Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, August 28 2018

Tuesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Second Letter to the Thessalonians

2,1-3a.14-17.

]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.

Psalm

Psalms

96(95),10.11-12a.12b-13.

]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.

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. Augustine(Bishop and Doctor of the Church)

SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPOBishop and Doctor of the Church(354-430) St. Augustine was born in Tagaste, Africa. He was brought up in the Christian faith, but was not baptized. As an ambitious schoolboy of brilliant talents and violent passions, he lost his faith and his innocence early on. He persisted in his irregular life until age 32. Being then in Milan and professing rhetoric, he tells us that the faith of his childhood had regained possession of his intellect, but he could not resolve to break the chains of evil habit. One day, stung to the heart by an account of some sudden conversions, he cried out, "The unlearned rise and storm heaven, and we, with all our learning, for lack of heart, lie wallowing here." He then withdrew into a garden, where a long and terrible conflict ensued. Suddenly, a young fresh voice (he knows not whose) broke in upon his strife with the words, "Take and read." He alighted upon the passage, "Walk honestly as in the day"; and with that, the battle was won. Augustine received baptism, returned home and gave everything to the poor and the Church. In Hippo, where he settled, he was consecrated bishop in 395. For 35 years, he was the center of ecclesiastical life in Africa and the Church's mightiest champion against heresy. His writings have been accepted everywhere as one of the principal sources of devotional thought and theological speculation. Among his many spiritual classics are Confessions and The City of God.

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St. Edmund Arrowsmith()

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