August 20 - Thursday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.36:23-28; Ps.51:12-15,18-19,Ez.36:25; Mt.22:1-14) “Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.” The Lord desires to “prove the holiness of [His] great name,” which has been “profaned among the nations” by the children of Israel. And so He determines to “gather [them] from all the foreign lands,” to bring them back from their exile from His sight, and bless them again upon their “own land.” He will “cleanse [them] from all [their] impurities… a new heart and… a new spirit within” them, and they shall be “careful to observe [His] decrees”: “You shall be my…
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