Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, January 24 2017

Tuesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

10,1-10.

]Brothers and sisters, since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year.
]Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness of sins?
]But in those sacrifices there is only a yearly remembrance of sins,
]for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.
]For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
]holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.
]Then I said, 'As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.'"
]First he says, "Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in." These are offered according to the law.
]Then he says, "Behold, I come to do your will." He takes away the first to establish the second.
]By this "will," we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Psalm

Psalms

40(39),2.4ab.7-8a.10.11.

]I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.
]And he put a new song into my mouth,
]a hymn to our God.
]Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;
]then said I, “Behold I come.”
]I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
]Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;
your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;
I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth
in the vast assembly.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

3,31-35.

]The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.
]A crowd seated around him told him, "Your mother and your brothers (and your sisters) are outside asking for you."
]But he said to them in reply, "Who are my mother and (my) brothers?"
]And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.
](For) whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

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St. Francis of Sales(Doctor of the Church († 1622))

SAINT FRANCIS OF SALES Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1566-1622) St. Francis of Sales was a nobleman whose family ruled Haute-Savoie, France. He was privately tutored at religious colleges and had a grand political-military career marked out for him by his father. He was initially afraid for his soul, but his prayers before the Black Madonna reassured him of God's eternal, unfailing love. St. Francis' father did not accept his son's religious vocation and only consentedwhen Francis was given a position in Geneva. St. Francis ministered in territories near Geneva under constant threat of violence from Calvinists. He worked under the auspices of the Duke of Savoy, together with his cousin Louis of Sales. It is stated that he converted 72,000 Calvinists. His simple sermons, rooted in love and without condemnation for heretics became the touchstone for countless conversions. St. Francis preached in Annecy, France, where the king welcomed him as a courtier in spite of the latter's excesses. St. Francis thus became a consultant to noblemen on many matters and even on welcoming Teresa of Avila's order in France. He was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Geneva in 1602 at the Pope's behest and founded religious communities. Together with St. Jane Frances of Chantal, he founded the Order of the Visitation in Annecy, which soon spread across Europe. At times, St. Francis' gentleness toward heretics and sinners nearly scandalized his friends. One of them said, "Francis of Sales will go to Paradise of course, but I am not so sure of the Bishop of Geneva. I am almost afraid his gentleness will play him a shrewd turn." "Ah," said the Saint, "I would rather account to God for too great gentleness than for too great severity. Is not God all love? God the Father is the Father of mercy; God the Son is a Lamb; God the Holy Spirit is a Dove that is gentleness itself." His elegant, powerful preaching, rooted in God's love and mercy, led him to author several spiritual classics, including "Introduction to the Devout Life" and "Treatise on the Love of God." His spirituality has made him the father of religious communities the world over. St. Francis declined excess provisions, dignities and the great see of Paris. Hepassed away in Avignon in 1622. The following words from scripture well-summarize his influence: "Goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Ps. 23:6).

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