Monday, December 11, 2023
Liturgical Season: 
VII The Season of Sleebo

1 Thes 4:9-12

Mutual Charity. 9On the subject of mutual charity you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.c 10Indeed, you do this for all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Nevertheless we urge you, brothers, to progress even more,d 11and to aspire to live a tranquil life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your [own] hands, as we instructed you, 12that you may conduct yourselves properly toward outsiders and not depend on anyone.

Lk 19:45-48

The Cleansing of the Temple. 45t Then Jesus entered the temple area* and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things,u 46saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’”v 47And every day he was teaching in the temple area.w The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death,x 48but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.