Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, April 1 2017

Saturday of the Fourth week of Lent

Saturday of the Fourth week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Jeremiah

11,18-20.

]I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings.
]Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: "Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more."
]But, you, O Lord of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!

Psalm

Psalms

7,2-3.9bc-10.11-12.

]O LORD, my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
]Lest I become like the lion's prey,
to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue me.
]Do me justice, O LORD, because I am just,
]and because of the innocence that is mine.
]Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,
but sustain the just,
O searcher of heart and soul, O just God.
]A shield before me is God,
who saves the upright of heart;
]A just judge is God,
a God who punishes day by day.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

7,40-53.

]Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, "This is truly the Prophet."
]Others said, "This is the Messiah." But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he?
]Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David's family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"
]So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
]Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
]So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
]The guards answered, "Never before has anyone spoken like this one."
]So the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived?
]Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
]But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed."
]Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them,
]Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?
]They answered and said to him, "You are not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."
]Then each went to his own house,

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St. Hugh(Bishop (1053-1132))

SAINT HUGH Bishop (1053-1132) St. Hugh was born in Chateau-neuf, Valence, Dauphiné. His father, Odilo, was an army officer who promoted Christianity and restrained vice through regulations and punishment. He took St. Hugh's advice, became a Carthusian monk and lived to be 100. He and his wife received Extreme Unction and Viaticum from St. Hugh in their last moments. St. Hugh's relied on God's and received many graces during his canonry at the cathedral of Valence. When he was consecrated bishop of Grenoble, he implemented reforms and restrained vice. After two years, he resigned, received the habit of St. Bennet and began a novitiate at the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. He resumed serving as bishop after one year because of Pope Gregory VII. St. Hugh was purified with a lingering illness before passing away on April 1, 1132, two months before his eightieth birthday. He had spent the last 52 years serving as bishop. Miracles attested the sanctity of his happy death. He was canonized by Pope Innocent II in 1134.

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St. Mary of Egypt(Hermit (c. 344-421))

SAINT MARY OF EGYPTHermit(c. 344-421) St. Mary left her father's house at 12 years old and sinned egregiously. For the next 17 years, she lived in Alexandria. Once, she accompanied a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and scandalized many. When St. Mary was in Jerusalem during the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, she was unexplainably held back from entering a church that contained the True Cross. Turning to an image of the Immaculate Mother, she vowed to do penance if she could enter. She entered, knelt by the Cross and received a locution: "Pass over Jordan, and thou shalt find rest." St. Mary overcame many obstacles and moved to Jordan. Forty-seven years later, she met Abbot Zosimus. She received the Eucharist on Holy Thursday in the year 420. She and Abbot Zosimus planned to conduct apostolate the following year, but she passed away beforehand. The Bollandists claim that St. Mary passed away on April 1, 421. The Greek Church celebrates her feast on April 1; the Roman Martyrology on April 2; and the Roman Calendar on April 3.

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