Daily Mass Readings Exegesis
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September 4, 2025 – Redeemed & Sent in Today’s Mass Readings
Tired nets. Wild catch. A new mission. 🎣 Today’s readings are a masterclass in trust, gratitude, and calling. 🚤 Gospel, Luke 5:1-11 “Put out into deep water.” Peter obeys and the empty nets explode with life. Jesus answers fear with… Continue reading
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September 3, 2025 – Faith, Hope & Healing in Today’s Mass Readings
Healed to serve. Sent to proclaim. ✨ Paul lifts up a Church where faith, love, and hope are already bearing fruit (Col 1:1–8). That is the blueprint for real growth. The psalm roots us like an olive tree in God’s… Continue reading
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September 2, 2025 – Awake in the Light in Today’s Mass Readings
Awake in the Light. Jesus speaks and darkness obeys. ✨🕯️ In 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11, Paul names us “children of the light” and calls us to be “alert and sober”. You are not destined for wrath. You are destined for… Continue reading
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September 1, 2025 – Hope & Salvation in Today’s Mass Readings
Hope is not hype. The King comes. ✨ 📖 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: Grief meets the trumpet of God and the voice of an archangel. “We shall always be with the Lord.” This is concrete hope for funerals, fears, and every… Continue reading
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August 31st – Saint of the Day: Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
He gave away a king’s horse to a beggar, walked the coastline instead of riding, and lit Northumbria on fire with the Gospel. 🔥 Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne turned gifts into alms, freed captives, trained future saints like Hilda, Cedd,… Continue reading
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August 31, 2025 – Humility & Divine Joy in Today’s Mass Readings
“The way up is down.” ⬇️⬆️ Today’s readings flip the status game and open the door to joy. 👂 Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29: Real greatness is humility. Take the low road and find mercy. 🏠 Psalm 68:4-7, 10-11: God fathers… Continue reading
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August 30, 2025 – Stewardship & Charity in Today’s Mass Readings
Stop burying your gifts. God didn’t hand you a shovel—He handed you a mission. 🔥 Your ordinary work can be holy ground. In 1 Thessalonians 4:9–11, we’re “taught by God to love one another” and called to “progress even more”—yes,… Continue reading
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August 29, 2025 – Holiness & Truth in Today’s Mass Readings
Truth crashed the party. A dance, a rash oath, a prophet’s head… and a King whose justice still stands. ✨⚖️ 🔥 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8: God’s will is your holiness—real sexual integrity, honor in relationships, and a life empowered by the… Continue reading
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August 28, 2025 – Watchful Love & Stewardship in Today’s Mass Readings
Ready hearts, busy hands. 🕯️🍞⏳ Readiness isn’t doomscrolling—it’s feeding someone at “the proper time.” In 1 Thessalonians 3:7–13, Paul shocks us with joy: “We now live, if you stand firm in the Lord.” His prayer? That we “increase and abound… Continue reading
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August 26th – Saint of the Day: Saint Jeanne-Élisabeth Bichier des Âges
She rode through the night for clandestine Mass… then turned prayer into action—founding the Daughters of the Cross, opening village schools, and nursing the forgotten. Saint Jeanne-Élisabeth Bichier des Âges shows how adoration becomes a lifestyle: receive Jesus, then go… Continue reading
Holy Manna! 