Thus says the LORD:Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, but stands in a lava waste, a salt and empty earth. Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: it fears not the heat when it comes; its leaves stay greenin the year of drought, it shows no distress, but still bears fruit.
Responsorial PsalmPs 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6(40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked,nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
reading II
1 Cor 15:12, 16-20
Brothers and sisters:
If Christ is preached as raised from the dead,
how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
If the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised,
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain;
you are still in your sins.
Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ,
we are the most pitiable people of all.
But now Christ has been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Gospel
Lk 6:17, 20-26
Jesus came down with the twelve
and stood on a stretch of level ground
with a great crowd of his disciples
and a large number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem
and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.
And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
for the kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who are now hungry,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who are now weeping,
for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you,
and when they exclude and insult you,
and denounce your name as evil
on account of the Son of Man.
Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!
Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.
For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
But woe to you who are rich,
for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are filled now,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will grieve and weep.
Woe to you when all speak well of you,
for their ancestors treated the false
prophets in this way.” |
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Catholic Fundamentalism Interpretation:
We, ourselves, can become our own idols, and we're cursed if allow ourselves to replace The Programmer with some programmed entity. It is fruitless to worship anything but He Who wrote and downloaded the Creation Program and downloaded our individual program within in.
If we trust The Programmer, He will be sure to program everything we need for. We will not need to be afraid of any created entity or fear the lack of same, productive all our lives.
Blessed are those hoping that The Programmer will provide programming assistance (through His angelic sub-Programmers). They who don't embrace programming errors or put them into practice or run down others' programs, but relish The Programmer's Operating Instructions and thinks about them day and night are blessed.
Blessed are those hoping that The Programmer will provide programming assistance (through His angelic sub-Programmers). They do what they're supposed to, and prosper unendingly because of it.
Blessed are those hoping that The Programmer will provide programming assistance (through His angelic sub-Programmers). Those who ignore His Operating Instructions disappear, blown away because they have no anchor in truth.
Blessed are those hoping that The Programmer will provide programming assistance (through His angelic sub-Programmers).
The fullness of The Program is being taught by St. Paul, who's using the fact that hundreds of living eyewitnesses, fellow believers, actually saw Jesus Christ risen from the dead. Therefore, based on their testimony, He is risen, and so, therefore are the dead.
His Resurrection is the key to our understanding of The Programmer, Program, and Holy Wireless Connector, as well as of the entire Creation Program.
Sinfulness keeps people from belief in eternal life, as shown to exist by The Resurrection. If we only believe in Christ, and that He lived and died, we are pathetic fools. But, since He's been raised, so will we.
Jesus came with the twelve apostles and stood on level ground with a large crowd of disciples and descendents of Abraham and Hamites from the coast. He looked at His disciples, and said:
"Blessed are you who are
poor,
hungry,
weeping,
hated,
excluded, and denounced because you loved The Programmer and Me, (The Program in living form) more than you loved the programmed entities of such concern to those who focus on them.
Be elated, because The Programmer will reward you for having seen that He is more important than earthly concerns. Their ancestors treated the prophets the same way.
Woe to you who are rich, you've received all the rewards you're going to get. You who are filled will be able to download nothing in the world to come.
You who laugh now will not be laughing long, instead you will be filled with woe.
It will be especially bad for those of you who are well spoken of. It only means that you have worshipped popularity and gain of mere programmed entities. Their ancestors, just like those in love with programmed entities, also followed false prophets."
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