Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, August 12 2019

Monday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Deuteronomy

10,12-22.

]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.

Psalm

Psalms

147,12-13.14-15.19-20.

]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

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

17,22-27.

]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."

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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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