Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Hebrews

Brothers and sisters: God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones.
We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end,
so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises.
When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, "he swore by himself,"
and said, "I will indeed bless you and multiply" you.
And so, after patient waiting, he obtained the promise.
Human beings swear by someone greater than themselves; for them an oath serves as a guarantee and puts an end to all argument.
So when God wanted to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath,
so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.
This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior behind the veil,
where Jesus has entered on our behalf as forerunner, becoming high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Psalms

I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
exquisite in all their delights.
He has won renown for his wondrous deeds;
gracious and merciful is the LORD.
He has given food to those who fear him;
He will forever be mindful of his covenant.
He has sent deliverance to his people;
he has ratified his covenant forever;
holy and awesome is his name.
His praise endures forever.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?"
He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?"
Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath."

St. Anthony the Abbot((251-356))

SAINT ANTONY Patriarch of Monks (251-356) St. Antony was born in Upper Egypt in 251 A.D. Hearing at Mass, "If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor," he donated all his great wealth. He then begged an aged hermit to teach him the spiritual life. He also visited various solitaries, emulating the principal virtue of each. To serve God more perfectly, Antony entered the desert and immured himself in a ruin, building up the door so that none could enter. Here, the fallen angels tempted and assailed him, appearing as various monsters, and even wounding him; but his courage never flagged, and he overcame them by the sign of the Cross. One night, whilst Antony was in solitude, many demons assailed him. A friend found him, and believing him dead, carried him home. But when Antony came to himself, he returned to his solitude. There, prostrate from weakness, Antony defied the demons, saying, "I fear you not; you cannot separate me from the love of Christ." After more vain assaults, the devils fled, and Christ appeared to Antony in glory. Antony's only food was bread and water, which he never tasted before sunset, and sometimes only once in two, three, or four days. He wore sackcloth and sheepskin, and often knelt in prayer from sunset to sunrise. Many souls flocked to Antony for advice; and after twenty years of solitude, he consented to guide them in holiness - thus founding the first monastery. Antony's numerous miracles attracted such multitudes that he fled again into solitude, where he lived by manual labor. St. Antony passed away in the peace of the Holy Family. St. Athanasius, his biographer, says knowing how he lived, prayed and mortified his desires is a guide to virtue.

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