Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, January 23 2016
Saturday of the Second week in Ordinary Time
Saturday of the Second week in Ordinary Time
1. Reading2nd book of Samuel
1,1-4.11-12.19.23-27.]David returned from his defeat of the Amalekites and spent two days in Ziklag.
]On the third day a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. Going to David, he fell to the ground in homage.
]David asked him, "Where do you come from?" He replied, "I have escaped from the Israelite camp."
]"Tell me what happened," David bade him. He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and that many of them had fallen and were dead, among them Saul and his son Jonathan.
]David seized his garments and rent them, and all the men who were with him did likewise.
]They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the soldiers of the LORD of the clans of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
]"Alas! the glory of Israel, Saul, slain upon your heights; how can the warriors have fallen!
]Saul and Jonathan, beloved and cherished, separated neither in life nor in death, swifter than eagles, stronger than lions!
]Women of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and in finery, who decked your attire with ornaments of gold.
]"How can the warriors have fallen-- in the thick of the battle, slain upon your heights!
]"I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! most dear have you been to me; More precious have I held love for you than love for women.
]"How can the warriors have fallen, the weapons of war have perished!"
Psalms
80(79),2-3.5-7.]Shepherd of Israel, listen!
From your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth
]Rouse your power,
come to save us.
]LORD of hosts, how long will you burn with anger
while your people pray?
]You have fed them the bread of tears,
made them drink tears in abundance.
]You have left us to be fought over by our neighbors;
our enemies deride us.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
3,20-21.]Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.
]When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
St. Marianne Cope(Religious (1838-1918))
St. Marianne CopeReligious (1838 - 1918) St. Marianne responded to victims of leprosy in Molokai, Hawaii, with heroic generosity. Hervirtues were celebrated during her beatification on May 14, 2005. She was a woman who spoke “the language of truth and love,” said Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Her life was “a wonderful work of divine grace.” He also said about her special love for persons suffering from leprosy: “She saw in them the suffering face of Jesus. Like the Good Samaritan, she became their mother.” St. Marianne was born on January 23, 1838, to Peter and Barbara Cope of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. She was named after her mother. Two years later, the family immigrated to the United States and settled in Utica, New York. She worked in a factory until August 1862. She joined the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, professed vows in November the following year and began teaching at Assumption parish school. St. Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation. She was a natural leader and was thrice elected as the superior of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse. Her experiences proved invaluable during her years in Hawaii. St. Marrianne was elected provincial in 1877 and unanimously re-elected in 1881. When the Hawaiian government asked more than 50 religious communities in Canada and the United States to run the Kakaako Receiving Station for people suspected of having leprosy, 35 of the sisters volunteered immediately. On October 22, 1883, St. Marianne and six sisters left for Hawaii, where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu. On the island of Maui, they opened a hospital and a school for girls. In 1888, St. Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls.” The Hawaiian government was reluctant at first because they underestimated her. St. Marianne took charge of the home thatSt. Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys, introduced medical best practices and emphasized humanistic appreciation. Bright scarves and dresses for women were part of her approach. St. Marianne was awarded the Royal Order of Kapiolani by the Hawaiian government and celebrated in a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Her sisters have attracted vocations among the Hawaiian people and still work on Molokai.In 2005, she was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI. She was canonized on October 21, 2012.
St. John the Almoner(Patriarch of Alexandria († c. 620))
SAINT JOHN THE ALMONERPatriarch of Alexandria( c. 620) St. John became a religious after his wife and two children passed away. He donated all his wealth and became known throughout the East as the Almoner. He was consecrated patriarch of Alexandria and fed seventy-five hundred destitute persons every day. Every Wednesday and Friday, St. John sat on a bench in front of the church and heard the complaints of the needy and aggrieved. The awareness of death was ever before him and he never spoke an idle word. He turned disruptive persons out of church and barred unrepentant sinners from his house. St. John left seventy churches in Alexandria where he had found but seven. He passed away in Cyprus, his native place, around the year 620. He is the patron saint of Hospitallers.
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