Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, August 14 2019
Wednesday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Deuteronomy
34,1-12.]Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the headland of Pisgah which faces Jericho, and the LORD showed him all the land-Gilead, and as far as Dan,
]all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,
]the Negeb, the circuit of the Jordan with the lowlands at Jericho, city of palms, and as far as Zoar.
]The LORD then said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that I would give to their descendants. I have let you feast your eyes upon it, but you shall not cross over."
]So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the LORD, died as the LORD had said;
]and he was buried in the ravine opposite Beth-peor in the land of Moab, but to this day no one knows the place of his burial.
]Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.
]For thirty days the Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab, till they had completed the period of grief and mourning for Moses.
]Now Joshua, son of Nun, was filled with the spirit of wisdom, since Moses had laid his hands upon him; and so the Israelites gave him their obedience, thus carrying out the LORD'S command to Moses.
]Since then no prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.
]He had no equal in all the signs and wonders the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh and all his servants and against all his land,
]and for the might and the terrifying power that Moses exhibited in the sight of all Israel.
Psalms
66(65),1-3a.5.8.16-17.]Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
]sing praise to the glory of his name;
proclaim his glorious praise.
]Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
]Come and see the works of God,
his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
]Bless our God, you peoples;
loudly sound his praise,
]Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
]When I appealed to him in words,
praise was on the tip of my tongue.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
18,15-20.]Jesus said to his disciples: "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
]If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
]If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
]Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
]Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.
]For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
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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