Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, January 28 2017

Saturday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Hebrews

11,1-2.8-19.

]Brothers and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
]Because of it the ancients were well attested.
]By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
]By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;
]for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.
]By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age--and Sarah herself was sterile--for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy.
]So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
]All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,
]for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.
]If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return.
]But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
]By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,
]of whom it was said, "Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name."
]He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol.

Psalm

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

1,69-70.71-72.73-75.

]He has come to the help of his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
Born of the house of his servant David.
]Through his holy prophets he promised of old
]that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us.
]He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.
]This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
]to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
]holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

4,35-41.

]On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: "Let us cross to the other side."
]Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him.
]A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up.
]Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"
]He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Quiet! Be still!" The wind ceased and there was great calm.
]Then he asked them, "Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?"
]They were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?"

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St. Thomas Aquinas(Priest and Doctor of the Church († 1274) - Memorial)

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS Priest and Doctor of the Church (c. 1225-1274) St. Thomas was born to noble parents in Aquino, Italy. At 19 years old, he received the Dominican habit in Naples where he was studying. St. Thomas' brothers disapproved, seized him while he was on his way to Paris and held him fortwo years' captivity at their castle of Rocca-Secca. Despite the threats and stratagems of his brothers, and the tears and caresses of his mother and sisters, St. Thomas remained steadfast. When St. Thomas was confined at Rocca-Secca, his brothers sent a woman to seduce him. He a burning brand from the hearth and drove the woman from his chambers. He marked a cross on the wall; and while rapt in ecstasy, was girded with a cord by an angel in token of his perpetual chastity. The pain caused was so sharp that St. Thomas uttered a piercing cry, which brought his guards into the room. He never told this grace to any one save Father Raynald, his confessor. This point was the origin of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity for purity and chastity. After escaping, St. Thomas went to Cologne, studied under Blessed Albert the Great and taught philosophy and theology in Paris for many years. The Church venerates St. Thomas' numerous writings as a treasure-house of sacred doctrine. His synthesis of Greek philosophy and Western theology defined truth, nature and substance. Truth is the intellect's conformity to reality; objectively identified and not just subjectively felt. In naming St. Thomas the Angelic Doctor, the Church affirms that his science is more divine than human. Prayer, he said, had taught him more than study. St. Thomas' singular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament shines forth in the Office and hymns for Corpus Christi, which he composed. To the words miraculously uttered by a crucifix in Naples, "Well hast thou written concerning Me, Thomas. What shall I give thee as a reward?" He replied, "Naught save Thyself, O Lord." In fact, God granted him a vision of heaven so vivid that he was rendered speechless and could not write afterward. His life then spoke louder than his words. St. Thomas passed away at Fossa-Nuova in 1274. He was on his way to the General Council of Lyons where Pope Gregory X had summoned him. He is the patron saint of universities and students.

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