Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, July 15 2016

Friday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

38,1-6.21-22.7-8.

]In those days, when Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: "Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover."
]Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD:
]"O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was pleasing to you!" And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
]Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
]"Go, tell Hezekiah: Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you: in three days you shall go up to the LORD'S temple; I will add fifteen years to your life.
]I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city."
]Isaiah then ordered a poultice of figs to be taken and applied to the boil, that he might recover.
]Then Hezekiah asked, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of the LORD?"
](Isaiah answered:) "This will be the sign for you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised:
]See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz go back the ten steps it has advanced." So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.

Psalm

Book of Isaiah

38,10.11.12abcd.16.

]Once I said,
"In the noontime of life I must depart!
To the gates of the nether world I shall be consigned
for the rest of my years."
]I said, "I shall see the LORD no more
in the land of the living.
No longer shall I behold my fellow men
among those who dwell in the world."
]My dwelling, like a shepherd's tent,
]is struck down and borne away from me;
]You have folded up my life, like a weaver
]who severs the last thread.
]Those live whom the LORD protects;
Yours is the life of my spirit.
You have given me health and life.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

12,1-8.

]Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
]When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
]He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry,
]how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?
]Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?
]I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
]If you knew what this meant, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned these innocent men.
]For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

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St. Bonaventure(Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1218-1274))

Saint Bonaventure Bishop and Doctor of the Church (1218-1274) St. Bonaventure is known as the Seraphic Doctor. His writings on divine love illuminate the intellectual ascent from knowledge to faith. The supernatural virtues grow by effort, up to the heart, mind and soul's mystical union with God.St. Francis of Assisi gave him his name after curing him of a mortal sickness, exclaiming, "O bona ventura! (O good luck)" St. Bonaventure's friendship with St. Thomas Aquinas motivated his use of philosophy to understand the human heart and existentialism, which searches for perfect happiness only found in God. When St. Thomas asked him the source of his learning, he pointed to the cross. Another time, St. Thomas found him in ecstatic union with God while writing St. Francis of Assisi's biography. He exclaimed, "Let us leave a Saint to write of a Saint." They received the doctor's cap together. St. Bonaventure was the guest and adviser of St. Louis and the director of St. Isabella, the king's sister. At the age of 35, in 1257, he was elected general of his order. He only escaped another dignity, the Archbishopric of York, by resigning. Pope Gregory X eventually appointed him cardinal bishop of Albano. At heart, he was always a Franciscan: practicing humility and disinterested love. Before attending the Council of Lyons, St. Bonaventure stopped to rest at a Franciscan monastery near Florence. Two papal messengers met him with the cardinal's hat and found him washing dishes. He asked them to hold the hat until he finished. At the Council, St. Bonaventure's contributions effected the union of Latin and Greek churches. Soon after, he died of natural causes. He passed away whilethe Council was sitting and was interred by the assembled bishops in 1274. He is the patron saint of bowel disorders, having been cured during childhood by St. Francis of Assisi.

Oración

All-powerful Father,
may we who celebrate the feast of Saint Bonaventure
always benefit from his wisdom and follow the example of his love.
[The Weekday Missal (1975)]

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