Saturday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time

Letter of James

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you realize that we will be judged more strictly,
for we all fall short in many respects. If anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body also.
If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.
It is the same with ships: even though they are so large and driven by fierce winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot's inclination wishes.
In the same way the tongue is a small member and yet has great pretensions. Consider how small a fire can set a huge forest ablaze.
The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire, itself set on fire by Gehenna.
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,
but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings who are made in the likeness of God.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. This need not be so, my brothers.

Psalms

Help, LORD, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the human race
Those who tell lies to one another speak with deceiving lips and a double heart.
May the LORD cut off all deceiving lips, and every boastful tongue,
Those who say, "By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?"
The promises of the LORD are sure, silver refined in a crucible, silver purified seven times.
LORD, protect us always; preserve us from this generation.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.
As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.
Then they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
He told them, "Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."

St. Barbatus(Bishop (+ 682))

SAINT BARBATUS Bishop (+ 682) St. Barbatus was born in the territory of Benevento in Italy toward the end of the pontificate of St. Gregory the Great. His parents gave him a Christian education and guided him toward sanctity. His innocence, simplicity, and purity accompanied him in every test of character. His progress in virtues was so remarkable that he received Holy Orders as soon as the canons of the Church allowed it. He was immediately employed by the bishop in preaching, for which he had an extraordinary talent. In spite of Fr. Barbatus' best efforts to reform a cadre of parishioners from St. Basil's in Morcona, near Benevento, he was slandered and met with opposition. Not without difficulty, Fr. Barbatus withdrew his charitable endeavors among them. Fr. Barbatus returned to Benevento and resumed his ministry in that city. The Christians retained many idolatrous superstitions, which even their duke, Prince Romuald, authorized by his example. Romuald was the son of Grimoald, King of the Lombards, who had edified all Italy by his conversion. In a break with familial and supernatural bonds, Prince Romuald gave himself to venerating a golden viper. He also hung animal skins over a tree used in pagan ceremonies. Archers would shoot the animal skins, superstitiously, during public games. St. Barbatus preached zealously against superstition, and at length roused the attention of the people by foretelling the distress of their city, and the calamities which it was to suffer from the army of the Emperor Constans, who, landing soon after in Italy, laid siege to Benevento. Ildebrand, Bishop of Benevento, passed away during the siege. After public tranquillity was restored, Fr. Barbatus was consecrated bishop on March 10, 663. Invested with the episcopal character, he pursued and completed the good work which he had so happily begun, and destroyed every trace of superstition in the whole state. In 680 AD, he assisted a council by Pope Agatho in Rome. The following year, he assisted in the Sixth General Council held at Constantinople against the Monothelites. Bishop Barbatus did not long survive this great assembly. He passed away on February 29, 682, being about seventy years old, almost nineteen of which he had spent in the episcopal chair.

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