Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, December 9 2025

Tuesday of the Second week of Advent

Book of Isaiah

Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.
A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!
Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.
Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
A voice says, "Cry out!" I answer, "What shall I cry out?" "All mankind is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. (So then, the people is the grass.)
Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever."
Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; Cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God!
Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him.
Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.

Psalms

Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all you lands.
Sing to the LORD, bless his name;
Announce his salvation day after day.
Tell his glory among the nations;
among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.  
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
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 before the LORD.
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 to his disciples: “What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?  
And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”

St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin((1474-1548))

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548) Little is known about Juan Diego before his conversion. However, "El Nican Mopohua" (written in Náhuatl with Latin characters in 1556 by the Indigenous writer Antonio Valeriano), gives some information on his life and the apparitions.Juan Diego was born in Cuautlitlán, which is today a part of Mexico City. He was given the name "Cuauhtlatoatzin" ("the talking eagle"). He was a gifted member of the Chichimeca, the most culturally advanced group in the Anáhuac Valley. At 50 years old, Juan Diego was baptized by a Franciscan priest, Fr. Peter da Gand. On December 9, 1531, on his way to morning Mass, the Blessed Mother appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill, on the outskirts of what is now Mexico City. She asked him to tell the bishop to build a shrine there in her name, and promised to pour out her grace upon those who invoked her. The bishop did not believe Juan Diego and asked for a sign. On December 12, Juan Diego returned to Tepeyac. There, the Blessed Mother told him to climb the hill and pick the flowers in bloom. He obeyed, and although it was winter time, he found roses blooming. He gathered the roses and took them to Our Lady, who carefully placed them in his mantle and told him to take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego opened his mantle, the roses fell to the ground, and there remained impressed an image of the Blessed Mother. With the bishop's permission, Juan Diego lived near the chapel where the miraculous image was placed for veneration. He cared for the church and the first pilgrims who came to pray to the Mother of God. Much deeper than the exterior grace of having been chosen as Our Lady's messenger, Juan Diego received the grace of interior enlightenment. From that moment, he began a life dedicated to prayer, virtue and love of God and neighbor. He passed away in 1548 and was buried in the first chapel dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. He was beatified on May 6, 1990, by Pope John Paul II in the Basilica of Santa Maria di Guadalupe, Mexico City, and canonized on July 31, 2002. The miraculous image, which is preserved in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, shows a woman of mixed native and European heritage. She is supported by an angel whose wings are reminiscent of one of the major gods of the traditional religion of that area. The black girdle about her waist signifies that she is pregnant. Thus, the image depicts that Christ is to be born again among the people of the New World. Laser scanning and scientific instruments determined that the Virgin's eyes had rested upon those present at the Cloak's first unveiling. The representation of native traditions in colors and symbols, and the image's preservation from accidental destruction, confirms that the Blessed Virgin is alive and is the Mediatrix of the human race.

St. Leocadia(Virgin and Martyr († c. 304))

SAINT LEOCADIAVirgin and Martyr( c. 304) St. Leocadia was a native of Toledo. In 304, she was arrested on Governor Dacian's order. Leocadia had heard of St. Eulalia's martyrdom and prayed to Jesus for courage. Soon after, she was martyred in prison. Three famous churches in Toledo are named after St. Leocadia. Most of the councils of Toledo were held in one of her churches. She is honored as the city's principal patroness. St. Leocadia's relics were kept in the Toledo Church until the Moorish incursions. Hence, they were conveyed to Oviedo. They were transferred some years afterward to the abbey of St. Guislain, near Mons in Hainault. On April 26, 1589, they were placed in the Toledo Cathedral.

St. Peter Fourier()

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