DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION
JUNE 8, 2024
SATURDAY - MEMORIAL OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
FIRST READING
2 TIMOTHY 4:1-8 OR (ISAIAH 61:9-11)
1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. 5 As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. 6 For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PSALMS 70(71):8-9, 14-17, 22 OR (1 SAMUEL 2:1, 4-8)
Response: I will sing of thy salvation.
My mouth is filled with thy praise,
and with thy glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
R. I will sing of thy salvation.
But I will hope continually,
and will praise thee yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts,
of thy deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
R. I will sing of thy salvation.
With the mighty deeds of the LORD GOD I will come,
I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.
O God, from my youth thou hast taught me,
and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.
R. I will sing of thy salvation.
I will also praise thee with the harp
for thy faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to thee with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
R. I will sing of thy salvation.
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GOSPEL
His mother kept all these things in her heart
LUKE 2:41-51 OR (MARK 12:38-44)
41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom; 43 and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 44 but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances; 45 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; 47 and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." 49 And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 50 And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
The Gospel of the Lord
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REFLECTION
DAILY QUOTE FROM THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
Mary dwelt in meditation on Jesus' words and actions, by Bede the Venerable, 672-735 A.D.
"Consider the most prudent woman Mary, mother of true Wisdom, as the pupil of her Son. For she learned from him, not as from a child or man but as from God. Yes, she dwelt in meditation on his words and actions. Nothing of what was said or done by him fell idly on her mind. As before, when she conceived the Word itself in her womb, so now does she hold within her his ways and words, cherishing them as it were in her heart. That which she now beholds in the present, she waits to have revealed with greater clarity in the future. This practice she followed as a rule and law through all her life."
(excerpt from EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 2.51.20)
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