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David
King of
Israel
(2 Samuel 16
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As David approaches Bahurim, a man named Shimei,
the son of Gera of the same clan as Saul's
family, is coming out of the place, cursing
David as he comes. He throws stones at David and
at all the king's officers.
Shimei curses David for the bloodshed in the
family of Saul, calling him a murderer. Abishai,
son of Zeruiah, becomes irritated that he asks
the king’s permission to lop off Shimei’s head.
But the king tells him and his men to let Shimei
alone. And Shimei continues going abreast on the
hillside with David, cursing
and throwing dirt and stones at David.
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When the king and all the soldiers with him
arrive at the Jordan they stop there for a rest.
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Absalom's Enters Jerusalem
In the meantime Absalom, accompanied by
Ahithophel, enters Jerusalem with all the
Israelites. When David's friend Hushai the
Archite comes to Absalom, he says to him as the
king has planned and declares his loyalty to
Absalom.
Then
Absalom asks counsel from Ahithophel, who
tells Absalom to have relations with the
king’s concubines, whom he left behind to
take care of the palace. Ahithophel
continues that when all Israel hears how
odious he has made himself to the king, all
his partisans will take courage. So Absalom
orders a tent pitched on the roof and he
visits his father's concubines in view of
all Israel.
Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that
time is as though one had sought divine
revelation. Such are all his counsel both to
David and to Absalom.
Ahithophel then says to Absalom to
let him choose twelve thousand men, to
pursue David that night. He tells Absalom
that if he catches David he will panic and
when everyone flees he will kill the king
alone. He says that this way Absalom can
bring back the rest of his people. And since
it is the death of only one man he is
seeking then all the people will be at
peace.
Absalom and to all
the elders of Israel agree, but he calls Hushai
the Archite so they can hear what he has to
say. When he comes, Absalom tells him what
Ahithophel proposed and asks what he thinks
of it.
David's Friends Evade Absalom
Hushai replies to Absalom that this time
Ahithophel has not given good counsel. And
he goes on to say that knowing that David
and his men are fierce warriors he will not
spend the night with the people. Hushai says
that even now he lies hidden in one of the
caves or in some other place. And if some of
Absalom’s soldiers should fall at the first
attack, whoever hears of it will say that
Absalom's followers have been slaughtered.
This will make even the brave man with the
heart of a lion lose courage.
The Hushai
advices Absalom to call up all Israel for
combat; and go with them himself. Then he can
attack David wherever he might be and no one
will survive. Absalom and all the Israelites all
agree that the counsel of Hushai the Archite
is better than that of Ahithophel, for the
LORD has decided to undo Ahithophel's good
counsel, in order thus to bring Absalom to
ruin.
Then Hushai tells the priests Zadok and
Abiathar the counsel that Ahithophel and
then his counsel to Absalom the elders of
Israel. He tells them to send a warning
immediately to David otherwise the king and
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since they cannot not risk being seen
entering the city. They had arrange for a
maidservant to come with information for
them, and they in turn are to go and report
to King David. However, an attendant sees
them and informs Absalom. This forces Jonathan and Ahimaaz to escape
until they reach the house of a man in Bahurim who has a cistern in his courtyard.
They go down the cistern to hide and the
housewife takes the cover and spreads it
over the cistern, spreading ground grain on
the cover so that nothing could be noticed.
When Absalom's
servants come to the woman at the house she
tells them that Ahimaaz and Jonathan had
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while ago toward the water.
They search, but find no one, and so return
to Jerusalem.
As soon as they leave, Ahimaaz and Jonathan
come up out of the cistern and proceed to
inform King David about the plan to attack
them. So immediately David and all his
people cross the Jordan and they all do so
by daybreak.
When Ahithophel sees that his counsel is not
followed, he saddles his ass and departs,
going to his home in his own city. Then,
after leaving orders concerning his family,
he hangs himself. They bury him in his
father's tomb.
After David leaves for Mahanaim Absalom
crosses the Jordan accompanied by all the
Israelites. Absalom had put Amasa in command
of the army in Joab's place. Amasa is the
son of an Ishmaelite named Ithra, who
married Abigail, daughter of Jesse and
sister of Joab's mother Zeruiah. Israel and
Absalom set up camp in the territory of
Gilead.
The
death of Absalom
When David
arrives at Mahanaim, those who are still
loyal to him in the city bring to them
provisions and food, and rest. Afterwards,
David divides his army into three groups. He
places Joab in command of one, Abishai, the
brother of Joab in command of the second and
the third under the command of Ittai, the
Gittite. The king tells his men that he
prefers to go out and fight the battle with
them.
But his generals convince him to stay back
in the city, so he does and stays the gates
when they march to battle. Then within
hearing of the whole army, David commands
Abishai and Ittai to be gentle with young
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David's army then takes the field against
Israel, and fights a battle in the forest
near Mahanaim. The forces of Israel are
defeated by David's servants, and the
casualties there that day are heavy. The
battle spreads out over that entire region,
and the thickets consume more combatants
that day than do the sword.
Absalom, riding a mule, unexpectedly
comes up against David's servants. And as
the mule passes under the branches of a
large terebinth, his hair gets caught fast
in the tree, leaving him hanging alive while
the mule runs off.
Someone sees this and reports to Joab.
However, Joab rebukes the informant for not killing
Absalom on the spot for the reward of fifty
pieces of silver and a belt. But the man
replies that he had heard the king command
Joab, Abishai and Ittai to spare Absalom for
he is his son.
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Nevertheless Joab grabs three spikes and
drives them into Absalom’s heart. Next, ten
of Joab's young armor-bearers close in on
Absalom, and kill him with further blows.
Joab then sounds the horn to order the
soldiers to turn back from the pursuit of
the Israelites.
Then they throw Absalom into a deep pit in
the forest, and erect a very large mound of
stones over him. And all the Israelites flee
to their own tents.
Then Joab
orders a Cushite to run to the king to
report on what had happened. When the
Cushite left, Ahimaaz begs Joab to allow him
to run to the king, too. Joab allows him and
Ahimaaz out-runs the Cushite and passes him.
Ahimaaz arrives first at the gate of the
city where the king is waiting. When the
king asks whether Absalom is safe, Ahimaaz
tells the king that there was a great
disturbance when the Joab sent him on, but
he does not know what it was.
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Cushite arrives at the gate with the
king and Ahimaaz are waiting, he tells
the king that this day the LORD has
freed the king from the grasp of all who
rebelled against him. He then proceeds
to tell him what happened to Absalom.
The news shakes the king turning the
victory into mourning for the whole army
when they hear that the king is grieving
for his son. The soldiers stealthily
return to the city that day like men
shamed by flight in battle.
Then
Joab goes to king and rebukes him
shaming his army after saving the king
from death. Then Joab tells the king to
go out and speak kindly to his servants.
Joab swears that if the king does not,
not a single man will remain with the
king overnight, which will be a far
greater disaster for the king than any
that has afflicted him from his youth
until now. So the king steps out and
sits at
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the gate and all the
people come.
But the now that the Israelites fled to
their separate tents, the tribes of
Israel argue among themselves what to do
now that Absalom is dead, and whether
they should restore the king to his
palace.
David
Returns to Jerusalem
When David
hears this he instructs the priests Zadok and Abiathar to ask the elders of
Judah why they should they be last to
restore the king to his palace. He also
offers Amasa to become his general
permanently in place of Joab.
Thus he wins over all the Judahites as
one man, and so they summon the king to
return, with all his servants. When the
king, on his return, reaches the Jordan,
Judah arrives at Gilgal to meet him and
to escort him across the Jordan.
Shimei, who threw
stones and dirt to David when he fled
Jerusalem hurries down with the
Judahites to meet King David,
accompanied by a thousand men from
Benjamin. Ziba, too, the servant of the
house of Saul, accompanied by his
fifteen sons and twenty servants,
hastens to the Jordan before the king.
Then they help to bring the king's
household over across the ford and to do
whatever he wished.
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When Shimei
crosses the Jordan, he falls down
before the king and begs forgiveness
for what he had done. But Abishai
argues that Shimei must be put to
death for cursing the LORD'S
anointed. But David replies that no
one shall die in Israel that day,
sparing Shimei.
Meribaal, son of
Saul, also comes down to meet the
king. He had not washed his feet nor
trimmed his mustache nor washed his
clothes since the day the king left
Jerusalem until he returned safely.
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betrayed and
slandered him before the king.
Afterwards the king tells Ziba and
Meribaal to divide the property but
Meribaal tells the king that Ziba can
have the property all to himself now
that the king has returned safely to his
palace.
Barzillai the Gileadite also comes down
from Rogelim and escorts the king to the
Jordan for his crossing, taking leave of
him there. It was Barzillai, a very old
man of eighty and very wealthy, who had
provisioned the king during his stay in
Mahanaim. Thus the king invites
Barzillai to come and cross over the
Jordan with him and he will provide for
his old age as the king’s guest in
Jerusalem.
But
Barzillai begs off wishing not to burden
the king in his old age and offers up
his servant Chimham instead. The king
consents and takes Chimham with him,
promising Barzillai that he will take
care of Chimham. Then the king bids
Barzillai Godspeed as he returns to his
own district.
But now all these Israelites begin
complaining to the king and asking why
their brothers the Judahites are
stealing the king away and escorting the
king and his household across the
Jordan, along with all David's men. All
the Judahites reply to the men of Israel
that the king is their relative, and
besides, there is no reason to be angry
since the king did not feed them.
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The leads to
fierce argument between Israel and Judah,
that when one rebellious man from Benjamin
named Sheba instigated for Israel to leave
David, they all do. But from the Jordan to
Jerusalem the Judahites remain loyal to
their king.
When King David arrives at his palace in
Jerusalem, he takes the ten concubines whom
he had left behind to take care of the
palace and places them in confinement, where
they remain until their death.
Joab
Murders Amasa
The king also
instructs Amasa to summon the Judahites for
the king within three days and then come
back. But Amasa is delayed beyond the time
the king specified so he sends Abishai to
pursue Sheba lest he finds fortified cities
and takes shelter there.
So Joab and the Cherethites and Pelethites
and all the warriors march out behind
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of Sheba.
Along the way at the great stone in Gibeon they
meet Amasa. Joab then grabs Amasa’s beard as if
to kiss him in greeting and then stabs him with
the sword hidden under his tunic. Amasa dies
instantly.
They move the
body of Amasa to the field by the road and
proceed to pursue Sheba. Meanwhile Sheba passes
through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth-maacah,
where all the Bichrites assemble and enter the
city with him.
So David’s servants attack the city and they
begin battering the walls to take it down. At
that time a wise woman from the city comes out
to speak to Joab. Then she asks him why he is
beating down a city that is a mother in Israel,
why he wishes to destroy the inheritance of the
LORD. Joab explains that he is after the man
Sheba who is hiding in their city, and not to
destroy it.
The woman then promises to throw the head of
Sheba to him across the wall. Then she goes back
into the city where the inhabitants take her
advice and cut off the head of Sheba. Then they
throw the head of Sheba across the wall to Joab.
Joab and his men return to Jerusalem.
Avenging the
Gibeonites
During David's
reign there comes a famine for three successive
years. David knows this is because there is
bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put
the Gibeonites to death. The Gibeonites are not
Israelites, but survivors of the Amorites. And
although the Israelites had given them their
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So the king
called the Gibeonites and asked them what he
can do to make atonement and he will do
whatever they propose. The Gibeonites answer
that they have no claim against Saul and his
house for silver or gold, but they demand
that seven of the descendents of Saul man
who wanted to exterminate and destroy them
be given to them so that they may dismember
them before the LORD in Gibeon, on the
LORD'S mountain.
So David rounds up seven of Saul’s
descendants but he spared Meribbaal, son of
Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the LORD'S
oath between David and Jonathan. They are
killed and dismembered before the LORD by
the Gibeonites during the beginning of the
barley harvest.
Then Rizpah, one of the mothers of those who
were killed, goes to where the bodies of the
descendants of Saul are spread out to fend
off the birds of the sky from settling on
them by day, and the wild animals by night.
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When David hears
what Rizpah had done he gathers up the bones of
Saul and those who had been
dismembered and buries them in the tomb of his
father Kish at Zela in the territory of
Benjamin. After this God grants relief to the land.
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follow battles between the Philistines and
giant men of Gath and David where he fights
with his army. In all these David vanquishes
them.
Then
David sings song of praise to the LORD. In
this song David retells the perils he was
in, how the LORD intervened in his behalf,
and acknowledges God’s justice. Then the
song praises God for preparing David for war
and rescuing him from the grasp of all his
enemies and from the hands of Saul.
Then David recounts the stories of the brave
men who fought for the LORD, in all
numbering thirty seven, of whom there were
three exceptional warriors.
The first of
whom that David sings about is Ishabaal who
brandished his battle-ax over eight hundred
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slain in a
single encounter. Then there is Eleazar who was with David at Ephes-dammim
when the Philistines assembled there for
battle. The Israelites had retreated, but
he stood his ground and fought the Philistines
until his hand grew tired and became cramped,
holding fast to the sword. The LORD brought
about a great victory on that day; the soldiers
turned back after Eleazar, but only to strip the
slain.
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Then David retells
the story of Shammah. The Philistines had
assembled at Lehi, where there was a plot of
land full of lentils. When the soldiers fled
from the Philistines, he took his stand in the
middle of the plot and defended it. He slew the
Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great
victory.
Then David sings
of the three of the Thirty who went to the
cistern by the gate of Bethlehem just to
satisfy his craving for its water. After the
three risked their lives to break through
the Philistine camp, David refused to drink
the water because the LORD forbade him.
Then he
sings of Joab, the brother of Abishai who
was the leader of the Thirty. It was he who
brandished his spear over three hundred
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The LORD'S
anger against Israel flares again, and
he incites David against the Israelites
by prompting him to number Israel and
Judah. Accordingly the king orders Joab
and the leaders of the army who are with
him to go through all the tribes in
Israel and register them. Joab at first
questions the king’s order but
eventually the king overrules him. Then
he and his officers go through all the
tribes of Israel and count them,
completing the task in nine months and
ninety days.
Then Joab
reports to the king the number of people
registered, however, afterwards David
regrets having numbered the people, and
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Then the LORD
speaks to the prophet of Gad to tell David to
choose from three punishments that He will
inflict it on David. The prophet of Gad tells
David to choose from three years' famine to come
upon his land, or to flee from his enemy three
months while he pursues him, or to have a three
days' pestilence in his land.
David answers
that he does not want to fall by the hand of
man, so he chooses the pestilence. However, the
plague broke out among the people at the time of
the wheat harvest for the appointed time and
seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba
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However, when the
angel stretches forth his hand toward
Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regrets
the calamity and orders the angel, then
standing at the threshing floor of Araunah
the Jebusite, causing the destruction among
the people to stay his hand.
When David sees the angel who is striking
the people, he says to the LORD to strike
him and his kindred, instead and spare his
people since it was him who sinned and not
them.
On the same day the prophet of Gad goes to
David and tells him to go up and build an altar to the LORD
on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
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does the LORD
ordered.
When Araunah
sees the king and his servants coming toward him
while he was threshing wheat, he goes to meet
them and pays homage to the king, with face to
the ground. Then Araunah asks why the king has
come. David replies he wants to buy the
threshing floor from him, to build an altar to
the LORD, that the plague may be checked among
the people.
But Araunah says
to David to take whatever he needs as an
offering to the king. The king, however, insists
to pay for it, for he cannot offer to the LORD
holocausts that cost nothing. So David buys the
threshing floor and the oxen for fifty silver
shekels.
Then David builds
an altar there to the LORD, and offers
holocausts and peace offerings. The LORD grants
relief to the country, and the plague stops.
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For further
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I & II Samuel: A Commentary (Old Testament
Library)
First sentence in
the book:
""THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL contain that
part of the history of Israel which describes
the foundation of the State, running from the
close of the period of the Judges to the
establishment of the united kingdom." |
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The Sunday Readings |
July 22,
2007: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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The LORD appeared to
Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre, as he sat in
the entrance of his tent, while the day was
growing hot. Looking up, Abraham saw three men
standing nearby.
When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the
tent to greet them; and bowing to the ground, he
said:
“Sir, if I may ask you this favor, please do not
go on past your servant. Let some water be
brought, that you may bathe your feet, and then
rest yourselves under the tree. Now that you have
come this close to your servant, let me bring you
a little food, that you may refresh yourselves;
and afterward you may go on your way.”
The men replied,
“Very well, do as you have said.”
Abraham hastened into the tent and told Sarah,
“Quick, three measures of fine flour! Knead it and
make rolls.”
He ran to the
herd, picked out a tender, choice steer, and gave
it to a servant, who quickly prepared it. Then
Abraham got some curds and milk, as well as the
steer that had been prepared, and set these before
the three men; and he waited on them under the
tree while they ate.
They asked Abraham, “Where is your wife Sarah?”
He replied,
“There in the tent.”
One of them said,
“I will surely return to you about this time next
year, and Sarah will then have a son.” |
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Responsorial From the Book of Psalms:
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R. He who
does justice will live in the presence of
the Lord.
One who walks blamelessly and does justice;
who thinks the truth in his heart
and slanders not with his tongue.
R. He who does justice will live in the
presence of the Lord.
Who harms not his fellow man,
nor takes up a reproach against his
neighbor;
by whom the reprobate is despised,
while he honors those who fear the LORD.
R. He who does justice will live in the
presence of the Lord.
Who lends not his money at usury
and accepts no bribe against the innocent.
One who does these things
shall never be disturbed.
R. He who does justice will live in the
presence of the Lord.
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Second Reading from
the Letter to the Colossians |
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Col 1:24-28 |
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Brothers and
sisters:
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and
in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the
afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which
is the church, of which I am a minister
in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me
to bring to completion for you the word of God,
the mystery hidden from ages and from generations
past.But
now it has been manifested to his holy ones, to
whom God chose to make known the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is
Christ in you, the hope for glory.
It is he whom we
proclaim, admonishing everyone and teaching
everyone with all wisdom, that we may present
everyone perfect in Christ. |
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Reading From
the Gospel of Luke:
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Jesus entered a
village where a woman whose name was Martha
welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat
beside the Lord at his feet listening to him
speak.
Martha, burdened
with much serving, came to him and said,
“Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me
by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.”
The Lord said to her
in reply,
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about
many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary
has chosen the better part and it will not be
taken from her.” |
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References |
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I & II Samuel: A Commentary (Old Testament Library)
First sentence in
the book:
""THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL contain that
part of the history of Israel which describes
the foundation of the State, running from the
close of the period of the Judges to the
establishment of the united kingdom." |
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Read more about the Liturgical Year |
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The Origins of the Liturgical Year (Pueblo
Books)
by
Thomas J. Talley (Author) The Rev. Dr.
Thomas J. Talley, Professor of Liturgics
at the General Theological Seminary in New
York, is one of the leading liturgists in
the country. He gives us a fresh
examination of the complex history of the
Liturgical Year. |
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The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday, Cycle C. (Bestseller! the Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday)
by
John J. Pilch (Author)
Reader
Review: The book by Pilch provides
those who not only fill the pulpits across
this country but also all interested in
the cultural world in which Jesus lived
with a lot of pertinent information that
sheds light on a lot of areas that have
been "muddled" in the past. Yes, I highly
recommend this book. - James Mauldin |
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Learn more and read the Old Testament. |
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Preaching from the Old Testament
by Elizabeth Achtemeier (Author) Reader
Review: The author of these
thirty-two short chapters begins and ends
with the assumption that problems we
experience with the Old Testament are our
problem, not the Bible's. This
subordinating of the Bible reader to the
well-weathered book he holds in his hand
opens doors, not to forced harmonisations
of problematic passages, but to fresh
reappraisal of difficult texts on their
own terms. -
David A. Baer |
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The Navarre Bible: Pentateuch (The Navarre Bible: Old Testament)
This volume helps you make the first five
books of the Old Testament a vital part of
your spiritual reading and practical
growth in the Christian life. It contains
the full English and Latin texts of these
books, along with extensive and faithfully
Catholic commentaries. Like other volumes
in the world-renowned Navarre Bible
series, these commentaries draw on Church
documents, the exegesis of Fathers and
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Doctors of the Church, and the works of contemporary
spiritual writers — particularly St. Josemaría
Escrivá, who initiated the Navarre Bible
project. |
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Omega-3 |
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What We Need to Know |
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(From my doctor's
pamphlet) |
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What are Omega-3 Fats?
Consider omega-3 fats one of the good, or healthy,
fats. Omega-3 fats are found in two sizes and
types. The long omega-3 fats are eicosapentaenoic
acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which
are found mostly in oily fish.
The short omega-3
fats are alphalinolenic acid (LNA) and are found
mostly in plant-based foods, such as soy products,
canola oil and flaxseeds. The plant-based sources
of omega-3 fats don’t have as much impact on heart
health as the ones in oily fish, but are still
worth eating.
How Do Omega-3
Fats Keep Our Heart Healthy?
Experts don’t completely know how omega-3 fats
work. However, the American Heart Association
(AHA) believes that there is now enough research
to recommend that some people who have heart
disease and others who are at risk for heart
disease get more omega-3 fats.
How Much Omega-3 Fat Should I Get?
The amount of omega-3 fats you should get depends
on your age, situation in life (extra caution
should be taken with children and women who are
pregnant and breast feeding because of the
possible extra mercury they may get from eating
more fish) and your risk for or presence of heart
Common Sources of
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- Salmon in all
its forms: fresh, smoked, pickled and canned
(cooked wild Atlantic = 1,850 mg)
- Mackerel
(Atlantic, cooked = 1,100 mg)
- Lake trout
- Albacore tuna
(white canned in water = 730 mg)
- Herring
(pickled = 414 mg)
- Anchovies
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Benefits of Omega-3 |
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- Decrease the
incidence of an irregular heart beat, which can
lead to sudden death from a heart attack or
stroke.
- Prevent blood
clots from forming and prevent these blood clots
from sticking to artery walls. This helps
prevent heart attack and stroke.
- Decrease
triglyceride levels in people whose levels are
elevated.
- Reduce buildup
of plaque on artery walls, which slows down the
narrowing of the heart’s arteries.
- improve health
of arteries
- lower blood
pressure slightly
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Recipes |
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Israeli
Cheese with Green Olives |
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SERVES FOUR
Ingredients
6 - 7 oz soft white (farmer’s) cheese
2 1/2 oz feta cheese, preferably sheep’s milk, lightly
crumbled
20—30 pitted green olives, some chopped, the rest
halved or quartered
2—3 large pinches of fresh thyme, plus extra to
garnish
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Fettuccine Alfredo |
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SERVES FOUR
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1 cup heavy cream
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus
extra to serve
12 oz fresh fettuccine (any long ribbon-like
pasta)
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Baked Custard with
Burnt Sugar (or Crème Brolée) |
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SERVES SIX
Ingredients
4 cups double (heavy) cream
6 egg yolks
1/2 cup vanilla sugar
1/3 cup soft light brown sugar
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You can buy
vanilla sugar or make your own by placing a
split vanilla pod (bean) in a jar of
caster(superfine) sugar—the sugar will be
ready to use after a couple of days.
Make the custard a day before you wish to
eat them and chill overnight, so that they
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