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July 20, 2016

Volume 133, Issue #15

Lectionary

August 7, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-40

Hope is the content of faith. Hope is the adopted son, the grafted inheritor. If there are to be, as with Abraham’s descendants, innumerable stars and grains of sands, it will be through this boy.

Ordinary 18C (Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21)

Paul says the hidden life is a moral one, putting off vices like a set of dirty old clothes.

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