Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, January 13 2017
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingLetter to the Hebrews
4,1-5.11.]Let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed.
]For in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened.
]For we who believed enter into (that) rest, just as he has said: "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest,'" and yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of the world.
]For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this manner, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works";
]and again, in the previously mentioned place, "They shall not enter into my rest."
]Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall after the same example of disobedience.
Psalms
78(77),3.4bc.6c-7.8.]What we have heard and know,
And what our fathers have declared to us,
]we will declare to the generation to come
]The glorious deeds of the LORD and his strength.
]That they too may rise and declare to their sons
]that they should put their hope in God,
And not forget the deeds of God
but keep his commands.
]And not be like their fathers,
a generation wayward and rebellious,
A generation that kept not its heart steadfast
nor its spirit faithful toward God.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
2,1-12.]When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it became known that he was at home.
]Many gathered together so that there was no longer room for them, not even around the door, and he preached the word to them.
]They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
]Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
]When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Child, your sins are forgiven."
]Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves,
]Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?
]Jesus immediately knew in his mind what they were thinking to themselves, so he said, "Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
]Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, pick up your mat and walk'?
]But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth"--
]he said to the paralytic, "I say to you, rise, pick up your mat, and go home."
]He rose, picked up his mat at once, and went away in the sight of everyone. They were all astounded and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this."
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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