Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, July 30 2018

Monday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Jeremiah

13,1-11.

]The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
]I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on.
]A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus:
]Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cleft of the rock.
]Obedient to the LORD'S command, I went to the Parath and buried the loincloth.
]After a long interval, he said to me: Go now to the Parath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
]Again I went to the Parath, sought out and took the loincloth from the place where I had hid it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!
]Then the message came to me from the LORD:
]Thus says the LORD: So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem.
]This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts, and follow strange gods to serve and adore them, shall be like this loincloth which is good for nothing.
]For, as close as the loincloth clings to a man's loins, so had I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD; to be my people, my renown, my praise, my beauty. But they did not listen.

Psalm

Book of Deuteronomy

32,18-19.20.21.

]You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
]When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing
and anger toward his sons and daughters.  
]"I will hide my face from them," he said,
"and see what will then become of them.
What a fickle race they are,
sons with no loyalty in them!"
]"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god'
and angered me with their vain idols,
I will provoke them with a 'no-people';
with a foolish nation I will anger them."

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

13,31-35.

]Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field.
]It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"
]He spoke to them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."
]All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables,
]to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world."

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St. Peter Chrysologus(Bishop and Doctor of the Church (406-450))

SAINT PETER CHRYSOLOGUSBishop and Doctor of the Church(406-450) Born around 400 A.D., St. Peter Chrysologus was the bishop of Ravenna. He was a powerful preacher and was named Chrysologus, which means "golden-worded." More than 180 of his sermons have survived regarding scripture and the liturgical year.

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St. Germanus(Bishop († 448))

ST. GERMANUS Bishop ( 448) St. Germanus did not appear he would become a saint. He was a nobleman who practiced law in Rome. He was awarded a high rank in the army by the emperor and his singular passion was hunting. However, the bishop of Auxerre saw that Germanus would become his successor and gave the latter the tonsure almost by force. Afterward, Germanus became another man. He gave his lands to the Church and took up a life of humble penance. At the time, the Pelagian heresy in England was distorting the Faith. The pope chose St. Germanus and St. Lupus to convert the Angles. When they were near Verulam, they encountered and converted a group of pelagians. St. Germanus credited this act to the intercession of Mother Mary; with St. Alban offering thanks at Our Lady's shrine. Once a brave soldier, St. Germanus won over the Picts and Scots to complete conversion in a bloodless victory. Crying Alleluia, St. Germanus and the newly-baptized Britons routed their enemies and spared them. No massacre or killing took place. Afterward, St. Germanus visited England a second time with St. Severus. St. Germanus passed away in 448 while interceding before the emperor on behalf of the Britons. He continues interceding in Heaven, where he lives and reigns with Jesus Christ forever.

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