Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, August 14 2018
Tuesday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time
Tuesday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Ezekiel
2,8-10.3,1-4.]The Lord GOD said to me: As for you, son of man, obey me when I speak to you: be not rebellious like this house of rebellion, but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you.
]It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me, in which was a written scroll
]which he unrolled before me. It was covered with writing front and back, and written on it was: Lamentation and wailing and woe!
]He said to me: Son of man, eat what is before you; eat this scroll, then go, speak to the house of Israel.
]So I opened my mouth and he gave me the scroll to eat.
]Son of man, he then said to me, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you. I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. He said:
]Son of man, go now to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
Psalms
119(118),14.24.72.103.111.131.]In the way of your decrees I rejoice,
as much as in all riches.
]Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
]The law of your mouth is to me more precious
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
]How sweet to my palate are your promises,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
]Your decrees are my inheritance forever;
the joy of my heart they are.
]I gasp with open mouth,
in my yearning for your commands.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
18,1-5.10.12-14.]The disciples approached Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
]He called a child over, placed it in their midst,
]and said, "Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
]Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
]And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me.
]See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.
]What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?
]And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
]In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
St. Maximilian Kolbe(Priest and Martyr (1894-1941))
St. Maximilian KolbePriest and Martyr(1894-1941) Raymond Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Zdunska Wola, Poland, during the Russian occupation. The Kolbe home was poor but full of love. His parents, hardworking and religious, educated their three sons and imbued them with rectitude. Around 1906, an event took place that marked a fundamental milestone in his life. His mother related the event a few months after her son's martyrdom. "I knew ahead of time, based on an extraordinary event that took place in his infancy, that Maximilian would die a martyr. I just don't recall if it took place before or after his first confession. Once I did not like one of his pranks and I reproached him for it: 'My son, what ever will become of you?' Later, I did not think of it again, but I noticed that the boy had changed so radically, he was hardly recognizable. We had a small altar hidden between two dressers before which he used to often retire without being noticed and he would pray there crying. In general, he had a conduct superior to his age, always recollected and serious and when he prayed he would burst into tears. I was worried, thinking he had some sort of illness so I asked him: 'Is there anything wrong? You should share everything with your mommy!' Trembling with emotion and with his eyes flooded in tears, he shared: 'Mama, when you reproached me, I pleaded with the Blessed Mother to tell me what would become of me. At Church I did the same; I prayed the same thing again. So then the Blessed Mother appeared to me holding in her hands two crowns: one white the other red. She looked at me with tenderness and asked me if I wanted these two crowns. The white one signified that I would preserve my purity and the red that I would be a martyr. I answered that I accepted them...(both of them). Then the Virgin Mary looked at me with sweetness and disappeared.' The extraordinary change in the boys' behavior testified to me the truth of what he related. He was fully conscious and as he spoke to me, with his face radiating; it showed me his desire to die a martyr." When Raymond was 13, he entered the Franciscan Fathers Seminary in the Polish city of Lvov, which was occupied by Austria. It was in the seminary where he adopted the name Maximilian. He later completed his studies in Rome. Before his ordination as a priest in 1918, he founded the Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady. He spread the movement through a magazine entitled "The Knight of the Immaculata." "We should conquer the universe and each soul, now and in the future until the end of time, for the Immaculata and through her for the Sacred Heart of Jesus" (St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, The Knight of the Immaculata). Fr. Maximilian went to Japan and then to India, where he furthered the Movement. After a few years in Japan, he was summoned back to Poland, largely due to his ever-declining health. Three years later, in the midst of the Second World War, he was imprisoned along with other friars and sent to concentration camps in Germany and Poland. In February of 1941, he was again imprisoned and sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where in spite of the terrible living conditions, he continued his ministry. On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner's escape, ten men were chosen to die. Fr. Maximilian offered himself in place of a young husband and father. He was the last to die after two weeks of starvation, thirst and neglect. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982 as a Martyr of Charity.
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