"I also admonish and exhort the brothers that in their preaching their words be studied and chaste, useful and edifying to the people, telling them about vices and virtues, punishment and glory; and they ought to be brief, because the Lord kept his words brief when he was on earth." - Saint Francis of Assisi - Chapter IX, Approved Rule

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June 2025

11th Week of Ordinary Time C – Friday

Brothers and sisters in Christ, may he the Lord, give you peace. Today, our Lord speaks words that go straight to the heart: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven … For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.”

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11ª settimana del tempo ordinario C – Venerdì

Fratelli e sorelle in Cristo, oggi il Signore ci rivolge parole che vanno dritte al cuore: «Non accumulatevi tesori sulla terra, dove tignola e ruggine consumano e dove i ladri scassinano e rubano; accumulatevi invece tesori nel cielo [...] Perché dove è il tuo tesoro, là sarà anche il tuo cuore».

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11th Week of Ordinary Time C – Thursday

Today’s readings invite us to reflect on the importance of sincerity—both in our prayer life and in our faithfulness to Christ. In the first reading, Paul passionately urges the community in Corinth to accept him with love and humility. He reminds them that his love for them is genuine, rooted in his desire for their salvation and fidelity to the Gospel. Paul defends his ministry, emphasizing that his actions—preaching without charge, working to support himself—are signs of his sincere love and commitment. He warns against being misled by false teachers who preach a different Jesus, a different Spirit, and a different Gospel, and I would add, especially those who do it for their own selfish gain under the guise of a prosperity gospel. Saint Paul’s heartfelt plea was that the Corinthians remain faithful and true to the Gospel he had preached.

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11ª settimana del tempo ordinario C – Giovedì

Le letture di oggi ci invitano a riflettere sull'importanza della sincerità, sia nella nostra vita di preghiera che nella nostra fedeltà a Cristo. Nella prima lettura, Paolo esorta con passione la comunità di Corinto ad accoglierlo con amore e umiltà. Ricorda loro che il suo amore per loro è sincero, radicato nel suo desiderio di salvezza e fedeltà al Vangelo. Paolo difende il suo ministero, sottolineando che le sue azioni – predicare gratuitamente, lavorare per mantenersi – sono segni del suo amore sincero e del suo impegno. Egli mette in guardia dal lasciarsi fuorviare dai falsi maestri che predicano un Gesù diverso, uno Spirito diverso e un Vangelo diverso, e aggiungerei, specialmente quelli che lo fanno per il proprio tornaconto egoistico sotto le spoglie di un vangelo della prosperità. La supplica accorata di San Paolo era che i Corinzi rimanessero fedeli e fedeli al Vangelo che aveva predicato.

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11th Week of Ordinary Time C – Wednesday

Dear brothers and sisters, may the Lord Jesus give you peace. At Mass today, we will hear about the nature of genuine righteousness and Christian generosity in our readings. St. Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians, encourages us to sow generously, trusting in God's abundant grace. Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, reminds us that our acts of piety—giving alms, praying, fasting—must be rooted in sincerity and humility, not in seeking human praise.

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11ª settimana del tempo ordinario C – Mercoledì

Cari fratelli e sorelle, il Signore Gesù vi dia la pace. Nella Messa di oggi, nelle letture ascolteremo parlare della natura della vera giustizia e della generosità cristiana. San Paolo, nella sua seconda lettera ai Corinzi, ci incoraggia a seminare generosamente, confidando nell'abbondante grazia di Dio. Gesù, nel Vangelo di Matteo, ci ricorda che i nostri atti di pietà – elargire elemosine, pregare, digiunare – devono essere radicati nella sincerità e nell'umiltà, non nella ricerca della lode umana.

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USCCB Daily Readings

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 2 Corinthians 11:1-11

Brothers and sisters:
If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me!
Please put up with me.
For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God,
since I betrothed you to one husband
to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning,
your thoughts may be corrupted
from a sincere and pure commitment to Christ.
For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached,
or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received
or a different gospel from the one you accepted,
you put up with it well enough.
For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these ""superapostles.""
Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge;
in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.

Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might be exalted,
because I preached the Gospel of God to you without charge?
I plundered other churches by accepting from them
in order to minister to you.
And when I was with you and in need, I did not burden anyone,
for the brothers who came from Macedonia
supplied my needs.
So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
By the truth of Christ in me,
this boast of mine shall not be silenced
in the regions of Achaia.
And why?  Because I do not love you?
God knows I do!

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8

R.(7a) Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
exquisite in all their delights.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Majesty and glory are his work,
and his justice endures forever.
He has won renown for his wondrous deeds;
gracious and merciful is the LORD.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The works of his hands are faithful and just;
sure are all his precepts,
Reliable forever and ever,
wrought in truth and equity.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.

Alleluia Romans 8:15bc

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons
through which we cry: Abba! Father!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Matthew 6:7-15

Jesus said to his disciples:
"In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them.
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

"This is how you are to pray:

'Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.'

"If you forgive others their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."

 

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