Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, July 11 2016

Monday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

1,10-17.

]Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!
]What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.
]When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you?
]Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies, octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear.
]Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load.
]When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood!
]Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil;
]learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow.

Psalm

Psalms

50(49),8-9.16bc-17.21.23.

]"Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
for your burnt offerings are before me always.
]I take from your house no bullock,
no goats out of your fold."
]"Why do you recite my statutes,
]and profess my covenant with your mouth,
]Though you hate discipline
and cast my words behind you?"
]"When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?
Or do you think that I am like yourself?
I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.  
]He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;
and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.”

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

10,34-42.11,1.

]Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
]For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
]and one's enemies will be those of his household.'
]Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
]and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.
]Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
]Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
]Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man's reward.
]And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple--amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward."
]When Jesus finished giving these commands to his twelve disciples, he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns.

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St. Benedict(Abbot and Patron of Europe (c. 480-547))

SAINT BENEDICTAbbot and Patron of Europe(c. 480-547) St. Benedict was an Italian nobleman. He attended public school in Rome, but withdrew to Subiaco's moutains after witnessing the Roman youths' licentiousness. Divine providence guided him to the deep cave where he made his abode. St. Benedict lived in Subiaco for three years unbeknownst to everyone except Romanus, a holy monk. The latter awarded St. Benedict the monastic habit. St. Benedict discerned God's will through vigils, listening and meditation. He meditated on the mystery of death, which made his faith-expression unique. As the abbot of a monastery, St. Benedict's guidance was rigorous, but blessed. When a disaffected disciple mixed poison into his drink, he made the sign of the cross over it and the vessel shattered. This miracle was one of many during his life. After building twelve monasteries in Subiaco, St. Benedict founded an abbey in Monte Casino and wrote his Benedictine Rule. His rule and monasteries are widely regarded as the progenitor of Western monasticism. The institutes diffused Christendom throughout Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire, with the result that works of Western Civilization were preserved and monasteries became centers of higher education. Guided by the will of God through prayer, St. Benedict wrought miracles, saw visions and prophesied. He once raised a dead boy to life. Alban Butler wrote: "Once, a peasant whose son had died ran to him crying, 'Give me back my son!' Benedict replied, 'Such miracles are not for me to work, but for the blessed apostles. Why would you lay a burden upon me that my weakness cannot bear?' Moved at length by compassion, Benedict knelt and prostrated himself. Rising, he said in a loud voice, 'Behold not, O Lord, my sins, but the faith of this man who desires the life of his son, and restore to the body that soul which you have taken.' Hardly had he spoken when the child's body trembled. Taking the child's hand, Benedict gave him alive to his father." If God listened to St. Benedict in life, how much more will God listen when they meet face to face? Six days before his death, St. Benedict ordered his grave to be opened. He fell ill with a fever and requested to be borne to the chapel. After receiving the Eucharist with hands uplifted and leaning on one of his disciples, he calmly passed away on March 21, 547.Pope Paul VI proclaimed St. Benedict the patron of Europe on October 24, 1964 (Apostolic Letter: Pacis nuntius).

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