Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, August 7 2016

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Wisdom

18,6-9.

]The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.
]Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes.
]For when you punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had summoned.
]For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution.

Psalm

Psalms

33(32),1.12.18-19.20.22.

]Exult, you just, in the LORD;
Praise from the upright is fitting.
]Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
]See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
]To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
]Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield,
]May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.

2. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

11,1-2.8-19.

]Brothers and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
]Because of it the ancients were well attested.
]By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
]By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;
]for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.
]By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age--and Sarah herself was sterile--for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy.
]So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
]All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,
]for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.
]If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return.
]But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
]By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,
]of whom it was said, "Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name."
]He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

12,32-48.

]Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
]Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
]For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
]Gird your loins and light your lamps
]and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
]Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
]And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants."
]Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
]You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come."
]Then Peter said, "Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?"
]And the Lord replied, "Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute (the) food allowance at the proper time?
]Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
]Truly, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
]But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,
]then that servant's master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
]That servant who knew his master's will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely;
]and the servant who was ignorant of his master's will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”

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St. Cajetan(Priest (1480-1547))

SAINT CAJETAN Priest (1480-1547) St. Cajetan was from Vicenza, northeastern Italy. His parents dedicated him to Our Blessed Lady soon after he was conceived. During childhood, he was so pious that his friends nicknamed him "the saint." Cajetan became a distinguished student in Vicenza. He later became Pope Julius II's consul in Rome. When a new pope was consecrated, he returned to Vicenza. He patiently bore his relatives' scorn for joining the Confraternity of St. Jerome and spent his wealth building hospitals and nursing victims of the plague. Cajetan instituted the first community of regular clerks, the Theatines. They were priests living in community who performed pastoral works. Cajetan was the first to introduce the Forty Hours' Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as an antidote to John Calvin's heresy. The Blessed Virgin Mary reciprocated St. Cajetan's devotion by placing the Infant Jesus in his arms one Christmas Eve. He sanctified his actions with supernatural intent and offered up all his sufferings. When Germanic clans under the Constable Bourbon sacked Rome, they scourged him for wealth he had already given away. Alban Butler, translating Acta Sanctorum, gives this account of Fr. Cajetan's passing: "When St. Cajetan was on his death-bed, resigned to the will of God, eager for pain to satisfy his love and for death to attain to life, he beheld the Mother of God, radiant with splendor and surrounded by ministering seraphim. In profound veneration, he said, 'Lady, bless me!' Mary replied, 'Cajetan, receive the blessing of my Son; and know that I am here as a reward for the sincerity of your love and to lead you to paradise.' She then exhorted him to patience in fighting an evil spirit that troubled him and gave orders to the choirs of angels to escort his soul to heaven. Then, turning her countenance full of majesty and sweetness upon him, she said, 'Cajetan, my Son calls thee. Let us go in peace.'"

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