Saturday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time

1st book of Kings

3,4-13.

Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, because that was the most renowned high place. Upon its altar Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, "Ask something of me and I will give it to you."
Solomon answered: "You have shown great favor to your servant, my father David, because he behaved faithfully toward you, with justice and an upright heart; and you have continued this great favor toward him, even today, seating a son of his on his throne.
O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act.
I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.
Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?"
The LORD was pleased that Solomon made this request.
So God said to him: "Because you have asked for this--not for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies, but for understanding so that you may know what is right--
I do as you requested. I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you.
In addition, I give you what you have not asked for, such riches and glory that among kings there is not your like.

Psalms

119(118),9.10.11.12.13.14.

How shall a young man be faultless in his way?
By keeping to your words.
With all my heart I seek you;
let me not stray from your commands.
Within my heart I treasure your promise,
That I may not sin against you.
Blessed are you, O LORD;
teach me your laws.
With my lips I declare
all the ordinances of your mouth.
In the way of your decrees I rejoice,
as much as in all riches.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

6,30-34.

The Apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught.
He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat.
So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.
People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them.
When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

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St. Agatha(Virgin & Martyr (+ 251) - Memorial)

SAINT AGATHA Virgin and Martyr (+ 251) St. Agatha was born in Sicily to rich and noble parents. A child of benediction from the first, she was promised to her parents before her birth, and consecrated from her earliest infancy to God. In the midst of dangers and temptations, she served Christ in purity of body and soul, and died for chastity. Quintanus, governor of Sicily under Emperor Decius, had heard the rumor of her beauty and wealth, and made the laws against Christians a pretext for summoning her from Palermo to Catania. "O Jesus Christ, all that I am is Yours; I consecrate my body to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Preserve me against the tyrant." Our Lord preserved her who had given herself so fully. Jesus Christ and Mama Mary kept St. Agatha pure and undefiled while she was imprisoned for a whole month. They gave her the strength to reject sin as she offered God her life and safety.When Quintanus turned from passion to cruelty, and cut off her breasts, Our Lord sent the Prince of His apostles to heal her. And when, after she had been rolled naked upon potsherds, she asked that her torments might be ended, Jesus Christ heard her prayer and took her to Himself. St. Agatha gave herself without reserve to Jesus Christ; she followed Him in virginal purity, and then looked to Him for protection. To this very day, Christ has shown His tender regard for the body of St. Agatha. Again and again, during the eruptions of Mount Etna, the people of Catania have exposed her veil for public veneration, and found safety. In modern times, on opening the tomb where her body rests, they beheld the skin still entire, and a sweet fragrance issuing from the temple of the Holy Spirit.

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