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content += '<'+'h2>Sunday 29 August 2010<'+'/h2>\n<'+'h2>22nd Sunday of the year<'+'/';
content += 'h2><'+'h3>First reading<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Ecclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31<'+'/h';
content += '4><'+'p>My son, be gentle in carrying out your business,<'+'br> an';
content += 'd you will be better loved than a lavish giver.<'+'br>The great';
content += 'er you are, the more you should behave humbly,<'+'br> and then ';
content += 'you will find favour with the Lord;<'+'br>for great though the ';
content += 'power of the Lord is,<'+'br> he accepts the homage of the humbl';
content += 'e.<'+'br>There is no cure for the proud man’s malady,<'+'br> since';
content += ' an evil growth has taken root in him.<'+'br>The heart of a sen';
content += 'sible man will reflect on parables,<'+'br> an attentive ear is ';
content += 'the sage’s dream.<'+'/p>\n<'+'h3>Psalm or canticle<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Psalm 67';
content += ':4-7,10-11<'+'/h4><'+'p><'+'i>The Grail translation of the Psalms may';
content += ' not appear on the Web or in RSS feeds. The downloadable ver';
content += 'sions of Universalis do contain these psalms.<'+'/i><'+'/p>\n<'+'h3>Se';
content += 'cond reading<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Hebrews 12:18-19,22-24<'+'/h4><'+'p>What you ';
content += 'have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing f';
content += 'ire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or tr';
content += 'umpeting thunder or the great voice speaking which made ever';
content += 'yone that heard it beg that no more should be said to them. ';
content += 'But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the ';
content += 'living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of ang';
content += 'els have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in';
content += ' which everyone is a ‘first-born son’ and a citizen of heave';
content += 'n. You have come to God himself, the supreme Judge, and been';
content += ' placed with spirits of the saints who have been made perfec';
content += 't; and to Jesus, the mediator who brings a new covenant and ';
content += 'a blood for purification which pleads more insistently than ';
content += 'Abel’s.<'+'/p>\n<'+'h3>Gospel<'+'/h3><'+'h4>Luke 14:1,7-14<'+'/h4><'+'p>On a sa';
content += 'bbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of t';
content += 'he leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then ';
content += 'told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they p';
content += 'icked the places of honour. He said this, ‘When someone invi';
content += 'tes you to a wedding feast, do not take your seat in the pla';
content += 'ce of honour. A more distinguished person than you may have ';
content += 'been invited, and the person who invited you both may come a';
content += 'nd say, “Give up your place to this man.” And then, to your ';
content += 'embarrassment, you would have to go and take the lowest plac';
content += 'e. No; when you are a guest, make your way to the lowest pla';
content += 'ce and sit there, so that, when your host comes, he may say,';
content += ' “My friend, move up higher.” In that way, everyone with you';
content += ' at the table will see you honoured. For everyone who exalts';
content += ' himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself wi';
content += 'll be exalted.’<'+'br>Then he said to his host, ‘When you give ';
content += 'a lunch or a dinner, do not ask your friends, brothers, rela';
content += 'tions or rich neighbours, for fear they repay your courtesy ';
content += 'by inviting you in return. No; when you have a party, invite';
content += ' the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; that they cann';
content += 'ot pay you back means that you are fortunate, because repaym';
content += 'ent will be made to you when the virtuous rise again.’<'+'/p>\n<'+'';
content += 'hr width="20%"><'+'p> <'+'br><'+'a name="jb"> <'+'/a><'+'div>Scripture read';
content += 'ings taken from the <'+'i>Jerusalem Bible,<'+'/i> published and co';
content += 'pyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman &amp; Todd,';
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