Monday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Deuteronomy

Moses said to the people: "And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul,
to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?
Think! The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.
Yet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so attached to them as to choose you, their descendants, in preference to all other peoples, as indeed he has now done.
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and be no longer stiff-necked.
For the LORD, your God, is the God of gods, the LORD of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes;
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.
So you too must befriend the alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
The LORD, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve; hold fast to him and swear by his name.
He is your glory, he, your God, who has done for you those great and terrible things which your own eyes have seen.
Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy strong, and now the LORD, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Psalms

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.
He has granted peace in your borders;
with the best of wheat he fills you.
He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

As Jesus and his disciples were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men,
and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day." And they were overwhelmed with grief.
When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?"
Yes, he said. When he came into the house, before he had time to speak, Jesus asked him, "What is your opinion, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or census tax? From their subjects or from foreigners?"
When he said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the subjects are exempt.
But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. Open its mouth and you will find a coin worth twice the temple tax. Give that to them for me and for you."

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 marched upon 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 them from penances akin to St. Francis' ideal, 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 the room where she stayed. 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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