Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, January 29 2019

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. Gildas the Wise(Abbot (6th century))

SAINT GILDAS THE WISE (or Gildas of Rhuys) Abbot (c. 500-570 or 581) St. Gildas was a 6th-century British monk. His piety and devotion to the Holy Mother of God were thanks to his teachers and spiritual director. He was educated at a British monastery thanks to his noble lineage. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the nameGildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise). As a young man, St. Gildas travelled to Ireland and received formation from St. Patrick's monks. He then led a solitary life in France and founded a monastery in Rhuis near Vannes. He served as the monastery's abbot and guided many soul to perfection. St. Gildas wrote eight canons of discipline and a severe invective against the crimes of the Britons, called De Excidio Britanniae. He also wrote an invective against the British clergy, whom he accused of sloth and seldom sacrificing at the altar. He was a reformer who braved the perils of leading a truthful and righteous life God. St. Gildas passed away in 570 or in 581. He conformed his will and intellect to the Divine and forever experiences the beatific vision of God in Heaven. He is the patron saint of the coastal city of Vannes.

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