Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, February 28 2019

Thursday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Sirach

5,1-10.

]Rely not on your wealth; say not: "I have the power."
]Rely not on your strength in following the desires of your heart.
]Say not: "Who can prevail against me?" for the LORD will exact the punishment.
]Say not: "I have sinned, yet what has befallen me?" for the LORD bides his time.
]Of forgiveness be not overconfident, adding sin upon sin.
]Say not: "Great is his mercy; my many sins he will forgive."
]For mercy and anger alike are with him; upon the wicked alights his wrath.
]Delay not your conversion to the LORD, put it not off from day to day;
]For suddenly his wrath flames forth; at the time of vengeance, you will be destroyed.
]Rely not upon deceitful wealth, for it will be no help on the day of wrath.

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 Mark

9,41-50.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.
]Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
]If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.
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]And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.
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]And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,
]where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
]Everyone will be salted with fire.
]Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another."

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Bl. Daniel Brottier(Priest (1876-1936))

Blessed Daniel Brottier Priest (1876-1936) Bl. Daniel Brottier was a French Spiritan. He was born in 1876 and ordained to the priestood in 1899. To spead the Gospel beyond France's classrooms and borders, he joined the Spiritan Congregation. Fr. Daniel was sent to Senegal, West Africa. After eight years, his health deteriorated and he returned to France. He raised funds to construct a cathedral in Dakar, Senegal, which was completed in 1936. When World War I broke out, Fr. Daniel became a volunteer chaplain. He attributed his survival on the front lines to the intercession of Saint Therese of Lisieux. When she was canonized, he built a chapel for her in Auteuil. After the war, Fr. Daniel established a project for orphans and abandoned children. The Orphan Apprentices of Auteuil, which began in the suburbs of Paris, serves the French people to this day. He passed away on February 28, 1936, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984.

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Sts. Romanus and Lupicinus(Abbots (5th century))

SAINTS ROMANUS and LUPICINUS Abbots (5th century) When Romanus was 35 years old, he left his relatives and spent time at the Ainay Monastery in Lyons, at the conflux of the Saône and Rhone. Many martyrs had been lynched and immolated there by pagans. Their ashes were kept as a reminder that charity and love triumph over sin and death. After completing his novitiate, Romanus retired to the forests of Mount Jura between France and Switzerland. He fixed his abode at a place called Condate, at the conflux of the Bienne and Aliere. He found a spot of ground fit for cultivation and trees bearing wild fruit. He spent his time praying, reading and working. Romanus' brother Lupicinus followed with disciples. Several others soon joined, drawn by the brothers' virtues and holiness. As their numbers increased, the brothers built several monasteries and a nunnery, called La Beaume, which no men could enter. When Romanus passed away, he was buried at La Beaume. Lupicinus was ascetical. He did not use a bed and instead slept on a chair or hard board. He never drank wine; and only put a little oil or milk on his pottage. In the summer, he subsisted on hard bread moistened in water so he could eat it with a spoon. His tunic was made of various skins of beasts sewn together with a cowl. He used wooden shoes, and only wore stocks outside the monastery. After Romanus passed away around the year 460, Lupicinus survived him by almost twenty years. They are now in Heaven and intercede for causes of prayer, conversion and discipline. Their fasting helped them attain purity and lead blameless lives.

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