Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, August 28 2019

Wednesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Thessalonians

2,9-13.

]You recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
]You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers.
]As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,
]exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you conduct yourselves as worthy of the God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
]And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that,in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not as a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe.

Psalm

Psalms

139(138),7-8.9-10.11-12ab.

]Where can I go from your spirit?
from your presence where can I flee?
]If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I sink to the nether world, you are present there.
]If I take the wings of the dawn,
if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
]even there your hand shall guide me,
and your right hand hold me fast.
]If I say, “Surely the darkness shall hide me,
and night shall be my light”–
]For you darkness itself is not dark,
]and night shines as the day.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

23,27-32.

]Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth.
]Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.
]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,
]and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets' blood.'
]Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;
]now fill up what your ancestors measured out!"

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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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