Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, August 27 2019

Tuesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Thessalonians

2,1-8.

]You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our reception among you was not without effect.
]Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated, as you know, in Philippi, we drew courage through our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much struggle.
]Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception.
]But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the gospel, that is how we speak, not as trying to please human beings,but rather God, who judges our hearts.
]Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed--God is witness--
]nor did we seek praise from human beings, either from you or from others,
]although we were able to impose our weight as apostles of Christ. Rather, we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children.
]With such affection for you, we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our very selves as well, so dearly beloved had you become to us.

Psalm

Psalms

139(138),1-3.4-6.

]O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;
]you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
]My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
]Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know the whole of it.
]Behind me and before, you hem me in
and rest your hand upon me.
]Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
too lofty for me to attain.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

23,23-26.

]Jesus said: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. (But) these you should have done, without neglecting the others.
]Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!
]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.
]Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean."

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St. Monica(Layperson (332-387))

SAINT MONICA(332-387) St. Monica was the mother of St. Augustine. After a girlhood of singular innocence and piety, she was given in marriage to Patritius, a pagan. She devoted herself to his conversion, prayed for him always and won his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance. She was rewarded by seeing him baptized a year before his death. When Augustine went astray in faith and manners, St. Monica's prayers and tears were incessant. She was once very urgent with a learned bishop to speak with her son and bring him to a better mind, but the bishop despaired against one so able and headstrong. However, on witnessing St. Monica's prayers and tears, he said, "take courage, for it might not be that the child of those tears should perish." By going to Italy, Augustine freed himself from his mother's importunities, but he could not escape her prayers, which encompassed him like God's providence. She followed him to Italy; and there, by his marvelous conversion, her sorrow was turned into joy. In Ostia, on their homeward journey, as they sat by a window speaking about the life of the blessed, she turned to him and said, "Son ... My one reason was seeing you receive Christ." A few days later, she passed away from fever in 387. St. Augustine went on to become a Doctor of the Church and one of the brightest light of Western Civilization. St. Monica and her son live in Heaven and intercede for the Church. She is the patron saint of alcoholics, abused women and despairing mothers.

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