Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Book of Exodus

22,20-26.

Thus says the LORD: "You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.
If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.
My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.
If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him.
If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset;
for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate."

Psalms

18(17),2-3a.3bc-4.47.51a-51b.

I love you, O LORD, my strength,
O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.
My God, my rock of refuge,
my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!
Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies.
The LORD lives! And blessed be my rock!
Extolled be God my savior.
You who gave great victories to your king
and showed kindness to your anointed;
to David and his posterity forever

First Letter to the Thessalonians

1,5c-10.

For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the holy Spirit and with much conviction. You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the holy Spirit,
so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and (in) Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.
For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from (the) dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

22,34-40.

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

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St. Narcissus(Bishop (2nd century))

SAINT NARCISSUS Bishop (2nd century) St. Narcissus was consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem circa 180. Although elderly, God attested his merits through miracles long-held in the memory of Jerusalem's Christians. One Holy Saturday, the oil for lamps during the Paschal feast went missing. Bp. Narcissus bade the faithful draw water from a neighboring well, prayed over it, and told them to put it in the lamps. The water had become oil; and some of it is still preserved. The bishop's virtues scandalized certain men, and three false acusers charged him with a henious crime. One narrator says that the accusers confirmed their testimony by horrible imprecations: The first prayed that he might perish by fire, the second wasted by leprosy, and the third struck blind if they charged the bishop falsely. The holy bishop had long desired a life of solitude, and withdrew into the desert. But Divine Justice came into effect: Each accuser suffered the penalties he invoked and Bp. Narcissus returned to Jerusalem. Bp. Narcissus passed away in extreme old age. He served as bishop until the end; a servant to the servants; a good shepherd. Reigning with Christ forever, he intercedes for those who ask him with faith.

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