Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, August 1 2019

Thursday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Exodus

40,16-21.34-38.

]Moses did exactly as the LORD had commanded him.
]On the first day of the first month of the second year the Dwelling was erected.
]It was Moses who erected the Dwelling. He placed its pedestals, set up its boards, put in its bars, and set up its columns.
]He spread the tent over the Dwelling and put the covering on top of the tent, as the LORD had commanded him.
]He took the commandments and put them in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the propitiatory upon it.
]He brought the ark into the Dwelling and hung the curtain veil, thus screening off the ark of the commandments, as the LORD had commanded him.
]Then the cloud covered the meeting tent, and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
]Moses could not enter the meeting tent, because the cloud settled down upon it and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
]Whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling, the Israelites would set out on their journey.
]But if the cloud did not lift, they would not go forward; only when it lifted did they go forward.
]In the daytime the cloud of the LORD was seen over the Dwelling; whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud by the whole house of Israel in all the stages of their journey.

Psalm

Psalms

84(83),3.4.5-6a.8a.11.

]My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
]Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young?
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
]Blessed are they who dwell in your house!
Continually they praise you.
]Blessed the men whose strength you are!
]They go from strength to strength.
]I had rather one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I had rather lie at the threshold of the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

13,47-53.

]Jesus said to the disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind.
]When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away.
]Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
]and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
]Do you understand all these things? They answered, "Yes."
]And he replied, "Then every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old."
]When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.

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St. Alphonsus Liguori(Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1696-1787))

SAINT ALPHONSUS MARY DE LIGUORI Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1696-1787) St. Alphonsus was from an aristocratic family in Naples. His spiritual formation was entrusted to the Fathers of the Oratory and he was known as a devout Brother of the Little Oratory. At 16 years old, he was awarded a doctorate in law and embarked on a successful career. After losing an important case, Alphonsus was struck by his own vanity and how God's glory was beyond compare. He entered the priesthood, devoted himself to neglected souls and founded the missionary Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. The Congregation operates one of the largest publishing houses in America. At the age of 66, Fr. Alphonsus was consecrated bishop and zealously reformed the Diocese of St. Agatha. He vowed to never spend time idly. Besides prayer and work, he authored a vast number of spiritual and scientific books. His works on moral theology merited his title Doctor of the Church in 1871. St. Alphonsus wrote his first book at the age of 49. By age 83, he had published about sixty volumes and his director forbade him from writing more. Many of his books were written in the half-hours spent as a missionary, religious superior and bishop. He held a piece of marble against his aching head with his left hand and wrote with his right. St. Alphonsus counted no time wasted that was spent in charity. He never refused to dialogue with a simple soldier who asked his advice or to play the harpsichord while teaching his novices to sing spiritual canticles. During his last seven years, constant sickness prevented him from offering the Eucharist. Nonetheless, he received Holy Communion daily. He loved Jesus Christ and Mother Mary and opened his eyes to them in eternity.

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