{"id":4283,"date":"2018-02-15T01:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2018-02-09T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:29:34","slug":"mass-readings-february-15th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/mass-readings-february-15th-2018","title":{"rendered":"Mass Readings for February 15th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #993300;\">First Reading &#8211;\u00a0Dt 30<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\">Moses said to the people:<br \/>\n&#8220;Today I have set before you<br \/>\nlife and prosperity, death and doom.<br \/>\nIf you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwhich I enjoin on you today,<br \/>\nloving him, and walking in his ways,<br \/>\nand keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees,<br \/>\nyou will live and grow numerous,<br \/>\nand the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwill bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.<br \/>\nIf, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen,<br \/>\nbut are led astray and adore and serve other gods,<br \/>\nI tell you now that you will certainly perish;<br \/>\nyou will not have a long life<br \/>\non the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.<br \/>\nI call heaven and earth today to witness against you:<br \/>\nI have set before you life and death,<br \/>\nthe blessing and the curse.<br \/>\nChoose life, then,<br \/>\nthat you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nheeding his voice, and holding fast to him.<br \/>\nFor that will mean life for you,<br \/>\na long life for you to live on the land that the LORD swore<br \/>\nhe would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #993300;\">Gospel &#8211;\u00a0Luke 9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n&#8220;The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected<br \/>\nby the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,<br \/>\nand be killed and on the third day be raised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he said to all,<br \/>\n&#8220;If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself<br \/>\nand take up his cross daily and follow me.<br \/>\nFor whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,<br \/>\nbut whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.<br \/>\nWhat profit is there for one to gain the whole world<br \/>\nyet lose or forfeit himself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #993300;\">This is the\u00a0Word of the Lord.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Reading &#8211;\u00a0Dt 30 Moses said to the people: &#8220;Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. 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