Saturday, September 10, 2011 {Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary}

REFLECTION FOR TODAY

Do not be suspicious of your brother, for you will lose purity of heart!! 
-- St. John of the Cross


READINGS FOR TODAY
First Reading: 1 Timothy 1:15-17
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, 
2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 
12 I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service, 
13 though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 
14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.


Psalms: Psalm 113:1-7
1 Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! 
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore! 
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the LORD is to be praised! 
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens! 
5 Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high, 
6 who looks far down upon the heavens and the earth? 
7 He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,


Gospel: Luke 6:43-49
43 "For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; 
44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. 
45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 
46 "Why do you call me `Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? 
47 Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 
48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 
49 But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."