Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, August 23 2018

Thursday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Ezekiel

36,23-28.

]Thus says the LORD: I will prove the holiness of my great name, profaned among the nations, in whose midst you have profaned it. Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when in their sight I prove my holiness through you.
]For I will take you away from among the nations, gather you from all the foreign lands, and bring you back to your own land.
]I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
]I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts.
]I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees.
]You shall live in the land I gave your fathers; you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Psalm

Psalms

51(50),12-13.14-15.18-19.

]A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
]Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
]Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
]I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners shall return to you.  
]For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
]My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.  

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

22,1-14.

]Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying,
]“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
]He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.
]A second time he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those invited: "Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast."'
]Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.
]The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
]The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
]Then he said to his servants, 'The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.
]Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.'
]The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests.
]But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
]He said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' But he was reduced to silence.
]Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.'
]Many are invited, but few are chosen."

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St. Rose of Lima(Religious (1586-1617))

SAINT ROSE OF LIMA Religious(1586-1617) St. Rose is the first canonized saint of the New World. She was born in Lima, Peru, and was baptized Isabel. However, the beauty of her features made others nickname her Rose. When she was a baby, her silence during a painful surgical operation showed her uniqueness. She began working at an early age to support her parents; and despite hardships and austerities, her beauty increased. She was openly admired, so she cut off her hair to avoid vanity and blistered her face with pepper and her hands with lime. St. Rose enrolled in the Third Order of St. Dominic and took St. Catherine of Siena as her model. Her cell was a garden hut and her couch was a box of broken tiles. Under her habit, she wore a hair-shirt studded with iron nails. A silver crown armed with ninety points encircled her head, which she concealed with a veil. More than once, when she shuddered at the prospect of a night of hardship, a voice said, "My cross was more painful." The Blessed Sacrament was St. Rose's singular delight. All of her sufferings were offered for the conversion of sinners. She also thought frequently of the multitudes in hell. Shepassed away in 1617 at the age of 31. She is a patroness of the Americas, indigenous persons and those suffering for their faith.

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