Category: Maronite Church Seasons
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Sunday of the Blind
2 Corinthians 10:1-7 Now I myself, Paul, urge you through the gentleness and clemency of Christ, I who am humble when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent, I beg you that, when present, I may not have to be brave with that confidence with which I intend to act boldly […]
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Sunday of the Paralytic
1 Timothy 5:24-6:5 Some people’s sins are public, preceding them to judgment; but other people are followed by their sins. Similarly, good works are also public; and even those that are not cannot remain hidden. Those who are under the yoke of slavery must regard their masters as worthy of full respect, so that the […]
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Sunday of the Prodigal Son
2 Corinthians 13:5-13 Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?–unless, of course, you fail the test. I hope you will discover that we have not failed. But we pray to God that you may not do evil, not that we […]
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Sunday of the Hemorrhaging Woman
2 Corinthians 7:4-11 I have great confidence in you, I have great pride in you; I am filled with encouragement, I am overflowing with joy all the more because of all our affliction. For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way–external conflicts, internal fears. […]
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Sunday of the Leper
Romans 6:12-23 Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for […]
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Ash Monday (not Ash Wednesday), followed by the first weekday cycle,
Ash Monday (not Ash Wednesday), followed by the first weekday cycle,
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Cana Sunday
Romans 14:14-23 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it unclean. If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy him for […]
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Faithful Departed
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Vigilance Brothers and Sisters: Concerning the times and the seasons, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will […]
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Rigtheous and Just
Hebrews 12:18-24 Penalties of Disobedience Brothers and Sisters: You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not […]
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Sunday of the Deceased Priests
The Readings of the day: 1 Timothy 4:6-16 Counsel to Timothy Brothers and Sisters: If you put these instructions before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with profane […]