Second Letter to the Thessalonians

We ask you, brothers and sisters, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him,
not to be shaken out of your minds suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a "spirit," or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from us to the effect that the day of the Lord is at hand.
Let no one deceive you in any way.
To this end he has (also) called you through our gospel to possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.

Psalms

Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He has made the world firm, not to be moved;
He governs the peoples with equity.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
Let the plains be joyful and all that is in them!
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.
The LORD comes,
he comes to rule the earth.
He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

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."

St. Monica(Layperson (332-387))

SAINT MONICA(332-387) St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, was born in 332. 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, her 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." She passed away from fever a few days later in 387. St. Augustine went on to become a Doctor of the Church and one of the brightest light in Western Civilization. St. Monica and her son reunited in Heaven and intercede for the Church. She is the patron saint of alcoholics, abused women and despairing mothers.

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