Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, January 15 2018
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time
1. Reading1st book of Samuel
15,16-23.]Samuel said to Saul: "Stop! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Saul replied, "Speak!"
]Samuel then said: "Though little in your own esteem, are you not leader of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king of Israel
]and sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.'
]Why then have you disobeyed the LORD? You have pounced on the spoil, thus displeasing the LORD."
]Saul answered Samuel: "I did indeed obey the LORD and fulfill the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought back Agag, and I have destroyed Amalek under the ban.
]But from the spoil the men took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the LORD their God in Gilgal."
]But Samuel said: "Does the LORD so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams.
]For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler."
Psalms
50(49),8-9.16bc-17.21.23.]"Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
for your burnt offerings are before me always.
]I take from your house no bullock,
no goats out of your fold."
]"Why do you recite my statutes,
]and profess my covenant with your mouth,
]Though you hate discipline
and cast my words behind you?"
]"When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?
Or do you think that I am like yourself?
I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.
]He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;
and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.”
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
2,18-22.]The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to Jesus and objected, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
]Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
]But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
]No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.
]Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."
St. Paul(The First Hermit († 342))
SAINT PAUL The First Hermit (c. 230-342) St. Paul was born in Upper Egypt circa 230. He was from a wealthy family, but was orphaned at 15 years old. Fearing that a persecution would endanger his Christian perseverance, he retired to a remote village. When his pagan brother-in-law denounced him, he entered a desert trusting that God would supply his needs. St. Paul's confidence was rewarded: On the spot where Providence led him, he found water from a spring, the fruit of a palm-tree for food and its leaves for clothing. His first thought was returning when the persecution was over, but he remained after tasting great delights in prayer and penance. He remained there for ninety years: praying, doing penance and contemplating God. God revealed St. Paul's existence to St. Antony. St. Antony had been searching for water for three days when he followed a she-wolf through a passage in the rocks. He found St. Paul and they knew each other instantly, praising God together. During the visit, a raven brought them a loaf of bread. Alban Butler narrates that St. Paul exclaimed, "See how good God is! For sixty years this bird has brought me half a loaf every day. Now thou art come, Christ has doubled the provision for His servants." After passing the night in prayer, St. Paul told St. Antony that he was about to die. He asked to be buried in a cloak St. Antony received from St. Athanasius. When St. Antony hastened to fetch the cloak, he saw St. Paul's soul rise to heaven. St. Antony returned to find St. Paul kneeling as if in prayer and two lions digging the grave.
St. Remigius(Archbishop (438-533))
SAINT REMIGIUS Archbishop (438-533) St. Remigius, or Remi, was a nobleman. His faith increased because he cultivated it. At 22, in spite of the canons and his own reluctance, he was consecrated archbishop of Rheims. St. Remigius was unusually tall. His bearing was gentle, humble and retiring. He was not only learned and eloquent, but had the gift of miracles. His charity was boundless, and in toil he knew no weariness. His body was the outward expression of a noble and holy soul, with a spirit of meekness and compunction. For so choice a workman, God had fitting work. Southern France was in the hands of Arians, and the pagan Franks were wresting the North from the Romans. St. Remigius met the Frankish king Clovis and baptized him on Christmas day in 496. The conversion is credited to Clovis' holy wife Clotilda. With Clovis, Jesus Christ gained the whole Frankish nation. The altars of idols were toppled, churches were built and bishops were consecrated. St. Remigius converted so many Arians that he left France a Catholic kingdom. St. Remigius passed away in 533 after an episcopate of 74 years. He was an instrument of God's will who shaped Western history. He intercedes in causes related to his life.
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