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One Bread, One Body One Bread, One Body contains daily teachings based on the Catholic Church's readings for daily Mass. Each teaching is sent to the Chancery for review.

In book form it is published 6 times a year and has a circulation of about 150,000 copies.

24/09/2024

WATER FOUNTAIN - One Bread, One Body, Sep 24, 2024: Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 | Psalm 119:1, 27, 30, 34-35, 44 | Luke 8:19-21
“Like a stream is the king’s heart in the hand of the Lord; wherever it pleases Him, He directs it.” —Proverbs 21:1

The Lord wants our hearts to become like water in His hand. With our hand, we can sprinkle, splash, stir, hold, throw, or pour water. Water offers little resistance. We can do almost anything we want with it.

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23/09/2024

PRIVILEGED POSITION - One Bread, One Body, Sep 23, 2024: Monday, September 23, 2024
St. Pio of Pietrelcina
Proverbs 3:27-34 | Psalm 15:2-5 | Luke 8:16-18
“No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel basket or under a bed; he puts it on a lampstand so that whoever comes in can see it.” —Luke 8:16

Jesus commanded us to put His light on the lampstand and proclaim the Gospel to the whole world (Lk 8:16). He also said His Word would get out to people even if we failed to proclaim it. “There is nothing hidden that will not be exposeMore...

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22/09/2024

PLEASURE SEEKING OR TREASURE SEEKING - One Bread, One Body, Sep 22, 2024: Sunday, September 22, 2024
25th Sunday Ordinary Time
Wisdom 2:12, 17-20 | James 3:16—4:3 | Psalm 54:3-8
“You ask and you do not receive because you ask wrongly, with a view to squandering what you receive on your pleasures.” —James 4:3

Human history provides ample testimony about the effects of pleasure seeking. One pleasure is never enough. People always want the next pleasure, followed by another. Companies thrive by stoking the pleasure-seeking desires of consumers. Left to oMore...

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21/09/2024

A TRAITOR CONVERTS! - One Bread, One Body, Sep 21, 2024: Saturday, September 21, 2024
St. Matthew
Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 | Psalm 19:2-5 | Matthew 9:9-13
“Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his post where taxes were collected.” —Matthew 9:9

St. Matthew was a tax collector. To a Jew, this was one of the most despicable jobs possible (see Mt 18:17). Tax collectors usually perpetrated violence and injustice against the poor. Worse than that, however, they sold out to the enemy, the RomaMore...

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20/09/2024

LIVING THE CHANGE - One Bread, One Body, Sep 20, 2024: Friday, September 20, 2024
St. Andrew Kim Taegon
& the Korean Martyrs
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 | Psalm 17:1, 6-8, 15 | Luke 8:1-3
“We should then be exposed as false witnesses of God.”—1 Corinthians 15:15

The Resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the central event of our faith (1 Cor 15:14ff). Our response to Jesus’ Resurrection makes a total difference in the world around us. If we do not live as a risen people, living a risen life to the fMore...

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19/09/2024

I “YAM” OR I AM? - One Bread, One Body, Sep 19, 2024: Thursday, September 19, 2024
St. Januarius
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 | Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 28 | Luke 7:36-50
“By God’s favor I am what I am.” —1 Corinthians 15:10

The old cartoon character, Popeye, used to flex his muscles, eat spinach, and say: “I yam what I yam. I’m Popeye, the sailor man.” Popeye was unwittingly quoting the Bible in the first part of this statement. St. Paul also said: More...

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18/09/2024

DO YOU LOVE? - One Bread, One Body, Sep 18, 2024: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13 | Psalm 33:2-5, 12, 22 | Luke 7:31-35
“If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” —1 Corinthians 13:3

Without love, even the best things in your life mean nothing. Therefore, the most important questions in the world are: Do you love the Lord with all your heart and soul? (Lk 10:27) Do you love your neighbor as yourself? (Lk 10:27) Do you love youMore...

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18/09/2024

SEEK THE GIFTS - One Bread, One Body, Sep 17, 2024: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Hildegard of Bingen
1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31 | Psalm 100:1-5 | Luke 7:11-17
“God has set up in the Church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, healers, assistants, administrators, and those who speak in tongues.” —1 Corinthians 12:28

Jesus “ascended high above the heavens, that He might fill all men with His gifts” (Eph 4:10). He commands us to set our hearts on spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:1), especially on the greater gifts (1 Cor 12:31), “those that build up More...

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18/09/2024

DO YOU LOVE? - One Bread, One Body, Sep 18, 2024: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13 | Psalm 33:2-5, 12, 22 | Luke 7:31-35
“If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” —1 Corinthians 13:3

Without love, even the best things in your life mean nothing. Therefore, the most important questions in the world are: Do you love the Lord with all your heart and soul? (Lk 10:27) Do you love your neighbor as yourself? (Lk 10:27) Do you love youMore...

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17/09/2024

SEEK THE GIFTS - One Bread, One Body, Sep 17, 2024: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Hildegard of Bingen
1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31 | Psalm 100:1-5 | Luke 7:11-17
“God has set up in the Church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, healers, assistants, administrators, and those who speak in tongues.” —1 Corinthians 12:28

Jesus “ascended high above the heavens, that He might fill all men with His gifts” (Eph 4:10). He commands us to set our hearts on spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:1), especially on the greater gifts (1 Cor 12:31), “those that build up More...

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16/09/2024

PAINFUL UNITY - One Bread, One Body, Sep 16, 2024: Monday, September 16, 2024
Pope St. Cornelius
St. Cyprian
1 Corinthians 11:17-26, 33 | Psalm 40:7-10, 17 | Luke 7:1-10
“There may even have to be factions among you for the tried and true to stand out clearly.” —1 Corinthians 11:19

Jesus prays at this moment that we may be one as He and the Father are One (Jn 17:21). However, this unity must come about through conversion and not by compromising basic truths. Jesus is not praying for the lowest-common-denominator unity of a wMore...

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15/09/2024

THE PRIVILEGE OF SUFFERING (Phil 1:29) - One Bread, One Body, Sep 15, 2024: Sunday, September 15, 2024
24th Sunday Ordinary Time
Isaiah 50:4-9 | James 2:14-18 | Psalm 116:1-6, 8-9
“He began to teach them that the Son of Man had to suffer much, be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be put to death, and rise three days later. He said these things quite openly.” —Mark 8:31-32

Jesus is very open about the fact that we will have to suffer and bear our “share of the hardship which the gospel entails” (2 Tm 1:8). He bluntly states that we who follow Him must deny ourselves and take up the cross (Mk 8:34). SuffeMore...

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