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R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.12. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion.13. For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you.R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.14. He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has s...atisfied you with the fat of the grain.15. He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly.R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.19. He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.20. He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia.R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

5. Beloved: Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!6. This is the One who came by water and blood: Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies that the Christ is the Trut...h.7. For there are Three who give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. And these Three are One.8. And there are three who give testimony on earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And these three are one.9. If we accept the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater: that he has testified about his Son.10. Whoever believes in the Son of God, holds the testimony of God within himself. Whoever does not believe in the Son, makes him a liar, because he does not believe in the testimony which God has testified about his Son.11. And this is the testimony which God has given to us: Eternal Life. And this Life is in his Son.12. Whoever has the Son, has Life. Whoever does not have the Son, does not have Life.13. I am writing this to you, so that you may know that you have Eternal Life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

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14. And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit, into Galilee. And his fame spread throughout the entire region.15. And he taught in their synagogues, and he was magnified by everyone.16. And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the syna...gogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read.17. And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written:18. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,19. to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”20. And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.21. Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”22. And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”

R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.1. A Psalm according to Solomon.2. Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.14. H...e will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.15. And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.17. May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

19. Beloved: Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.20. If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?21. And this is the ...commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.1. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves God, who provides that birth, also loves him who has been born of God.2. In this way, we know that we love those born of God: when we love God and do his commandments.3. For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.4. For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.

45. And without delay he urged his disciples to climb into the boat, so that they might precede him across the sea to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the people.46. And when he had dismissed them, he went to the mountain to pray.47. And when it was late, the boat was in t...he midst of the sea, and he was alone on the land.48. And seeing them struggling to row, (for the wind was against them,) and about the fourth watch of the night, he came to them, walking upon the sea. And he intended to pass by them.49. But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they thought it was an apparition, and they cried out.50. For they all saw him, and they were very disturbed. And immediately he spoke with them, and he said to them: “Be strengthened in faith. It is I. Do not be afraid.”51. And he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they became even more astonished within themselves.52. For they did not understand about the bread. For their heart had been blinded.

R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.1. A Psalm according to Solomon.2. Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.10. T...he kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.12. For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.13. He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

11. Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12. No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.13. In this way, we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he has given to u...s from his Spirit.14. And we have seen, and we testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.15. Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.16. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.17. In this way, the love of God is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment. For as he is, so also are we, in this world.18. Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.

34. And Jesus, going out, saw a great multitude. And he took pity on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.35. And when many hours had now passed, his disciples drew near to him, saying: “This is a deserted place, ...and the hour is now late.36. Send them away, so that by going out to nearby villages and towns, they might buy provisions for themselves to eat.”37. And responding, he said to them, “Give them something to eat yourselves.” And they said to him, “Let us go out and buy bread for two hundred denarii, and then we will give them something to eat.”38. And he said to them: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”39. And he instructed them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.40. And they sat down in divisions by hundreds and by fifties.41. And having received the five loaves and the two fish, gazing up to heaven, he blessed and broke the bread, and he gave it to his disciples to set before them. And the two fish he divided among them all.42. And they all ate and were satisfied.43. And they brought together the remainder: twelve baskets full of fragments and of fish.44. Now those who ate were five thousand men.

R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.1. A Psalm according to Solomon.2. Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.3. Le...t the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.4. He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.7. In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.8. And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

7. Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.8. Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.9. The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son int...o the world, so that we might live through him.10. In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.

John Neumann was born on March 28, 1811, in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. His parents were Philip and Agnes Neumann. He had four sisters and a brother. After college, John entered the seminary. When the time came for his ordination, the bishop was sick and th...e date was never rescheduled as Bohemia had enough priests at the time. Since he had been reading about missionary activities in the United States, John decided to go to America and request to be ordained there. He walked most of the way to France and then boarded a ship to New York.John arrived in Manhattan on June 9, 1836, were he was gladly welcomed by Bishop John Dubois, who at that time had only thirty-six priests for the two hundred thousand Catholics living in the state of New York and part of New Jersey. Just sixteen days after his arrival, John was ordained a priest and sent to Buffalo.Father John established himself in a small log parish house, he hardly ever lit a fire and often lived on only bread and water. He joined the Redemptorist order and continued his missionary work until he was elected bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. As bishop, Neumann built fifty churches and began the constuction of a cathedral. He opened almost one hundred schools, and the number of parochial school students grew from five hundred to nine thousand. He died suddenly on January 5, 1860.He became the first American bishop to be beatified. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI on June 19, 1977. He is buried in St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia.

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12. And when Jesus had heard that John had been handed over, he withdrew into Galilee.13. And leaving behind the city of Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, near the sea, at the borders of Zebulun and of Naphtali,14. in order to fulfill what was said through the p...rophet Isaiah:15. “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:16. A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.”17. From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say: “Repent. For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near.”23. And Jesus traveled throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every infirmity among the people.24. And reports of him went out to all of Syria, and they brought to him all those who had maladies, those who were in the grasp of various sicknesses and torments, and those who were in the hold of demons, and the mentally ill, and paralytics. And he cured them.25. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee, and from the Ten Cities, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from across the Jordan.

R. I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.7. The Lord has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you.8. Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.R. I will give you all th...e nations for an inheritance.10. And now, O kings, understand. Receive instruction, you who judge the earth.11. Serve the Lord in fear, and exult in him with trembling.R. I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.

22. Beloved: whatever we shall request of him, we shall receive from him. For we keep his commandments, and we do the things that are pleasing in his sight.23. And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another..., just as he has commanded us.1. Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.2. The Spirit of God may be known in this way. Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has arrived in the flesh is of God;3. and every spirit who contradicts Jesus is not of God. And this one is the Antichrist, the one that you have heard is coming, and even now he is in the world.4. Little sons, you are of God, and so you have overcome him. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.5. They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens to them.6. We are of God. Whoever knows God, listens to us. Whoever is not of God, does not listen to us. In this way, we know the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton was the foundress and first superior of the Sisters of Charity in the United States.  She was born to Episcopalian parents into New York City high society on August 28 1774.Her father, Dr. Richard Bayley was the first professor of anatomy at C...olumbia College and praised for his work as the health officer of the Port of New York.  Her mother, Catherine Charlton, daughter of an Anglican minister of Staten Island, N.Y. died when Elizabeth was three years old, leaving her and two other young daughters.Elizabeth was married on January 25, 1794, in St. Paul's Episcopalian Church to William Magee Seton.  William fell into financial troubles, and later died of tuberculosis in Pisa (Italy) in December 1803. After getting to know the Catholic Church in Italy, Elizabeth fasted and prayed for light. Finally, on Ash Wednesday, March 14, 1805, she was received into the Church.Her conversion unleashed a storm among her Protestant relatives and friends and made her financial strains even greater.  In January 1806, Cecilia Seton, Elizabeth's young sister-in-law, became very ill and begged to see the ostracized convert and told her of her desire to become a Catholic. When Cecilia's decision was known threats were made to have Mrs. Seton expelled from the state by the Legislature.  On her recovery Cecilia fled to Elizabeth for refuge and was received into the Church.Elizabeth moved to Baltimore in 1808 and with the help of a Catholic convert, a farm was purchased two miles from Mt. St. Mary's College and Mrs. Seton took vows privately before Archbishop Carroll and her daughter Anna.In 1810, Bishop Flaget was commissioned to obtain in France the rules of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. The rule, with some modifications, was approved by Archbishop Carroll in January 1812, and adopted.  Mrs. Seton was elected superior against her will and in spite of the fact that she had also to care for her children.  Many joined the community; including Mother Seton's daughter, Anna, who died during her novitiate (March 12, 1812), but had been permitted to pronounce her vows on her deathbed. Mother Seton and eighteen sisters made their vows on July 19, 1813.The third time she was elected superior in 1819, she protested that it was the "election of the dead," but she lived for two years more, finally succuming to a pulmonary affection.  She died in Emmitsburg, Maryland on January 4, 1821.In 1880 Cardinal Gibbons (then Archbishop) urged the steps be taken toward her canonization. Elizabeth Ann Seton was beatified in 1963 and she was canonized on September 14, 1975.

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Doctor of the Church, born at Arianzus, in Asia Minor, provably 325; died at the same place, 389. He was son of Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus (329-374.)After his baptism at 30, Gregory joined his friend Basil in a newly founded monastery.At 41, Gregory was chosen suffrag...an bishop of Caesarea and like his good friend St. Basil, had a hard time fighting against Aryanism and opposing the then Arian emperor, Valens.It was in Constantinople, where he tried to bring back Christians from Aryanism, where he began giving the great sermons on the Trinity for which he is famous.He was acclaimed simply as “the Theologian.”

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