Tuesday of the First week of Lent

Book of Isaiah

Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats,
So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.

Psalms

Glorify the LORD with me,
let us together extol his name.
I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.
The LORD has eyes for the just,
And ears for their cry.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Jesus said to his disciples:
"In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one.
If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."

Bl. Daniel Brottier((1876-1936))

Blessed Daniel Brottier Priest (1876-1936) Bl. Daniel Brottier was a French Spiritan. He was born in 1876, and ordained a priest in 1899. To spead the Gospel beyond France's classrooms and borders, Fr. Daniel joined the Spiritan Congregation. Fr. Daniel was sent to Senegal, West Africa. After eight years, his health deteriorated; and he returned to France. There, he helped raise funds for the construction of a new cathedral in Senegal. 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 at 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. Fr. Daniel gave up his soul to God on February 28, 1936. He was beatified only forty-eight years later, in 1984, by Pope John Paul II.

Sts. Romanus & Lupicinus()

SAINTS ROMANUS and LUPICINUS Abbots (5th century) When he was thirty-five, Romaus left his relatives to spend time in the monastery of Ainay at Lyons, in the great church at the conflux of the Saône and Rhone. Many martyrs were lynched and immolated there by pagans. These martyrs "rose to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force" (Martin Luther King Jr.). Their ashes are kept to remind us that charity triumphs over hatred 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 rivers Bienne and Aliere. He found a spot of ground fit for cultivation and trees bearing wild fruit. He spent his time praying, reading and laboring for his subsistence. Lupicinus, his brother, came later on in the company of others. They were followed by several more who were drawn to the brothers' virtues and miracles. Their numbers increasing, the brothers built several monasteries and a nunnery, called La Beaume, which no men could enter. Upon St. Romanus' passing, he was buried in La Beaume. Romanus and Lupicinus governed the monks jointly and in great harmony, though Lupicinus was stricter. Lupicinus did not sleep on a bed, but used a chair or a hard board. He never drank wine, and rarely poured even a drop of oil or milk on his pottage. During the summer, he subsisted, for many years, 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 wore no stockings, unless he was obliged to go out of the monastery. St. Romanus passed away about 460 A.D., while St. Lupicinus survived him almost twenty years. Reunited in heaven, they intercede on our behalf forever and ever.

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