Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, July 21 2018
Saturday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time
Saturday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Micah
2,1-5.]Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power.
]They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance.
]Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of evil.
]On that day a satire shall be sung over you, and there shall be a plaintive chant: "Our ruin is complete, our fields are portioned out among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!"
]Thus you shall have no one to mark out boundaries by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Psalms
9(9B),1-2.3-4.7-8.14.]Why, O LORD, do you stand aloof?
Why hide in times of distress?
]Proudly the wicked harass the afflicted,
who are caught in the devices the wicked have contrived.
]For the wicked man glories in his greed,
and the covetous blasphemes, sets the LORD at nought.
]The wicked man boasts, "He will not avenge it";
"There is no God," sums up his thoughts.
]His mouth is full of cursing, guile and deceit;
under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
]He lurks in ambush near the villages;
in hiding he murders the innocent;
his eyes spy upon the unfortunate.
]You do see, for you behold misery and sorrow,
taking them in your hands.
On you the unfortunate man depends;
of the fatherless you are the helper.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
12,14-21.]The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
]When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many (people) followed him, and he cured them all,
]but he warned them not to make him known.
]This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Isaiah the prophet:
]"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
]He will not contend or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
]A bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory.
]And in his name the Gentiles will hope."
St. Lawrence of Brindisi(Priest and Doctor of the Church (1559-1619))
SAINT LAWRENCE OF BRINDISIPriest and Doctor of the Church(1559-1619) Saint Lawrence championed Marian doctrine and stopped an Islamic invasion of Europe. While Ottoman Turks waged jihad and enslaved Christians, and Protestantism caused disunity, St. Lawrence unified German and European leaders and founded religious communities. His writings and response to Protestant challenges led the Church forward through history. St. Lawrence was born on July 22, 1559, to William and Elizabeth Russo. After his parents' untimely passing, he was educated by his uncle at the College of St. Mark in Venice. Aside from his native Neapolitan, he was fluent in Latin, Hebrew, Greek, German, Bohemian, Spanish and French. He entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order in Venice and received his religious name at 16 years old. He completed his studies at the University of Padua, was ordained a priest at 23 and preached to Jews at Pope Clement's request. At 31 years old, St. Lawrence was elected major superior of the Capuchin Franciscan province of Tuscany. He was promoted to minister general in 1602, expanded the Order and defended Marian doctrine. He forged alliances and was called to preach a crusade against Ottoman armies invading Europe. Ottoman armies captured the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár in the 16th century and used it to launch invasions of Europe. St. Lawrence forged alliances among German nobles and helped raise armies to retake the city. When the seige to retake the city stalled, St. Lawrence, dressed in his friar's robe and holding a Rosary, clutched the army's standard and marched into battle crying, "Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands!" At St. Lawrence's charge, the united Christians surged forward and cast down their enemies. After the battle, St. Lawrence was summoned to negotiate peace between Spain and his native kingdom of Naples. After visiting the king of Spain in Lisbon, a serious illness took his life in 1619. In 1956, the Capuchins completed a fifteen-volume edition of his writings. Eleven of those fifteen contain his sermons as well as scriptural quotations to illustrate the teachings.Quote: “God is love, and all his operations proceed from love. Once he wills to manifest that goodness by sharing his love outside himself, then the Incarnation becomes the supreme manifestation of his goodness and love and glory. So, Christ was intended before all other creatures and for his own sake. For him all things were created and to him all things must be subject, and God loves all creatures in and because of Christ. Christ is the first-born of every creature, and the whole of humanity as well as the created world finds its foundation and meaning in him. Moreover, this would have been the case even if Adam had not sinned” (St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor of the Universal Church, Capuchin Educational Conference, Washington, D.C.).
St. Victor(Martyr (3rd century))
SAINT VICTOR Martyr(3rd century) Emperor Maximian martyred the Thebæan legion and many others before arriving in Marseilles. Against this backdrop, Victor, a Christian officer in the Roman army, visited and encouraged the faithful. When his Christian identity was discovered, he was arrested and tried in court by prefects Asterius and Eutychius. When the prefects goaded him to apostatize, he refused. After his witnessing, a mob dragged him through the streets before bringing him back for sentencing. Victor was stretched on a rack and his limbs were disjointed. Afterward, he was imprisoned. At midnight, God's Holy Angels visited him and filled the prison with light. Three soldiers present cast themselves at Victor's feet and asked for pardon and baptism. He instructed them, had them baptized by priests at the seaside and returned with them to prison. The next morning, Maximian was informed of the guards' conversion and had them beheaded. Victor was tortured once again. Three days later, he was summoned before a tribunal and commanded to offer incense to a statue of Jupiter. Allegedly, Victor kicked the statue and toppled it. The emperor then ordered Victor's foot to be chopped off. Victor was afterward put under a hand-mill's grindstone. Miraculously, the mill broke every time the executioner bruised or crushed a part of his body. Victor still breathed a little, but was then beheaded. St. Victor's body was thrown into the sea, but was later cast ashore and buried by the Christians in a grotto hewn out of rock. His heroic life attests to the action of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies and gives life. The martyrs' witness encourages us to speak with others about our faith.
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