Tuesday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

First Letter to the Corinthians

Brothers and sisters: The Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.
Among men, who knows what pertains to the man
except his spirit that is within?
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God.
And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.
Now the natural man does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.
The one who is spiritual, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone.
For "who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Psalms

The LORD is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion endures through all generations.
The LORD is faithful in all his words
and holy in all his works.
The LORD lifts up all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath,
and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.
In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice,
Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!
Jesus rebuked him and said, "Be quiet! Come out of him!" Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.
They were all amazed and said to one another, "What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out."
And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.

St. Jeanne Jugan()

St. Jeanne JuganFoundress of Religious CommunitySt. Jeanne Jugan is the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 3, 1982; and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009; her virtues and intercession are everlasting. She grew up in a small town in revolutionary France. When those who openly practiced their faith were either imprisoned or killed, Jeanne received her faith formation from her mother and a group of women who belonged to a lay movement.When St. Jeanne was 4, her father was lost at sea. Her mother found odd jobs to make ends meet. When a young girl, St. Jeanne worked as a shepherdess. She also knit and spun wool. A while later, she went on to work as a maid for a wealthy family. Despite having a modest education, St. Jeanne's heart was ablaze. Now, barely out of her teens, St. Jeanne felt the call of divine love. She told her mother, "God wants me for himself. He is keeping me for a work which is not yet founded." After, she set to work among the poor in a local hospital.One cold winter night, St. Jean encountered Jesus in the person of an elderly, blind, infirm woman, who was dying in the cold. St. Jeanne carried the woman home, lifted her up the stairs to her small room, and placed the woman in her bed. Henceforth, St. Jeanne would sleep in the attic, as she made her home into a refuge for the destitute and marginalized in revolutionary France.God instilled great fervor and zealousness in Jeanne. Many women responded to the call, the invitation to serve. By the working of the Holy Spirit, a religious community was born. The local citizens were struck by their spirit of humble service, and called the group the Little Sisters of the Poor; and the name stuck. From then on, their order spread across France and beyond.Although her Order's foundress, St. Jeanne was early-on demoted by eclesiastical authorities and an ambitious priest was placed in charge. St. Jeanne was sent out begging by the new Superior of the Order she had founded. In time, St. Jeanne was placed in retirement. At the time of her passing, 27 years later, the nacent Little Sisters had no idea St. Jeanne was their foundress. St. Jeanne said, "We are grafted onto the Cross, and we must carry it joyfully." Her rich spiritual reflections continue yielding grace and illuminating spiritual realities.In her words:"Be very little before God." ... "It is so good to be poor, ... (relinquishing everything), and depending on God for everything." ... "God will help us; the work is His."

St. Fiaker(Anchorite († c. 670))

SAINT FIAKER Anchorite( c. 670) St. Fiaker was born in Ireland and educated by a bishop, who some say was Conan, Bishop of Soder or the Western Islands. Rejecting worldly vanity, he renounced a splendid career to live as a mystic. He then sailed to France to maintain holy solitude. Divine Providence conducted Fiaker to St. Faro, who was the Bishop of Meaux. When they met, the prelate discerned Fiaker's marks of extraordinary virtue and ability; and gave the latter a solitary dwelling in a forest called Breuil. In this place, the holy Anchorite cleared the ground of trees and briers, made himself a cell, with a small garden, and built an oratory in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in which he spent a great part of the days and nights in devout prayer. He tilled his garden and labored with his own hands for subsistence. Fiaker constantly maintained the presence of God, and only necessity or charity interrupted his exercises. Many approached him for advice and the poor of spirit for divine gifts. But following the Trish monks' rule, he never had a woman enter his personal enclosure. St. Chillen, or Kilian, an Irish nobleman, visited St. Fiaker on his return from Rome. With time under Fiaker's disciple, St. Kilian went on to preach in the neighboring dioceses with every bishops' approval. Selfless and loyal to the end, St. Fiaker awaits us, the Church Militant, on the threshold of heaven, praying and interceding for us until the end of time.

St. Pammachius()

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