19 septembre 2026 – Samedi de la 24^ème semaine ordinaire (paire)

1 Co 15, 35-37.42-49; Luc 8, 4-15

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          L’agriculture ou le jardinage peuvent être une bonne école de patience, de confiance et d’abandon.  Une fois qu’on a travaillé le sol, qu’on y a déposé les semences et qu’on l’a arrosé, on n’a plus qu’à attendre avec patience.  Durant un premier temps il n’y a aucun moyen de savoir de façon certaine si la semence croîtra ou non.  Ensuite on ne peut savoir dans quelle mesure elle croîtra.  On peut agir de diverses manières sur les conditions qui favorisent la croissance, mais on ne peut intervenir aucunement dans le processus même de croissance.  Gardant tout ceci présent à l’esprit, revenons maintenant à la lecture de l’Évangile d’aujourd’hui.

18 September 2026 – Friday of the 24th week

1 Cor 15, 12-20; Luke 8:1-3

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These three short verses, which seem somewhat innocuous, shed a great deal of light on Jesus' ministry and the lifestyle he adopted with his disciples. This lifestyle had little in common with the rabbinical schools of the time, where disciples could gather around a teacher to receive training, but in a specific place and without participating in the teacher's mission. It was also different from that of the prophets of the Old Testament, who may have had one or two disciples (such as Elisha, Elijah's disciple), but not a group travelling with them.

September 19, 2026 – Saturday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time (even-numbered)

1 Cor 15:35–37, 42–49; Luke 8:4–15

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Farming or gardening can be a good lesson in patience, trust, and surrender. Once the soil has been tilled, the seeds sown, and the plants watered, all that remains is to wait patiently. At first, there is no way to know for certain whether the seed will grow or not. Nor can one know to what extent it will grow. One can take various steps to create conditions that promote growth, but one cannot intervene in the process of growth itself. Keeping all this in mind, let us now return to today’s Gospel reading.

September 26, 2026 – Saturday of the 25th week of Ordinary Time

Luke 9:43b-45

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We continue our reading of chapter 9 of Luke's Gospel, which we began a few days ago.

Peter's profession of faith in Caesarea was followed by Jesus' first announcement of his Passion. “The Son of Man,” he said, “must suffer greatly, be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be killed, and on the third day rise again.” About eight days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him up the mountain, where he was transfigured before them. After that, he made the second announcement of the Passion—which is the short text we have just read—and then came the long journey to Jerusalem, during which Luke placed several of Jesus' most radical calls to follow him, in particular the call to the rich young man to give up all his possessions and follow him.

13 September 2026 – 24th Sunday ‘A’

Sirach 27:30–28:7; Romans 14:7–9; Matthew 18:21–35

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This business of ‘seven times’ and ‘seventy times seven’ is a very old story. It dates back to the time of Cain and Abel. After Abel’s murder, according to the account in Genesis, God banished Cain from Paradise. Cain then said to God: ‘If you drive me out today from this land, I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’ And the Lord replied: ‘Well then! If anyone kills Cain, he shall be avenged sevenfold.’ And, a few generations later, Lamech, Cain’s grandson, took two wives, Ada and Zilla, and said to them, rather defiantly: ‘Ada and Zilla, listen to my voice! Wives of Lamech, lend an ear to my words! Yes, I have killed a man for a wound, a child for a bruise. Yes, Cain will be avenged sevenfold, but Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

14 septembre 2026 – Fête de la Croix glorieuse

Nb 21, 4-9 ; Ph 2, 6-11 ; Jn 3, 13-17

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           Nos missels tendent à donner à la fête d’aujourd’hui le nom de « Fête de la croix glorieuse ».  C’est sans doute là une très belle expression ; mais le nom traditionnel de cette fête, qui est une traduction littérale du nom grec, est celui de « Fête de l’Exaltation de la Sainte Croix ».  Le mot « exaltation » est admirablement ambigu.  Il peut désigner le mouvement consistant à élever la croix sur laquelle se trouve un condamné (dans l’acte même de la crucifixion), ou bien le mouvement consistant à élever la croix bien haut, en signe de triomphe, et pour lui rendre gloire.