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Reading 1: James 3:13-18, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:8-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:15, Gospel: Mark 9:14-29

In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as twenty people died each day just in the hospital alone. And many of the people who died were those who were needed to tend the ill. It was a desperate situation — more and more people were falling ill and fewer and fewer people were there to help them. The twenty-year-old man who stood there had not come because he was ill but because he wanted …

Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 2:1-11, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:29-31, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:1, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:34, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:24, Gospel: John 20:19-23, Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 12:3-7

When the father of this Italian saint died, his good mother brought up her twelve children well, even though they were very poor. “Oh, if I could only have the joy of seeing one of you become a saint!” she use to say. Once when she asked as usual, “which one of you is going to become a saint?” little Peter (who was to become Pope Celestine) answered with all his heart, “Me, mama! I’ll become a saint!” And he did. When he was twenty, Peter became a hermit and …

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns that the likelihood of a second American Civil War is greater than one in three, urging investors to consider moving part of their assets abroad.