Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, July 15 2019

Monday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Exodus

1,8-14.22.

]A new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
]He said to his subjects, "Look how numerous and powerful the Israelite people are growing, more so than we ourselves!
]Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase; otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight against us, and so leave our country."
]Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the supply cities of Pithom and Raamses.
]Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread. The Egyptians, then, dreaded the Israelites
]and reduced them to cruel slavery,
]making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick and all kinds of field work--the whole cruel fate of slaves.
]Pharaoh then commanded all his subjects, "Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews, but you may let all the girls live."

Psalm

Psalms

124(123),1-3.4-6.7-8.

]Had not the LORD been with us–
let Israel say, had not the LORD been with us–
]When men rose up against us,
]then would they have swallowed us alive,
When their fury was inflamed against us.  
]Then would the waters have overwhelmed us;
The torrent would have swept over us;
]over us then would have swept the raging waters.
]Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us
a prey to their teeth.  
]We were rescued like a bird
from the fowlers’ snare;
Broken was the snare,
and we were freed.
]Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.

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. 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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