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  Ordinary Time Jesus left that place and went into the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know that he had entered a house , but he couldn’t hide.  25  In fact, a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard about him right away. She came and fell at his feet.  26  The woman was Greek, Syrophoenician by birth. She begged Jesus to throw the demon out of her daughter.  27  He responded,  “The children have to be fed first. It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” 28  But she answered, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29  “Good answer!” he said. “Go on home. The demon has already left your daughter.”  30  When she returned to her house, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone. 31  After leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus went through Sidon toward the Galilee Sea through the region of the Ten Cities....

  Ordinary Time 4  But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”  5  And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”  6  And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.  7  And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”  8  And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.   (ESV)             An article in the Los Angeles Times from 2019 named the fact that “self-ca...

Fifth Sunday in Lent 20  Some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.  21  They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made a request: “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”  22  Philip told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip told Jesus. 23  Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Human One to be glorified.  24  I assure you that unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it can only be a single seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.  25  Those who love their lives will lose them, and those who hate their lives in this world will keep them forever.  26  Whoever serves me must follow me. Wherever I am, there my servant will also be. My Father will honor whoever serves me. 27  “Now  I am deeply troubled . What should I say? ‘Father, save me from this time’? No, for this is the reason I have come to this time.  28  Father, glorify your name!” Then a ...

  Fourth Sunday in Lent 4  Then they traveled from Mount Hor on the road toward the Sea of Suf in order to go around the land of Edom; but the people’s tempers grew short because of the detour.  5  The people spoke against God and against Moshe: “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt? To die in the desert? There’s no real food, there’s no water, and we’re sick of this miserable stuff we’re eating!” 6  In response, Adonai sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Isra’el’s people died.  7  The people came to Moshe and said, “We sinned by speaking against Adonai and against you. Pray to Adonai that he rid us of these snakes.” Moshe prayed for the people,  8  and Adonai answered Moshe: “Make a poisonous snake and put it on a pole. When anyone who has been bitten sees it, he will live.”  9  Moshe made a bronze snake and put it on the pole; if a snake had bitten some...