Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, July 11 2026

Saturday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Isaiah

In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple.
Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, and with two they hovered aloft.
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!" they cried one to the other. "All the earth is filled with his glory!"
At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke.
Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
He touched my mouth with it. "See," he said, "now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged."
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am," I said; "send me!"

Psalms

The LORD is king, in splendor robed;
robed is the LORD and girt about with strength.
And he has made the world firm,
your throne stands firm from of old;
from everlasting you are, O LORD.
Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed:
holiness befits your house,
O LORD, for length of days.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Jesus said to his Apostles: “No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master.
It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.
What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge.
Even all the hairs of your head are counted.
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.
But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father."

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

SAINT BENEDICTAbbot and Patron of Europe(c. 480-547) St. Benedict was born to a noble Italian family around 480. He was sent to public school in Rome, but retreated to Subiaco's moutains after witnessing the Roman youths' licentiousness. Divine providence guided him to a deep cave, where he made his abode. Benedict lived in Subiaco for three years unbeknownst to everyone except Romanus, a holy monk who fed Benedict and clothed him with the monastic habit. Benedict discerned God's will through vigils, listening and meditation. He meditated on the mystery of death, and his faith-expression was unique in that sense. As the abbot of a monastery, Benedict's guidance was rigorous, but blessed. One of his disaffected disciples mixed poison into his drink; and when Benedict made the sign of the cross over it, the vessel shattered. This miracle was one of many during his life. After building twelve monasteries in Subiaco, 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 institute's activity diffused Christendom throughout Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire, with the result that works of Western civilization were preserved and propagated and monasteries became centers of higher education and learning. Guided by the will of God through prayer, Benedict wrought miracles, saw visions and prophesied. He raised a dead man's son to life. Alban Butler narrates: "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 Benedict during life, how much more will God listen when Benedict sees Him face to face? Six days before his death, Benedict ordered his grave to be opened; and he fell ill with fever. On the sixth day, he 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 Benedict the patron of Europe on October 24, 1964 (Apostolic Letter: Pacis nuntius).

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