Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, January 18 2019

Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the First week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter 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.

Psalm

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.

Gospel

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."

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St. Jaime Hilario(Martyr (1898-1937))

Saint Jaime Hilario Martyr (1898-1937) St. Jaime Hilario was a member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He was baptized Manuel Barbal Cosan on January 2, 1898. He was from Enviny in the Pyrenees mountain range of Catalonia, northern Spain. He was known for his serious nature. With his parents' blessing, he entered the minor seminary of the diocese of La Seu de Urgel at 12 years old. He later suffered an ear infection and was forced to abandon his studies for the priesthood. In 1917, convinced that God was calling him, he joined the novitiate of the La Salle Brothers in Irún. He took the name Jaime Hilario. After sixteen years in various teaching assignments, his increasing deafness forced him to retire. He moved to Cambrils, near Tarragona, and worked in the garden of the Order's training house. At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war on July 18, 1936, he took refuge in nearby Mollerosa on his way to visit his family, but was arrested as a religious and jailed. In December, he was transferred to Tarragona for trial. He was held on board a prison ship with several other brothers. On January 15, 1937, he was given a summary trial. Though he could have been freed by claiming to be only a gardener, he insisted on his identity as a religious. He was condemned to death on no grounds beyond his religious status. St. Jaime was shot in a wood known as the Mount of Olives next to Tarragona cemetery on January 18, 1937. His last words to his executioners were, "My friends, to die for Christ is to reign." When two volleys failed to meet their mark, the soldiers dropped their rifles and fled in panic. The commander, shouting a furious oath, shot St. Jaime five times in the temple. Hewas the first of 97 Christian Brothers killed in Catalonia during the Spanish civil war. He was beatified on April 29, 1990. On November 21, 1999, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

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