August 19 - Tuesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Jgs.6:11-24; Ps.85:9,11-14; Mt.19:23-30) "Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you." The world is at enmity with God. The kingdom of heaven is not as the kingdom of this earth, thus Jesus tells us that "the last shall come first." For though we pray the Lord's kingdom come now to this earth, it shall not be fulfilled until "the new age when the Son of Man takes His seat upon a throne befitting His glory." We must therefore not judge with the mind of the world but continually struggle against it and its power. In our gospel Jesus calls the…
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