August 9 - Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Dt.6:4-13; Ps.18:2-4,47,51; Mt.17:14-20) “Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.” In our first reading we hear the Shema, the great Commandment of the Mosaic Law – the Lord is God and we must love Him with all our being. Moses exhorts the people “not to forget to the Lord,” who brought them out of slavery in the land of Egypt and is about to bless them abundantly in the Promised Land. Quite graphic is he, and are their practices, in encouraging remembrance of the Lord’s command. His words are to be drilled into the children, bound at wrists and on foreheads, and…
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