Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, January 23 2019

Wednesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

7,1-3.15-17.

]"Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High, met Abraham as he returned from his defeat of the kings and blessed him."
]And Abraham apportioned to him "a tenth of everything." His name first means righteous king, and he was also "king of Salem," that is, king of peace.
]Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, thus made to resemble the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
]It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek,
]who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
]For it is testified: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."

Psalm

Psalms

110(109),1.2.3.4.

]The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand
till I make your enemies your footstool.”
]The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:
“Rule in the midst of your enemies.”
]“Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;
before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”
]The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:
“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

3,1-6.

]Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand.
]They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him.
]He said to the man with the withered hand, "Come up here before us."
]Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?" But they remained silent.
]Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
]The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.

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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.

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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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