Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, January 22 2018

Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

2nd book of Samuel

5,1-7.10.

]In those days, all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said: "Here we are, your bone and your flesh.
]In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led the Israelites out and brought them back. And the LORD said to you, 'You shall shepherd my people Israel and shall be commander of Israel.'"
]When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, King David made an agreement with them there before the LORD, and they anointed him king of Israel.
]David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years:
]seven years and six months in Hebron over Judah, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah.
]Then the king and his men set out for Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the region. David was told, "You cannot enter here: the blind and the lame will drive you away!" which was their way of saying, "David cannot enter here."
]But David did take the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David.
]David grew steadily more powerful, for the LORD of hosts was with him.

Psalm

Psalms

89(88),20.21-22.25-26.

]Once you spoke in vision;
to your faithful ones you said:
“On a champion I have placed a crown;
over the people I have set a youth.”
]I have chosen David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him.
]That my hand will be with him;
and that my arm will make him strong.
]My loyalty and love will be with him;
through my name his horn will be exalted.
]I will set his hand upon the sea,
his right hand upon the rivers.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

3,22-30.

]The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
]Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
]If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
]And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
]And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
]But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
]Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
]But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
]For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."

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St. Vincent(Deacon and Martyr († 304))

SAINT VINCENT Deacon and Martyr ( 304) St. Vincent was the archdeacon of the church in Saragossa, Spain. He preached for the bishop, Valerian, because the latter had a speech impediment. When Diocletian's persecution erupted, they were both arrested and tried by Dacian. Bp. Valerian was banished and St. Vincent was sentenced to death. St. Vincent was stretched on a rack and torn asunder. Dacian mocked him for resisting and had the torturers intensify their work. St. Vincent's flesh was torn with hooks and he was fastened to a chair of red-hot iron. Next, lard and salt were rubbed into his wounds. He persevered and remained faithful, sharing in Christ's Passion. St. Vincent was cast into a solitary dungeon with his feet in the stocks. Miraculously, angels illuminated the darkness and assured him that victory was near. After the apparitions, St. Vincent's wounds were tended to prepare him for fresh torture. Before the tortures recommenced, St. Vincent's hour came and he breathed forth his soul to God. The dead bodies of the saints are precious in the sight of God and the hand of iniquity cannot touch them. A raven guarded St. Vincent's body where it lay flung upon the earth. When his body was sunk out at sea, the waves carried it ashore. His relics are enshrined at the Augustinian monastery in Lisbon.

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