Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, April 13 2019
Saturday of the Fifth week of Lent
Saturday of the Fifth week of Lent
1. ReadingBook of Ezekiel
37,21-28.]Thus says the Lord GOD: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land.
]I will make them one nation upon the land, in the mountains of Israel, and there shall be one prince for them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms.
]No longer shall they defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all their transgressions. I will deliver them from all their sins of apostasy, and cleanse them so that they may be my people and I may be their God.
]My servant David shall be prince over them, and there shall be one shepherd for them all; they shall live by my statutes and carefully observe my decrees.
]They shall live on the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their fathers lived; they shall live on it forever, they, and their children, and their children's children, with my servant David their prince forever.
]I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will multiply them, and put my sanctuary among them forever.
]My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
]Thus the nations shall know that it is I, the LORD, who make Israel holy, when my sanctuary shall be set up among them forever.
Book of Jeremiah
31,10.11-12ab.13.]Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
Proclaim it on distant isles, and say:
He who scattered Israel, now gathers them together,
He guards them as a shepherd his flock.
]The LORD shall ransom Jacob,
he shall redeem him from the hand of his conqueror.
]Shouting, they shall mount the heights of Zion,
]they shall come streaming to the LORD’s blessings:
]Then the virgins shall make merry and dance,
and young men and old as well.
I will turn their mourning into joy,
I will console and gladden them after their sorrows.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
11,45-56.]Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him.
]But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
]So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.
]If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our land and our nation."
]But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing,
]nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish."
]He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
]and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.
]So from that day on they planned to kill him.
]So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples.
]Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify themselves.
]They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
St. Hermenegild(Martyr († 586))
SAINT HERMENEGILD Martyr ( 586) The Visigothic king Leovigild reigned with his sons, Hermenegild and Recared. When Hermenegild married King Sigebert of France's daughter, he converted to Catholism. Thus, in renouncing Arianism, he sparked a conflict with his family. King Leovigild denounced Hermenegild's conversion, accused him of treason and raised arms against him. Hermenegild appealed to Spanish Catholics, but they were unable to resist the Visigoths. After two years of fruitless struggle, Hermenegild surrendered on the condition of being pardoned. He was instead imprisoned at a dungeon in Seville. Prince Hermenegild was tortured and offered freedom in exchange for renouncing Catholicism. With great love, he declared that he would die for Jesus Christ. At length, on Easter night, an Arian bishop entered his celland promised him full pardon in exchange for receiving Arian communion. Hermenegild declined and was condemned. On the night of his execution, a light streaming from his cell showed the Christians that he had won the martyrs crown and was celebrating Easter with the saints in Heaven. King Leovigild, on his death-bed, bade his remaining son Recared to seek out St. Leander, the one he had persecuted. King Leovigild converted and was baptized by St. Leander. After the king's death, Prince Recared labored zealously for the extirpation of Arianism and won over the whole Visigothic nation to the Catholic Church. "Nor is it to be wondered," says St. Gregory, "that he (Recared) came thus to be a preacher of the true faith, seeing that he was the brother of a martyr, whose merits did help him to bring so many into God's Church."
St. Martin I(Pope and Martyr († 656))
SAINT MARTIN Pope and Martyr ( 656) St. Martin was the pope from 649 to 656. He incurred the enmity of the Byzantine court by opposing the Monothelite heresy. The Byzantine exarch Olympius went so far as to arrange Pope Martin's assassination at the Church of St. Mary Major. Miraculously, the Pope's assassin was struck blind and Olympius relented. Olympius' successor had no such scruples. He seized Pope Martin and conveyed him to Constantinople. After a three-month voyage, they reached the island of Naxos, where Pope Martin was confined for a year. In 654, he was brought to the imperial city in chains. Pope Martin was later banished to the Tannic Chersonese, where he lingered on for four months in sickness and starvation. He was martyred in 656 when death released him from suffering. He was canonized because of his heroic virtues and the miracles proceeding from his intercession.
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