;"
"She waited behind him at his feet, weeping, and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment."
Love is always patient and kind... etc!
"Woman this is your son..."
"...and the Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert."
"...they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents." Turns out that's a lot!
"...gaze up at this star, call out to Mary." St Bernard of Clairvaux
‘Can one blind man guide another?' ... Don't follow the blind guy, follow Jesus instead.
Eating meat ... we fought about it then too!
Celibacy??? Is that thing still around?
Happy Birthday!
"I have been told as an undoubted fact that one of you is living with his father’s wife." ...wait... WHAT?
‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
"What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as though it were not?"
‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them?'
Duc in altum! Put out into the deep.
"At sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them."
I know who you are: the Holy One of God. - Devils get it ... Nazarenes don't.
He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him.
‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’