For 24 September 2020, Thursday of week 25 in Ordinary Time, based on Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
What do people gain from all the toil
at which they toil under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains for ever.
The sun rises and the sun goes down,
and hurries to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south,
and goes round to the north;
round and round goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they continue to flow.
All things are wearisome;
more than one can express;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
or the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
‘See, this is new’?
It has already been,
in the ages before us.
The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, 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.
About Honora Werner, O.P.
Honora is a Dominican Sister from Caldwell, NJ. She has been an itinerant preacher for years, doing retreats, parish missions, and other pulpit preaching. She teaches preaching to deacon candidates and lay pastoral ministry students. She serves her congregaton as a member of their leadership team. She has studied history, educaton, music, scripture and theology in her life as a formal student! In ministries, she has taught many from first graders through grad students and elders, been a campus minister, and a co-director of the Parable Conference for Dominican Life and Mission.
24 Sep 2020
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Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
What do people gain from all the toil
at which they toil under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains for ever.
The sun rises and the sun goes down,
and hurries to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south,
and goes round to the north;
round and round goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they continue to flow.
All things are wearisome;
more than one can express;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
or the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
‘See, this is new’?
It has already been,
in the ages before us.
The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, 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.
About Honora Werner, O.P.
Honora is a Dominican Sister from Caldwell, NJ. She has been an itinerant preacher for years, doing retreats, parish missions, and other pulpit preaching. She teaches preaching to deacon candidates and lay pastoral ministry students. She serves her congregaton as a member of their leadership team. She has studied history, educaton, music, scripture and theology in her life as a formal student! In ministries, she has taught many from first graders through grad students and elders, been a campus minister, and a co-director of the Parable Conference for Dominican Life and Mission.