Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, January 22 2019

Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

6,10-20.

]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.

Psalm

Psalms

111(110),1-2.4-5.9.10c.

]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.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

2,23-28.

]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."

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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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