Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, January 13 2016
Wednesday of the First week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the First week in Ordinary Time
1. Reading1st book of Samuel
3,1-10.19-20.]During the time young Samuel was minister to the LORD under Eli, a revelation of the LORD was uncommon and vision infrequent.
]One day Eli was asleep in his usual place. His eyes had lately grown so weak that he could not see.
]The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was.
]The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, "Here I am."
]He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am. You called me." "I did not call you," Eli said. "Go back to sleep." So he went back to sleep.
]Again the LORD called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. "Here I am," he said. "You called me." But he answered, "I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep."
]At that time Samuel was not familiar with the LORD, because the LORD had not revealed anything to him as yet.
]The LORD called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, "Here I am. You called me." Then Eli understood that the LORD was calling the youth.
]So he said to Samuel, "Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, 'Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.'" When Samuel went to sleep in his place,
]the LORD came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, "Samuel, Samuel!" Samuel answered, "Speak, for your servant is listening."
]Samuel grew up, and the LORD was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.
]Thus all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba came to know that Samuel was an accredited prophet of the LORD.
Psalms
40(39),2.5.7-8a.8b-9.10.]I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
]Blessed the man who makes the LORD his trust;
who turns not to idolatry
or to those who stray after falsehood.
]Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;
]then said I, “Behold I come.”
]“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
]To do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!”
]I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
1,29-39.]On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.
]Simon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her.
]He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them.
]When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons.
]The whole town was gathered at the door.
]He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons, not permitting them to speak because they knew him.
]Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.
]Simon and those who were with him pursued him
]and on finding him said, "Everyone is looking for you."
]He told them, "Let us go on to the nearby villages that I may preach there also. For this purpose have I come."
]So he went into their synagogues, preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee.
St. Hilary of Poitiers(Bishop and Doctor of the Church (c. 315- c. 367))
SAINT HILARY OF POITIERS Bishop and Doctor of the Church (c. 315-c. 367) St. Hilary was a native of Poitiers in Aquitaine, Southwestern France. He was raised and educated as a pagan. In middle age, he embraced Christianity: moved thereto by God presented in the Holy Scriptures. He soon converted his wife and daughter and detached himself from anti-Christian company. At the beginning of his conversion, St. Hilary would not eat with or acknowledge Jews and heretics. He relaxed his severity later on to became a fisher of men (Mk. 1:14-20, Mt. 4:18-22). He received Holy Orders; and in 350, was consecrated bishop of Poitiers. The Arian heresy, under the protection of Emperor Constantine, was then at its peak. St. Hilary supported the orthodox cause in several Gallic councils where Arians formed an overwhelming majority. As a consequence, he was banished to Phrygia in Anatolia. He spent four years in exile composing his great Treatise on the Trinityand many others works. In 359, St. Hilary attended the Council of Seleucia in Constantinople. He went there with the council's deputies and contended with Arians and other heretics. He confounded their reasoning, and they asked the emperor to send him back to Gaul. St. Hilary traversed Gaul, Italy and Illyria. He disproved heresies by illuminating the mood and inconsistency from which they stem. Chesterton wrote, "Heresy sets the mood against the mind." After seven or eight years of missionary travel, St. Hilary returned to Poitiers. He passed away peacefully in 368.
St. Veronica of Binasco(Religious (c. 1445-1497))
SAINT VERONICA OF BINASCO Religious (c. 1445-1497) Veronica's family were peasants from a village near Milan. She offered her heart to God at every moment of work in the fields. As the desire for perfection grew within her, she became deaf to selfish jokes and songs, and sometimes hid her face and wept. Veronica was illiterate, but became enamored with learning. She rose secretly at night to teach herself to read. Our Lady appeared to her and presented three mystical letters that taught her more than books. The first signified purity of intention; the second, abhorrence of murmuring or criticism; the third, daily meditation on the Passion. By purity of intention, Veronica began her duties for no human motive, but God alone. By abhorrence of gossip, murmuring and criticism, she finished what she had begun by minding her own business, never judging others and praying for those who erred. By daily meditation on the Passion, she forgot her own pains and sorrows in those of the Lord - mourning hourly, but silently, for sins. Veronica experienced ecstasies. She also saw in successive visions the whole life of Jesus. By a special grace, neither her raptures nor her tears ever interrupted her labors. After three years' patient waiting, she was received as a lay-sister at the convent of St. Martha in Milan. The community was extremely poor and Veronica's duty was to beg for food. Three years after receiving the habit, she was afflicted with secret, constant bodily pain; but never asked to be relieved of her duties. By exact obedience, Veronica became a living copy of the rule. She obeyed with a smile the least hint of her superiors and performed the hardest, most humbling tasks without complaint. She gave her heart undivided to Jesus Christ and enjoyed the highest favors granted to the saints. She passed away in 1497, after a six-month illness, in the thirtieth year of her religious profession.
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