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Readings for the Week
Week of August 31, 2008
| Sunday: |
Jer 20:7-9/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27 |
| Monday: |
1 Cor 2:1-5/Lk 4:16-30 |
| Tuesday: |
1 Cor 2:10b-16/Lk 4:31-37 |
| Wednesday: |
1 Cor 3:1-9/Lk 4:38-44 |
| Thursday: |
1 Cor 3:18-23/Lk 5:1-11 |
| Friday: |
1 Cor 4:1-5/Lk 5:33-39 |
| Saturday: |
1 Cor 4:6b-15/Lk 6:1-5 |
| Next Sunday: |
Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20 |
Saint of the Day - September 6
 Saint Magnus of Füssen
He was a priest, a Benedictine, and a spiritual student of Saint Columban and Saint Gall at Arbon. He became superior of his house following the death of Saint Gall. At the request of the bishop of Augsberg, he evangelized Eptaticus in the eastern part of Algäu. By the River Lech in Bavaria, in a place still known as Sant Mangstritt (footstep of Saint Magnus) he founded the monastery of Füssen. Some extraordinary stories grew around Magnus, often involving animals. In Kempten he dispersed a plague of snakes. At Füssen, he was forced to expel a dragon from the land he needed for the monastery; in one version of the story, he spared an infant dragon who helped
Scripture quotations are from the Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1965, 1966 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
