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content += '<'+'h2>Thursday 2 September 2010<'+'/h2>\n<'+'h2>Thursday of week 22 o';
content += 'f the year<'+'/h2><'+'h3>First reading<'+'/h3><'+'h4>1 Corinthians 3:18-';
content += '23<'+'/h4><'+'p>Make no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks';
content += ' of himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then';
content += ' he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise. Wh';
content += 'y? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. A';
content += 's scripture says: <'+'i>The Lord knows wise men’s thoughts: he ';
content += 'knows how useless they are;<'+'/i> or again: <'+'i>God is not conv';
content += 'inced by the arguments of the wise.<'+'/i> So there is nothing ';
content += 'to boast about in anything human: Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the';
content += ' world, life and death, the present and the future, are all ';
content += 'your servants; but you belong to Christ and Christ belongs t';
content += 'o God.<'+'/p>\n<'+'h3>Psalm or canticle<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Psalm 23:1-6<'+'/h4><'+'p';
content += '><'+'i>The Grail translation of the Psalms may not appear on th';
content += 'e Web or in RSS feeds. The downloadable versions of Universa';
content += 'lis do contain these psalms.<'+'/i><'+'/p>\n<'+'h3>Gospel<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Luke';
content += ' 5:1-11<'+'/h4><'+'p>Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gen';
content += 'nesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the ';
content += 'word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the ';
content += 'bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing th';
content += 'eir nets. He got into one of the boats – it was Simon’s – an';
content += 'd asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat ';
content += 'down and taught the crowds from the boat.<'+'br>When he had fin';
content += 'ished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water an';
content += 'd pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master,’ Simon replied, ‘';
content += 'we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you';
content += ' say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done th';
content += 'is they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets be';
content += 'gan to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the ot';
content += 'her boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled';
content += ' the two boats to sinking point.<'+'br>When Simon Peter saw thi';
content += 's he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, ‘Leave me, Lord; I a';
content += 'm a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were complete';
content += 'ly overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James a';
content += 'nd John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. But Jes';
content += 'us said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men y';
content += 'ou will catch.’ Then, bringing their boats back to land, the';
content += 'y left everything and followed him.<'+'/p>\n<'+'hr width="20%"><'+'p> ';
content += '<'+'br><'+'a name="jb"> <'+'/a><'+'div>Scripture readings taken from the';
content += ' <'+'i>Jerusalem Bible,<'+'/i> published and copyright © 1966, 196';
content += '7 and 1968 by Darton, Longman &amp; Todd, Ltd and Doubleday,';
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