!catholics !christians happy 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time!
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First Reading
The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said:
Who shut within doors the sea,
when it burst forth from the womb;
when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
When I set limits for it
and fastened the bar of its door,
and said: Thus far shall you come but no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stilled!
-Job 38:1, 8-11
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Responsorial Psalm
R. (1b) Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
They who sailed the sea in ships,
trading on the deep waters,
These saw the works of the LORD
and his wonders in the abyss.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
His command raised up a storm wind
which tossed its waves on high.
They mounted up to heaven; they sank to the depths;
their hearts melted away in their plight.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
They cried to the LORD in their distress;
from their straits he rescued them,
He hushed the storm to a gentle breeze,
and the billows of the sea were stilled.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
They rejoiced that they were calmed,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his kindness
and his wondrous deeds to the children of men.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
-Psalms 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31
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Second Reading
Brothers and sisters:
The love of Christ impels us,
once we have come to the conviction that one died for all;
therefore, all have died.
He indeed died for all,
so that those who live might no longer live for themselves
but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh;
even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know him so no longer.
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation:
the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come.
-2 Corinthians 5:14-17
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Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
A great prophet has risen in our midst
God has visited his people.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
-Luke 7:16
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Gospel
On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples:
“Let us cross to the other side.”
Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was.
And other boats were with him.
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,
so that it was already filling up.
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.
They woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
He woke up,
rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!”
The wind ceased and there was great calm.
Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified?
Do you not yet have faith?”
They were filled with great awe and said to one another,
“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
-Mark 4:35-41
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I like the part of the Gospel where Jesus has wizard moments 
. Job is a very sigma book in general, God does a lot of flexing on the puny mortals.
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You will never be a real Westerner. You have no diversified economy, you have no genteel liberalism, you have no boring centrist democracy. You are just a slav (or Slav-adjacent) twisted by ethnonationalism and cope into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.
All the "validation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back civilised countries mock you. The EU is disgusted and ashamed of you, your "allies" laugh about your cartoonish politics behind closed doors.
Westerners are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed westerners to sniff out Slavs with incredible efficiency. Even Slavs who “develop” look uncanny and depressing to a westerner. Your commieblocks are a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get an investor home with you, he'll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your ancient decaying infrastructure.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll buy some guns, arm a militia, and start another internecine ethnic conflict. The EU will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the debt burden.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
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