Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, July 11 2017

Tuesday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Genesis

32,23-33.

]In the course of the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives, with the two maidservants and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
]After he had taken them across the stream and had brought over all his possessions,
]Jacob was left there alone. Then some man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
]When the man saw that he could not prevail over him, he struck Jacob's hip at its socket, so that the hip socket was wrenched as they wrestled.
]The man then said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go until you bless me."
]"What is your name?" the man asked. He answered, "Jacob."
]Then the man said, "You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed."
]Jacob then asked him, "Do tell me your name, please." He answered, "Why should you want to know my name?" With that, he bade him farewell.
]Jacob named the place Peniel, "Because I have seen God face to face," he said, "yet my life has been spared."
]At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.
]That is why, to this day, the Israelites do not eat the sciatic muscle that is on the hip socket, inasmuch as Jacob's hip socket was struck at the sciatic muscle.

Psalm

Psalms

17(16),1.2-3.6-7.8b.15.

]Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
]From you let my judgment come;
Your eyes behold what is right.
]Though you test my heart, searching it in the night,
though you try me with fire, you shall find no malice in me.
]I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
]Show your wondrous mercies,
O savior of those who flee from their foes
]Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
]I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking I shall be content in your presence.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

9,32-38.

]A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus,
]and when the demon was driven out the mute person spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel."
]But the Pharisees said, "He drives out demons by the prince of demons."
]Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness.
]At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.
]Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
]so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest."

---

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).

misalcatolico.com

---

Category: Mass by Year / Catholic Missal 2017 / Catholic Missal of july 2017