Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, August 25 2016

Thursday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Corinthians

1,1-9.

]Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
]to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
]Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
]I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus,
]that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge,
]as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you,
]so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
]He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus (Christ).
]God is faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Psalm

Psalms

145(144),2-3.4-5.6-7.

]Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
]Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable.
]Generation after generation praises your works
and proclaims your might.
]They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty
and tell of your wondrous works.
]They discourse of the power of your terrible deeds
and declare your greatness.
]They publish the fame of your abundant goodness
and joyfully sing of your justice.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

24,42-51.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
]Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.
]So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
]Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
]Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
]Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
]But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is long delayed,'
]and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards,
]the servant's master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
]and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

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St. Louis(King of France (1215-1270))

SAINT LOUIS King of France(1215-1270) At 12 years old, Saint Louis became the king of France. His mother once told him that she would rather see him die than commit a mortal sin. In less than 2 years, he suppressed Albigensian heretics and forced them to respect the Catholic faith. This episode may have motivated him to pass a law that required blasphemers to be branded on the lips. When his courtiers remonstrated with him, he replied that he would willingly have his own lips branded to root out blasphemy. Amidst the cares of government, he recited the Liturgy of the Hours and heard two Masses daily. King Louis was chosen to arbitrate in the great feuds of his day: between the Pope and the Emperor and between Henry III and the English barons. Like his predecessor Charles Martel, King Louis fought to repel Islamic invasion. Before the first crusade 1095, Islamic armies had invaded Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Sicily, Turkey, Armenia and Italy. In 1248, King Louis moved to liberate Jerusalem. During the conflict, he proved himself the truest of Christian knights: receiving both victory and defeat, remaining pious in sickness and captivity. While King Louis was held captive in Damietta, an Emir rushed into his tent brandishing a dagger. The Emir threatened to stab him unless he conferred knighthood as Emperor Frederick had done with Facardin. King Louis calmly replied that no unbeliever could perform the duties of a Christian knight. When offered freedom in exchange for blaspheming and to spare Christians, he refused. The death of King Louis' mother recalled him to France. When order was restored, he embarked on a second crusade. In August 1270, his army landed in Tunis and was victorious. However, he succumbed to a malignant fever. He received the Viaticum kneeling by his camp-bed and gave up his soul to God. Two grand Gothic churches honoring Jesus Christ were built in Paris, France thanks to him: Sainte-Chapelle and the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

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