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Our Morning Offering – 21 September – Exsultet Orbis! Let the World Rejoice!

Our Morning Offering – 21 September – Feast of St Matthew – Apostle and Evangelist Exsultet Orbis!Let the World Rejoice!Unknown Author Now let the earth with joy resound,And Heaven the chant re-echo round;Nor Heaven nor earth too high can raiseThe great Apostles’ glorious praise. O ye who, throned in glory dread,Shall judge the living and the dead,Lights of the world forever more!To you the…

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Our Morning Offering - 21 September - O Matthew, Christ Just Bade You Come

Our Morning Offering – 21 September – O Matthew, Christ Just Bade You Come

Our Morning Offering – 21 September – The Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist O Matthew, ChristJust Bade You Come The glory that surrounds your name,O blessed Levi, is a proofOf God’s all loving clemencyBesides a sign of hope for us. While seated at your counting board,O Matthew, Christ just bade you come,Without a word of all the wealthOf grace He had in store for you. Your heart no…

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Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Saint of the Day – 21 September – Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

One day, as our Lord was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw, sitting at the receipt of custom, Matthew the publican, whose business it was to collect the taxes from the people for their Roman masters.   Jesus said to him, “Follow Me” and leaving all, Matthew arose and followed Him.

Now the publicans were abhorred by…

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One Minute Reflection – 21 September - "Follow me"

One Minute Reflection – 21 September – “Follow me”

One Minute Reflection – 21 September – The Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist- Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:9–13

“Follow me”.. Matthew 9:9

REFLECTIONS – “Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office and he said to him: “Follow me.”   He looked at him not with the eyes of the body but rather with the eye of interior pity.   He saw a tax collector, and since He looked at him in…

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Thought for the Day - 21 September – We can learn much from Matthew.

Thought for the Day – 21 September – We can learn much from Matthew.

Thought for the Day – 21 September – The Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist- Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:9–13

We can learn much from Matthew.

He was a man who knew quite well the power of money.   He knew the comfort it could ensure, the recreation it could buy, the luxury it could provide.   But he was wise enough to know what it could not do.   Money could never give him that sense of…

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Quote/s of the Day - 21 September – The Good News

Quote/s of the Day – 21 September – The Good News

Quote/s of the Day – 21 September – The Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist- Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:9–13

“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 9:11b

“Our Lord chose Matthew, the tax collector, to encourage his fellows to join Him. He looked on sinners, called them and brought them to sit beside Him. What a wonderful sight! Angels stand trembling while…

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Feast of St Matthew and Memorials of the Saints - 21 September

Feast of St Matthew and Memorials of the Saints – 21 September

St Matthew – Apostle and Evangelist (Feast)

About St Matthew here: https://anastpaul.com/2018/09/21/saint-of-the-day-21-september-the-feast-of-st-matthew-apostle-and-evangelist-2/ AND: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/saint-of-the-day-21-september-the-feast-of-st-matthew-apostle-and-evangelist/

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