Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, January 23 2017
Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingLetter to the Hebrews
9,15.24-28.]Christ is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
]For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.
]Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own;
]if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice.
]Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,
]so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
Psalms
98(97),1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6.]Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
]The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
]He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
]toward the house of Israel.
]All the ends of the earth have seen
]the salvation by our God.
]Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
]Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and melodious song.
]With trumpets and the sound of the horn
sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
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."
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.
Category: Mass by Year / Catholic Missal 2017 / Catholic Missal of january 2017
Published: 2026-07-14T18:16:14Z | Modified: 2026-07-14T18:16:14Z