Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, July 20 2016

Wednesday of the Sixteenth week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Sixteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Jeremiah

1,1.4-10.

]The words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of a priestly family in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
]The word of the LORD came to me thus:
]Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.
]"Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "I know not how to speak; I am too young."
]But the LORD answered me, Say not, "I am too young." To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak.
]Have no fear before them, because I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.
]Then the LORD extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying, See, I place my words in your mouth!
]This day I set you over nations and over kingdoms, To root up and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.

Psalm

Psalms

71(70),1-2.3-4a.5-6ab.15ab.17.

]In you, LORD, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
]In your justice rescue and deliver me;
incline your ear to me, and save me.
]Be my rock of refuge,
a stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
]O my God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked.
]For you are my hope, O Lord;
my trust, O God, from my youth.
]On you I depend from birth;
]from my mother's womb you are my strength.
]My mouth shall declare your justice,
]day by day your salvation.
]O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

13,1-9.

]On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea.
]Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.
]And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow.
]And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up.
]Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,
]and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots.
]Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.
]But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
]Whoever has ears ought to hear."

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St. Apollinaris(Bishop and Martyr (1st century))

SAINT APOLLINARISBishop and Martyr(1st century) St. Apollinaris was the first bishop of Ravenna. He was consecrated by St. Peter and sat twenty years. He survived persecutions up to the reign of Emperor Vespasian. St. Peter Chrysologus, one of St. Apollinaris' successors, gave us this account of him: "Though he frequently suffered for the Faith and ardently desired to lay down his life for Christ, God preserved Apollinaris a long time and did not allow the persecutors to take his life." St. Apollinaris is considered a martyr because he suffered multiple persecutions. St. Apollinaris' relics were enshrined first in Classis, four miles from Ravenna: a kind of suburb to the city and its seaport. In 549, his relics were moved to a more secret vault in the same church. St. Fortunatus urged his friends to make pilgrimages there, and St. Gregory the Great ordered parties in doubtful suits to be sworn before it. In 630, Pope Honorius built and dedicated a church to St. Apollinaris in Rome. St. Apollinaris is celebrated in all the martyrologies. He is invoked as an intercessor and a help against evil.

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St. Margaret of Antioch(Virgin and Martyr (3rd century))

SAINT MARGARET OF ANTIOCHVirgin and Martyr(3rd century) According to the ancient martyrologies, St. Margaret suffered in Antioch, Pisidia, during the last general persecution. She had been instructed in the Faith by a Christian nurse and was killed by her father, a pagan priest. Her veneration was propagated in England, France and Germany. The twelfth century saw an increase in hercult because of Islamic invasions in Edessa and Spain (Surah 9:29, Sahih al-Bukhari 6924, At-Tabari Volume VI). Her relics are kept in Monte-Fiascone, Tuscany, central Italy.

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St. Kunigunde()

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