Saturday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Genesis

3,9-24.

The LORD God called to the Adam and asked him, “Where are you?”
He answered, "I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself."
Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!"
The man replied, "The woman whom you put here with me--she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
The LORD God then asked the woman, "Why did you do such a thing?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it."
Then the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel."
To the woman he said: "I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master."
To the man he said: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, "Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life.
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return."
The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living.
For the man and his wife the LORD God made leather garments, with which he clothed them.
Then the LORD God said: "See! The man has become like one of us, knowing what is good and what is bad! Therefore, he must not be allowed to put out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life also, and thus eat of it and live forever."
The LORD God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken.
When he expelled the man, he settled him east of the garden of Eden; and he stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Psalms

90(89),2.3-4.5-6.12-13.

Before the mountains were begotten
And the earth and the world were brought forth,
From everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You turn man back to dust,
Saying, "Return, O children of men."
For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
You make an end of them in their sleep;
the next morning they are like the changing grass,
Which at dawn springs up anew,
but by evening wilts and fades.
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

8,1-10.

In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said,
My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance."
His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?"
Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" "Seven," they replied.
He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd.
They also had a few fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also.
They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over--seven baskets.
There were about four thousand people. He dismissed them
and got into the boat with his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanutha.

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

SAINT SEVERINUS Abbot of Agaunum(+ 507) St. Severinus was from the nobility in Burgundy. He was educated in the Catholic faith while the Arian heresy swept through his country. In his youth, St. Severinus forsook the world and dedicated himself to God in the monastery of Agaunum. The monastery consisted of scattered cells until King Sigismund built the great abbey of St. Maurice. Severinus was its abbot for many years: leading his community in norms of piety, prayer, penance, mortification and works. In 504, Ab. Severinus was summoned cure Clovis, the first Christian king of France, who was ill from a fever. Clovis' physicians were ineffective, so the chamberlain sought out Severinus after hearing his prayers could cure the sick. Thus Severinus took leave of his monks, but not before prophesying his own death. On the journey, Severinus healed Eulalius, Bishop of Nevers, who had been deaf and dumb; and also a leper at the gates of Paris. Coming to the palace, Severinus immediately restored the king to perfect health by putting on the latter his cloak. The king, in gratitude, distributed large alms to the poor and released his prisoners. Severinus, returning toward Agaunum, stopped at Cháteau-Landon in Gatinois, where two priests served God in a solitary chapel. He was admitted among them as a stranger, but became known by his sanctity. Severinus foretold his death, which happened in 507 A.D. His chapel is now an abbey of reformed canons regular of St. Augustine. The Huguenots scattered St. Severus' relics when they plundered his church. His recorded history and inspired writings remain with us. His legacy lives on in the countless people he encountered and formed during his life. St. Severinus may be called upon as an intercessor for causes related to his deeds.

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