{"id":5363,"date":"2025-08-21T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomastheapostlecatholicchurch.com\/wordpress\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:31:21","slug":"twenty-first-sunday-of-ordinary-time-august-24-2025-year-of-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stthomastheapostlecatholicchurch.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/21\/twenty-first-sunday-of-ordinary-time-august-24-2025-year-of-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time  August 24, 2025 Year of the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cYou may count certain others among those able to say to the judge of all, \u2018We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.\u2019 Who again are these? Many have believed in Christ and have celebrated the holy festivals in his honor. Frequenting the churches, they also hear the doctrines of the gospel, but they remember absolutely nothing of the truths of Scripture. With difficulty, they bring with them the practice of virtue, while their heart is quite bare of spiritual fruitfulness. These will also weep bitterly and grind their teeth, because the Lord will also deny them. He said, \u2018Not everyone that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.\u2019\u201d (Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Luke, Homily 99)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stthomastheapostlecatholicchurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Twenty-First-Sunday-of-Ordinary-Time.pdf\">Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou may count certain others among those able to say to the judge of all, \u2018We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets.\u2019 Who again are these? Many have believed in Christ and have celebrated the holy festivals in his honor. 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