Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, February 11 2016

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

1. Reading

Book of Deuteronomy

30,15-20.

]Moses said to the people: "Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.
]If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
]If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,
]I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
]I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
]by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

Psalm

Psalms

1,1-2.3.4.6.

]Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
]But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
]He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
]Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
]For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,22-25.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."
]Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
]For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
]What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?"

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St. Severinus of Agaunum(Abbot (+ 507))

SAINT SEVERINUS Abbot of Agaunum(+ 507) St. Severinus was a Burgundian nobleman. He received the Catholic faith while the Arian heresy swept through his country. In his youth, he forsook the world and dedicated himself to God in the monastery of Agaunum, Switzerland. He was appointed abbot while the monastery consisted of scattered cells and beforeKing Sigismund built the Abbey of St. Maurice. In 504, St. Severinus was summoned by Clovis, the first Christian king of France, who was ill from a fever. Clovis' chamberlain sought out Severinus after hearing the latter's prayers healed the sick. En route,St. Severinus healed Eulalius, the bishop of Nevers, who wad deaf and dumb, and also a leper at the gates of Paris. Upon arriving, St. Severinus healed Clovis by placing his cloak on the latter. With gratitude, Clovis distributed large alms to the poor and released prisoners. On the return home, Severinus stopped at Cháteau-Landon in Gatinois. Two priests serving God in a solitary chapel welcomed him as a stranger, but recognized him because of his holiness. St. Severinus foretold his death, which occurred in 507 A.D. Years after his passing, the Huguenots plundered his church and scattered his relics. His legacy lives on in the countless people he encountered and formed during his life. His chapel is now an abbey of the reformed canons regular of St. Augustine.

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