Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, August 11 2018

Saturday of the Eighteenth week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Eighteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Habakkuk

1,12-17.2,1-4.

]Are you not from eternity, O LORD, my holy God, immortal? O LORD you have marked him for judgment, O Rock, you have readied him for punishment!
]Too pure are your eyes to look upon evil, and the sight of misery you cannot endure. Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence while the wicked man devours one more just than himself?
]You have made man like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler.
]He brings them all up with his hook, he hauls them away with his net, He gathers them in his seine; and so he rejoices and exults.
]Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his seine; For thanks to them his portion is generous, and his repast sumptuous.
]Shall he, then, keep on brandishing his sword to slay peoples without mercy?
]I will stand at my guard post, and station myself upon the rampart, And keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my complaint.
]Then the LORD answered me and said: Write down the vision Clearly upon the tablets, so that one can read it readily.
]For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late.
]The rash man has no integrity; but the just man, because of his faith, shall live.

Psalm

Psalms

9(9A),8-9.10-11.12-13.

]The LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has set up his throne for judgment.
]He judges the world with justice;
he governs the peoples with equity.
]The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of distress.
]They trust in you who cherish your name,
for you forsake not those who seek you, O LORD.
]Sing praise to the LORD enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations his deeds;
]for the avenger of blood has remembered;
he has not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

17,14-20.

]A man approached Jesus, knelt down before him,
]and said, "Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water.
]I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him."
]Jesus said in reply, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me."
]Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured.
]Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not drive it out?"
]He said to them, "Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

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St. Clare(Foundress (1194-1253))

SAINT CLARE Virgin(1194-1253) On Palm Sunday, March 17, 1212, the bishop of Assisi left the altar to present a palm to a noble 18-year-old maiden. St. Clare had learned from St. Francis to spurn the world's vanities and was resolved to live for God alone. She went with one companion to the Church of the Portiuncula and was met by St. Francis and his brethren. At the Altar of Our Lady, St. Francis cut off her hair and clothed her in his habit of penance: a piece of sack-cloth with a cord as a girdle. Thus, she was espoused to Christ. In a rustic house outside Assisi, Clare founded her Order. Her 14-year-old sister joined her and later her mother along with other noble ladies. They walked barefoot, observed perpetual abstinence, constant silence and perfect poverty. When the Saracen army of Frederick II ravaged the valley of Spoleto, some mercenaries attacked St. Clare's convent outside Assisi. St. Clare placed the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance above the monastery gate, and kneeling before it prayed, "Deliver us, O Lord, the souls of those who confess to Thee." A voice from the Host replied, "My protection will never fail you." A sudden panic seized the mercenaries and they took flight, sparing the monastery. The will of God manifested uniquely in St. Clare's life. When bishops and the pope attempted to dissuade her from penances akin to St. Francis', St. Clare resisted and continued governing her order with fidelity. When she was too ill to attend Christmas Mass, the Holy Spirit gave her sight of the Holy Mass from her room. The Order of St. Clare continues leading souls to perfection. St. Clare was born to eternal life in 1253 while the Passion was being read and the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to those present. She was canonized by Pope Alexander IV on September 26, 1255. She was declared the patroness of television by Pope Pius XII in 1958.

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St. Philomena()

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