Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, August 12 2018
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1. Reading1st book of Kings
19,4-8.]Elijah went a day's journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: "This is enough, O LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
]He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat.
]He looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again,
]but the angel of the LORD came back a second time, touched him, and ordered, "Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!"
]He got up, ate and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Psalms
34(33),2-3.4-5.6-7.8-9.]I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
]Let my soul glory in the LORD;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
]Glorify the LORD with me,
let us together extol his name.
]I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
]Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
]When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.
]The angel of the LORD encamps
around those who fear him, and delivers them.
]Taste and see how good the LORD is;
blessed the man who takes refuge in him.
Letter to the Ephesians
4,30-32.5,1-2.]Brothers and sisters: Do not grieve the holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption.
]All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice.
](And) be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ.
]So be imitators of God, as beloved children,
]and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
6,41-51.]The Jews murmured about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"
]and they said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"
]Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves.
]No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
]It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
]Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
]Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
]I am the bread of life.
]Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
]this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
]I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
St. Jane Frances de Chantal(Foundress (1572-1641))
SAINT JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL(1572-1641) At the age of 16, Jane Frances de Frémyot was placed under the care of a worldly-minded governess. Seeking refuge, she offered herself to the Mother of God. When a Protestant who was lacking in character sought her hand in marriage, she refused him. Later, she married Baron de Chantal, who gave her the home and the heart of a trully Christian man. Two of Jane's children and a dearly beloved sister died; and in the full tide of prosperity, her husband was accidently killed during a hunting accident. Friends frequently urged her to remarry; but she retired at her father-in-law's estate. On March 19, 1609, she affectionately bade farewell to her family and relations and entered religious life. Alban Butler's translation of Acta Sanctorum says, "Her 15-year-old son used every entreaty and endearment to induce her not to leave; and at last flung himself across the door of the room. In an agony of distress, she passed over him to the embrace of her aged and disconsolate father. She obtained his last blessing and promised to repay his sacrifices with her prayers." Janefounded, together with St. Francis de Sales, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. Its members consisted of women who were rejected by other orders because of their frail health. The order expanded rapidly despite Jane's limited means. The death of children, friends and of St. Francis himself followed - while 87 houses of the Visitation rose. Nine long years of interior desolation completed the work of God's grace; and in Jane's seventieth year, St. Vincent of Paul saw, at the moment of her death, her soul brought to Heaven.
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