Monday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

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.

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.”

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 (c. 480-547), Patron of Europe)

SAINT BENEDICTAbbot(c. 480-547) St. Benedict, blessed by grace and in name, was born to a noble Italian family about 480. When a boy, he was sent to Rome and placed in public school. Scared by the licentiousness of the Roman youth, he fled to the desert mountains of Subiaco, where the Holy Spirit guided him to a deep cave. There, he lived contemplating Jesus' life through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He remained there for three years unknown to anyone except Romanus, a holy monk who brought him food and clothed him with a monastic habit. Apprehinding the divine will through vigil, listening and meditating on the mystery of death, Fr. Benedict expressed the true faith in a unique way, thus becoming the father of Western monasticism. Benedict's commitment to his monastic vocation saw him become the abbot of a monastery. As the mirror of Christ, he reflected the image of God to everyone he met. In time, Fr. Benedict had many disciples. Unfortunately, some monks became disenchanted, and reviled Benedict for his inspired but rigorous guidance. In retaliation, one of the monks mixed poison with the Abbot's drink. When Fr. Benedict made the sign of the cross over the poisoned bowl, it broke and fell to the ground in pieces. This was one of many miracles which accompanied Benedict throughout his life. After building twelve monasteries at Subiaco, Fr. Benedict removed to Monte Casino, where he founded an abbey and wrote his Benedictine Rule. Guided by the will of God through prayer, Fr. Benedict was remarkably prudent. Leaning upon the will of God, he wrought miracles, saw visions and prophesied. A peasant, whose son had died, ran to Fr. Benedict crying, "Give me back my son!" The Abbott replied, "Such miracles are not for me to work, but for the blessed apostles. Why will you lay a burden upon me which my weakness cannot bear?" Moved at length by compassion, Fr. Benedict knelt and prostrated himself upon the dead child. 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 began to tremble, and taking the child's hand, Benedict gave him alive to his father.If God so listened to Fr. Benedict during his life, how much more will God act when St. Benedict sees the Blessed One in heaven face to face? Six days before his death, Fr. Benedict ordered his grave to be opened, and then fell ill of a fever. On the sixth day, he requested to be borne to the chapel. After receiving the body and blood of Christ with hands uplifted, leaning on one of his disciples, he calmly passed away on the 21st of March 547.Pope Paul VI proclaimed Benedict patron of Europe on October 24, 1964 (Apostolic Letter: Pacis nuntius).Excerpts from Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

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