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Saturday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 Ecclesiastes 11:9—12:8 Rejoice, O young man, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.Follow the ways of your heart,the vision of your eyes;Yet understand that as regards all thisGod will bring you to judgment.Ward off grief from your heartand put away trouble from your presence,though the dawn of youth is fleeting.Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,before the evil days comeAnd the years approach of which you will say,I have no pleasure in them;Before the sun is darkened,and the light, and the moon, and the stars,while the clouds return after the rain;When the guardians of the house tremble,and the strong men are bent,And the grinders are idle because they are few,and they who look through the windows grow blind;When the doors to the street are shut,and the sound of the mill is low;When one waits for the chirp of a bird,but all the daughters of song are suppressed;And one fears heights,and perils in

Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 There is an appointed time for everything,and a time for every thing under the heavens.A time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.A time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to tear down, and a time to build.A time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance.A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.A time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away.A time to rend, and a time to sew;a time to be silent, and a time to speak.A time to love, and a time to hate;a time of war, and a time of peace.What advantage has the worker from his toil?I have considered the task that God has appointedfor the sons of men to be busied about.He has made everything appropriate to its time,and has put the timeless into their hearts,without man’s ever discovering,from beginning to end, the work which God ha

Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!What profit has man from all the laborwhich he toils at under the sun?One generation passes and another comes,but the world forever stays.The sun rises and the sun goes down;then it presses on to the place where it rises.Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north,the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.All rivers go to the sea,yet never does the sea become full.To the place where they go,the rivers keep on going.All speech is labored;there is nothing one can say.The eye is not satisfied with seeingnor is the ear satisfied with hearing.What has been, that will be;what has been done, that will be done.Nothing is new under the sun.Even the thing of which we say, “See, this is new!”has already existed in the ages that preceded us.There is no remembrance of the men of old;nor of those to come will there be any remembranceamong

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