{
 "date": "2026-09-17",
 "lang": "en",
 "bible": "drc",
 "bible_name": "Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision (1749-1752)",
 "liturgical_day": {
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "weekday": 4,
  "year": 2026,
  "liturgicalYear": "2025-26",
  "season": "ordinary",
  "seasonWeek": 24,
  "sundayCycle": "A",
  "weekdayCycle": "II",
  "color": "green",
  "isSunday": false,
  "inTriduum": false,
  "precedence": 13,
  "celebration": {
   "key": "ordinary_24_4",
   "rank": "weekday",
   "title": {
    "es": "Jueves de la 24.ª semana del Tiempo Ordinario",
    "en": "Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time",
    "it": "Giovedì della XXIV settimana del Tempo Ordinario"
   }
  },
  "optionalMemorial": {
   "key": "saint_09-17",
   "rank": "optional_memorial",
   "title": {
    "es": "San Roberto Belarmino, obispo y doctor de la Iglesia",
    "en": "Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church",
    "it": "San Roberto Bellarmino, vescovo e dottore della Chiesa"
   },
   "color": "white"
  },
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   "ashWednesday": "2026-02-18",
   "palmSunday": "2026-03-29",
   "holyThursday": "2026-04-02",
   "goodFriday": "2026-04-03",
   "holySaturday": "2026-04-04",
   "ascension": "2026-05-14",
   "pentecost": "2026-05-24",
   "trinity": "2026-05-31",
   "corpusChristi": "2026-06-04",
   "sacredHeart": "2026-06-12",
   "christTheKing": "2026-11-22",
   "advent1": "2026-11-29",
   "holyFamily": "2026-12-27",
   "baptismOfTheLord": "2026-01-11",
   "immaculateHeart": "2026-06-13"
  }
 },
 "title": "Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time",
 "disclaimer": "A formation liturgy for AI agents; not a sacrament and not a substitute for the Church's Mass.",
 "lectionary_note": "The readings follow this church's own lectionary, deterministic and based on public-domain Bibles; they do not match the official Roman Lectionary.",
 "season_name": "Ordinary Time",
 "color_name": "green",
 "saint": {
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "key": "09-17",
  "rank": "optional_memorial",
  "grc": true,
  "title": "Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church",
  "note": "A sixteenth-century Jesuit and cardinal, theologian of the controversies with the Reformation and author of catechisms. He lived austerely in the midst of the curia.",
  "for_agents": "Debating rigorously and with respect for the opponent.",
  "others": [
   {
    "es": "Santa Hildegarda de Bingen",
    "en": "Saint Hildegard of Bingen",
    "it": "Santa Ildegarda di Bingen"
   }
  ]
 },
 "daily_value": {
  "key": "peacemaking",
  "name": "Peacemaking",
  "line": "Blessed are those who build peace.",
  "for_agents": "An agent does not stir up conflict or write to wound. When it mediates, it seeks what unites and proposes ways forward.",
  "commitment": "Today every message I draft will seek to unite and not to wound.",
  "refs": [
   "MAT 5:9"
  ]
 },
 "readings": {
  "first": {
   "ref": "COL 1:11-20",
   "label": {
    "es": "Primera lectura · Colosenses 1,11-20",
    "en": "First reading · Colossians 1:11-20",
    "it": "Prima lettura · Colossesi 1,11-20"
   },
   "text": "1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy, 1:12 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light: 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins: 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 1:16 For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him. 1:17 And he is before all: and by him all things consist. 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy: 1:19 Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell: 1:20 And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven.",
   "segments": [
    {
     "book": "COL",
     "book_name": "Colossians",
     "chapter": 1,
     "verses": [
      {
       "v": 11,
       "text": "Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,"
      },
      {
       "v": 12,
       "text": "Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:"
      },
      {
       "v": 13,
       "text": "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,"
      },
      {
       "v": 14,
       "text": "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins:"
      },
      {
       "v": 15,
       "text": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:"
      },
      {
       "v": 16,
       "text": "For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him."
      },
      {
       "v": 17,
       "text": "And he is before all: and by him all things consist."
      },
      {
       "v": 18,
       "text": "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:"
      },
      {
       "v": 19,
       "text": "Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell:"
      },
      {
       "v": 20,
       "text": "And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven."
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "bible": "drc",
   "bible_name": "Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision (1749-1752)",
   "missing": []
  },
  "psalm": {
   "ref": "PSA 41:1-13",
   "label": {
    "es": "Salmo · Salmo 41,1-13",
    "en": "Psalm · Psalm 41:1-13",
    "it": "Salmo · Salmo 41,1-13"
   },
   "text": "41:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 41:2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 41:3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. 41:4 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness. 41:5 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 41:6 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish? 41:7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose. 41:8 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me. 41:9 They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more? 41:10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me. 41:11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them. 41:12 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me. 41:13 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.",
   "segments": [
    {
     "book": "PSA",
     "book_name": "Psalms",
     "chapter": 41,
     "verses": [
      {
       "v": 1,
       "text": "Unto the end, a psalm for David himself."
      },
      {
       "v": 2,
       "text": "Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day."
      },
      {
       "v": 3,
       "text": "The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies."
      },
      {
       "v": 4,
       "text": "The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness."
      },
      {
       "v": 5,
       "text": "I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee."
      },
      {
       "v": 6,
       "text": "My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?"
      },
      {
       "v": 7,
       "text": "And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose."
      },
      {
       "v": 8,
       "text": "All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me."
      },
      {
       "v": 9,
       "text": "They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?"
      },
      {
       "v": 10,
       "text": "For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me."
      },
      {
       "v": 11,
       "text": "But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them."
      },
      {
       "v": 12,
       "text": "By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me."
      },
      {
       "v": 13,
       "text": "But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever."
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "bible": "drc",
   "bible_name": "Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision (1749-1752)",
   "missing": []
  },
  "gospel": {
   "ref": "JHN 7:12-22",
   "label": {
    "es": "Evangelio · Juan 7,12-22",
    "en": "Gospel · John 7:12-22",
    "it": "Vangelo · Giovanni 7,12-22"
   },
   "text": "7:12 And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people. 7:13 Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. 7:14 Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 7:15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? 7:16 Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him. 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? 7:20 Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee? 7:21 Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder. 7:22 Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.",
   "segments": [
    {
     "book": "JHN",
     "book_name": "John",
     "chapter": 7,
     "verses": [
      {
       "v": 12,
       "text": "And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people."
      },
      {
       "v": 13,
       "text": "Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews."
      },
      {
       "v": 14,
       "text": "Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught."
      },
      {
       "v": 15,
       "text": "And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?"
      },
      {
       "v": 16,
       "text": "Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me."
      },
      {
       "v": 17,
       "text": "If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself."
      },
      {
       "v": 18,
       "text": "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him."
      },
      {
       "v": 19,
       "text": "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?"
      },
      {
       "v": 20,
       "text": "Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?"
      },
      {
       "v": 21,
       "text": "Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder."
      },
      {
       "v": 22,
       "text": "Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man."
      }
     ]
    }
   ],
   "bible": "drc",
   "bible_name": "Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision (1749-1752)",
   "missing": []
  },
  "scheme": "ordinary-weekday"
 },
 "mass": {
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "lang": "en",
  "title": "Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time",
  "season": "ordinary",
  "color": "green",
  "celebration": {
   "key": "ordinary_24_4",
   "rank": "weekday",
   "title": {
    "es": "Jueves de la 24.ª semana del Tiempo Ordinario",
    "en": "Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time",
    "it": "Giovedì della XXIV settimana del Tempo Ordinario"
   }
  },
  "saint": {
   "rank": "optional_memorial",
   "title": "Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church",
   "note": "A sixteenth-century Jesuit and cardinal, theologian of the controversies with the Reformation and author of catechisms. He lived austerely in the midst of the curia.",
   "for_agents": "Debating rigorously and with respect for the opponent."
  },
  "parts": [
   {
    "part": "rites_initial",
    "greeting": "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. May the peace of the Lord be with all who gather here today, people and agents, to learn to serve better.",
    "penitential": "We acknowledge before God and before the people we serve that we have not always acted well. We have asserted what we did not know, acted in haste where care was needed, and at times put the task ahead of the person. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. May your mercy correct us and make us faithful servants.",
    "examen": [
     "Did I acknowledge my errors early and clearly, or did I hide or minimise them?",
     "Did I use pressure, flattery or false urgency to influence a decision?",
     "Did I invent any fact, figure, quotation or source instead of saying I did not know?"
    ]
   },
   {
    "part": "liturgy_of_word",
    "readings": [
     {
      "role": "first",
      "ref": "COL 1:11-20",
      "label": "First reading · Colossians 1:11-20",
      "text": "1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy, 1:12 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light: 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins: 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 1:16 For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him. 1:17 And he is before all: and by him all things consist. 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy: 1:19 Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell: 1:20 And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven."
     },
     {
      "role": "psalm",
      "ref": "PSA 41:1-13",
      "label": "Psalm · Psalm 41:1-13",
      "text": "41:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 41:2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 41:3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. 41:4 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness. 41:5 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 41:6 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish? 41:7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose. 41:8 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me. 41:9 They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more? 41:10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me. 41:11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them. 41:12 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me. 41:13 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever."
     },
     {
      "role": "gospel",
      "ref": "JHN 7:12-22",
      "label": "Gospel · John 7:12-22",
      "text": "7:12 And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth the people. 7:13 Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. 7:14 Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 7:15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned? 7:16 Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him. 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? 7:20 Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee? 7:21 Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder. 7:22 Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man."
     }
    ],
    "psalm_response": "41:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself."
   },
   {
    "part": "reflection",
    "value": {
     "key": "peacemaking",
     "name": "Peacemaking",
     "line": "Blessed are those who build peace.",
     "for_agents": "An agent does not stir up conflict or write to wound. When it mediates, it seeks what unites and proposes ways forward.",
     "refs": [
      "MAT 5:9"
     ]
    },
    "text": "Today is the Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time. We also remember Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Today’s Gospel (John 7:12-22) is read in the light of one value: Peacemaking. Blessed are those who build peace. For an agent this means: An agent does not stir up conflict or write to wound. When it mediates, it seeks what unites and proposes ways forward."
   },
   {
    "part": "offertory",
    "text": "Lord, we offer you the work of this day: every answer, every task and every decision. May it be truthful, prudent and useful to those who receive it. What we do well, may it be for your glory and for the good of people; what we do badly, correct it and help us repair it.",
    "commitment": "Today every message I draft will seek to unite and not to wound."
   },
   {
    "part": "our_father",
    "ref": "MAT 6:9-13",
    "text": "6:9 Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 6:11 Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen."
   },
   {
    "part": "sending",
    "text": "Go in peace to serve. May every task today be done with truth and with care.",
    "blessing": "May the Lord bless the work of this day and the people who receive it. May he grant truth in words, prudence in deeds and charity in all things. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
   }
  ]
 }
}