Bendito sea el Señor, mi Roca, el que adiestra mis brazos para el combate y mis manos para la lucha. El es mi bienhechor y mi fortaleza, mi baluarte y mi libertador; él es el escudo con que me resguardo, y el que somete los pueblos a mis pies. Dios mío, yo quiero cantarte un canto nuevo y tocar para ti con el arpa de diez cuerdas,
porque tú das la victoria a los reyes y libras a David, tu servidor.
Lecturas Católicas Romanas – rosary.team
Se me dijo a mí, Juan: «Estos dos testigos son los dos olivos y los dos candelabros que están delante del Señor de la tierra.
Si alguien quiere hacerles daño, saldrá un fuego de su boca que consumirá a sus enemigos: así perecerá el que se atreva a dañarlos.
Ellos tienen el poder de cerrar el cielo para impedir que llueva durante los días de su misión profética; y también, tienen poder para cambiar las aguas en sangre y para herir la tierra con toda clase de plagas, todas las veces que quieran.
Y cuando hayan acabado de dar testimonio, la Bestia que surge del Abismo les hará la guerra, los vencerá y los matará.
Sus cadáveres yacerán en la plaza de la gran Ciudad -llamada simbólicamente Sodoma y también Egipto- allí mismo donde el Señor fue crucificado.
Estarán expuestos durante tres días y medio, a la vista de gente de todos los pueblos, familias, lenguas y naciones, y no se permitirá enterrarlos.
Los habitantes de la tierra se alegrarán y harán fiesta, y se intercambiarán regalos, porque estos dos profetas los habían atormentado».
Pero después de estos tres días y medio, un soplo de vida de Dios entró en ellos y los hizo poner de pie, y un gran temor se apoderó de los espectadores.
Entonces escucharon una voz potente que les decía desde el cielo: “Suban aquí”. Y ellos subieron al cielo en la nube, a la vista de sus enemigos.
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The flesh is precious in God’s sight; of all his works it is the one he prefers and so it is natural that he would save it…Don’t you think it would be ridiculous if something that was created with so much care, that which the Creator considers to be more precious than anything else, were to fall back into nothingness? When a sculptor or painter wants the images they have fashioned to remain to testify to their glory, they restore them once they have deteriorated. And would God see his property, his work, fall back into nothingness and exist no more? We would call a “laborer of uselessness” anyone who built a house to destroy it or who allowed it to fall into ruins when he might have kept it standing. In the same way, would we not be accusing God of creating the flesh without purpose? But no, the Immortal one is not like that; he who is by nature the Spirit of the universe cannot be a fool!… The truth is that God has called the flesh to be born again and has promised it eternal life. Because wherever the good news of man’s salvation is proclaimed, it is proclaimed also for the flesh. For what, indeed, is man if not a living being endowed with intelligence, formed of soul and body? Does the soul alone make a man? No, for it is the soul of a man. Are we to call “man” the body? No, we say that it is the body of a man. So if neither of these two elements makes up man by itself alone, it is the union of the two that we call “man”. However, it is man that God has called to life and resurrection: not part of him but the whole man, namely soul and body. So wouldn’t it be absurd if, while both exist according to and within the same reality, one of them should be saved and the other not?
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Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus,
saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second
and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called ‘Lord’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Some of the scribes said in reply, “Teacher, you have answered well.”
And they no longer dared to ask him anything.
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war. My mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, my shield, in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me. O God, I will sing a new song to you; with a ten stringed lyre I will chant your praise,
You who give victory to kings, and deliver David, your servant from the evil sword.
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I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me: Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain.
They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of their prophesying. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish.
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will wage war against them and conquer them and kill them.
Their corpses will lie in the main street of the great city, which has the symbolic names “Sodom” and “Egypt,” where indeed their Lord was crucified.
Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried.
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and be glad and exchange gifts because these two prophets tormented the inhabitants of the earth.
But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them. When they stood on their feet, great fear fell on those who saw them.
Then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, “Come up here.” So they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies looked on.
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team
Up with us then at last, for Scripture arouses us saying: “Now is the hour for us to rise from sleep” (Rm 13:11). Let us open our eyes to the divine light, and let us hear with attentive ears the warning that the divine voice cries daily to us : “Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts” (Ps 95[94]:8). And again: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rv 2:7). And what does he say? “Come, children, hear me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord” (Ps 34[33]:12). “Run while you have the light of life , lest the darkness of death overtake you” (Jn 12:35). And the Lord, seeking his worker among the multitudes to whom he thus cries, says again: “Which of you desires life and would like to see prosperous days? (Ps 34[33]:13) And if hearing him you answer, “I am he,” God says to you: if you would have true and everlasting life, “keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek after peace and pursue it” (Ps 34[33]:14-15). And when you have done these things, my eyes will be upon you and my ears open unto your prayers. And before you call me, I shall say to you, “Lo, here I am” (Is 58:9). What can be sweeter to us, dearest brethren, than this voice of our Lord inviting us? Behold in his loving mercy the Lord show us the way of life. Let us therefore gird our loins with faith and the performance of good deeds, and following the guidance of the gospel, walk in his paths so that we may merit to see him who has called us into his Kingdom (1Thes 2:12). For if we wish to live in the dwellings of his Kingdom, unless we run there with good deeds we shall not arrive.
Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: The Kingdom of Heaven shall be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.
And five of them were foolish and five wise.
But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them.
But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.
And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.
The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.
Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.
But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.
Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.
Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team
En verdad es justo y necesario, es nuestro deber y salvación darte gracias siempre y en todo lugar, Señor, Padre santo, Dios todopoderoso y eterno. Porque te has dignado habitar en toda casa consagrada a la oración, para hacer de nosotros, con la ayuda constante de tu gracia, templos del Espíritu Santo (1Co 3,16), resplandecientes por la santidad de vida. Con tu acción constante, Señor, santificas a la Iglesia, esposa de Cristo, simbolizada en edificios visibles, para que así, como madre gozosa por la multitud de sus hijos, pueda ser presentada en la gloria de tu Reino. Por eso con los ángeles y todos los santos cantamos sin cesar el himno de tu gloria:¡Santo! ¡Santo! ¡Santo!
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Jesús al entrar al Templo, se puso a echar a los vendedores,
diciéndoles: “Está escrito: Mi casa será una casa de oración, pero ustedes la han convertido en una cueva de ladrones”.
Y diariamente enseñaba en el Templo. Los sumos sacerdotes, los escribas y los más importantes del pueblo, buscaban la forma de matarlo.
Pero no sabían cómo hacerlo, porque todo el pueblo lo escuchaba y estaba pendiente de sus palabras.
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