Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, January 13 2019
Baptism of the Lord - Feast
Baptism of the Lord - Feast
1. ReadingBook of Isaiah
40,1-5.9-11.]Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.
]Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.
]A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!
]Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.
]Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
]Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; Cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God!
]Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him.
]Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.
Psalms
104(103),1b-2.3-4.24-25.27-28.29-30.]O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
You are clothed with majesty and glory,
]robed in light as with a cloak.
You have spread out the heavens like a tent-cloth.
]You have constructed your palace upon the waters.
You make the clouds your chariot;
you travel on the wings of the wind.
]You make the winds your messengers,
and flaming fire your ministers.
]How manifold are your works, O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
]the sea also, great and wide,
in which are schools without number
of living things both small and great.
]All creatures look to you
to give them food in due time.
]When you give to them, they gather it;
when you open your hand, they are well filled with good things.
]If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
]When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
Letter to Titus
2,11-14.3,4-7.]Beloved: The grace of God has appeared, saving all
]and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age,
]as we await the blessed hope, the appearance of the glory of the great God and of our savior Jesus Christ,
]who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.
]But when the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared,
]not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,
]whom he richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior,
]so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
3,15-16.21-22.]The people were filled with expectation, and all were asking in their hearts whether John might be the Christ.
]John answered them all, saying, "I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.
]After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened
]and the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."
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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