Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, February 13 2016

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

58,9b-14.

]Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech;
]If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday.
]Then the LORD will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails.
]The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; "Repairer of the breach," they shall call you, "Restorer of ruined homesteads."
]If you hold back your foot on the sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; If you call the sabbath a delight, and the LORD'S holy day honorable; If you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice--
]Then you shall delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Psalm

Psalms

86(85),1-2.3-4.5-6.

]Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me,
for I am afflicted and poor.
]Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
]You are my God.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
]Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
]For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
]Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

5,27-32.

]Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, "Follow me."
]And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.
]Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them.
]The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
]Jesus said to them in reply, "Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
]I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners."

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Bl. Jordan of Saxony(Dominican Priest (c. 1190-1237))

BLESSED JORDAN OF SAXONY Dominican Priest (C. 1190-1237) Bl. Jordan of Saxony was a German of noble descent. He received a pious upbringing; and from an early age, was noted for his charity to the poor. He received his masters' degree in theology at the University of Paris. Bl. Jordan joined the Order of Preachers in 1220 under Saint Dominic. He became Prior-provincial in Lombardy in 1221 and succeeded Dominic as master-general in 1222. Under his administration, the Order spread throughout Germany and Denmark. Bl. Jordan was a gifted preacher. During one of his sermons, grace from the Holy Spirit called Saint Albert the Great into the Order. He is the author of Libellus de principiis Ordinis Praedicatorum ("Booklet on the beginnings of the Order of Preachers"), a Latin text which is both the earliest biography of Saint Dominic and the first narrative history of the Order's foundation. Bl. Jordan helped Bl. Diana d'Andalo found the monastery of Saint Agnes. He passed away during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1237. He is the patron saint of Dominican vocations.

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