Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, April 1 2019

Monday of the Fourth week of Lent

Monday of the Fourth week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

65,17-21.

]Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
]Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;
]I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;
]No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
]They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.

Psalm

Psalms

30(29),2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b.

]I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
]O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
]Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
]For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
]At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
]Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
]You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

4,43-54.

]At that time Jesus left for Galilee.
]For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
]When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
]Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
]When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
]Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
]The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
]Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
]While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
]He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
]The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
](Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

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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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