Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, February 20 2019
Wednesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Genesis
8,6-13.20-22.]At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark,
]and he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.
]Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.
]But the dove could find no place to alight and perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water all over the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.
]He waited seven days more and again sent the dove out from the ark.
]In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had lessened on the earth.
]He waited still another seven days and then released the dove once more; and this time it did not come back.
]In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was drying up.
]Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered holocausts on the altar.
]When the LORD smelled the sweet odor, he said to himself: "Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the desires of man's heart are evil from the start; nor will I ever again strike down all living beings, as I have done.
]As long as the earth lasts, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Psalms
116(115),12-13.14-15.18-19.]How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
]The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
]My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
]Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
]My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
]In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
8,22-26.]When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
]He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on him and asked, "Do you see anything?"
]Looking up he replied, "I see people looking like trees and walking."
]Then he laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
]Then he sent him home and said, "Do not even go into the village."
St. Eucherius(Bishop († 743))
SAINT EUCHERIUS Bishop( 743) When St. Eucherius was born in Orleans, his parents dedicated him to God. He was formally educated starting age 7, and his virtues kept pace with his learning. He meditated assiduously on Sacred Scriptures: especially on St. Paul's discourses about the human heart's deceitfulness. Around 714, St. Eucherius entered the abbey of Jumiége in Normandy. He spent six or seven years practicing penitential austerities and obedience. When his uncle, Suavaric, the bishop of Orleans passed away, he was elected to the vacant see and consecrated in 721. He prayed to know God's will and asked his monks to pray for him. When Charles Martel stripped the churches of alms to fund his wars, St. Eucherius rebuked him. In retaliation, Charles banished St. Eucherius to Cologne in 737. St. Eucherius was then transferred to the territory of Liege, where he distributed Governor Robert's alms. He retired to Sarchinium's monastery of St. Tron's and passed away in the Holy Family's presence on February 20, 743.
Bl. Francisco and Jacinta Marto(Apostles of Our Lady of Fatima)
Francisco Marto (June 11, 1908 - April 4, 1919) and his sister Jacinta Marto (March 11, 1910 - February 20, 1920), together with their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, were children from Aljustrel, near Fatima, Portugal. They witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917. Their reported visions were politically controversial, but gave rise to a major center of world Christian pilgrimage. The youngest children of Manuel and Olimpia Marto, Francisco and Jacinta were typical of Portuguese village children at the time. They were illiterate, but had a rich oral tradition. They worked with their cousin Lucia taking care of the family's sheep. According to Lucia's memoirs, Francisco had a placid disposition, was somewhat musically inclined and liked to be by himself to think. Jacinta was affectionate if a bit spoiled and emotionally labile. She had a sweet singing voice and a gift for dancing. All three children gave up singing and dancing after the visions began: believing those led to occasions of sin and that God preferred prayer. After the apparitions were brought to public notice, they were witnessed by thousands of others. Some could not explain what their eyes had seen: perhaps from the weakness of their spirit to see the Holy Mother of God. Others reported dazzling visions, but all concluded that something beyond the world had transpired. The Blessed Virgin warned of the Second World War and the ensuing persecution of the Church, but Her secrets were kept hidden and only revealed gradually. Following their experiences, the children's fundamental personalities remained the same. Francisco preferred to pray alone: as he said, "to console Jesus for the sins of the world." Jacinta was deeply affected by a terrifying vision of Hell reportedly shown to the children at the third apparition. She became deeply convinced of the need to save sinners through penance and self-denial as the Virgin had reportedly instructed them to do. All three children, but particularly Francisco and Jacinta, practiced stringent self-mortifications to this end.
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