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A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 12:1-11) The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin once asked rhetorically, “How many divisions has the pope?” Stalin and his Soviet Union are only memories now, and the Church is led by its 267th pope, the successor to Saint Peter whom Jesus chose as the.

A reading from the book of Genesis (Chapter 14:18-20) Melchizedek, identified in this passage as both “king of Salem” and as “priest of God Most High,” is mentioned only twice in the Old Testament—here and in Psalm 110, our Responsorial Psalm today. The context for these verses from the book of.

A reading from the Book of Proverbs (Chapter 8:22-31) This book is a collection—some authorities prefer “an anthology”—of thoughts meant to guide human behavior. “Wisdom,” personified in this book as a woman, was the first thing God created—that is, before God created the physical world we live in..