Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, July 6 2018
Friday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Amos
8,4-6.9-12.]Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
]"When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!
]We will buy the lowly man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"
]On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun set at midday and cover the earth with darkness in broad daylight.
]I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentations. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make them mourn as for an only son, and bring their day to a bitter end.
]Yes, days are coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.
]Then shall they wander from sea to sea and rove from the north to the east In search of the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.
Psalms
119(118),2.10.20.30.40.131.]Blessed are they who observe his decrees,
who seek him with all their heart.
]With all my heart I seek you;
let me not stray from your commands.
]My soul is consumed with longing
for your ordinances at all times.
]The way of truth I have chosen;
I have set your ordinances before me.
]Behold, I long for your precepts;
in your justice give me life.
]I gasp with open mouth,
in my yearning for your commands.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
9,9-13.]As Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.
]While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat with Jesus and his disciples.
]The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
]He heard this and said, "Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
]Go and learn the meaning of the words, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' I did not come to call the righteous but sinners."
St. Maria Goretti(Virgin and Martyr (1890-1902))
SAINT MARIA GORETTIVirgin and Martyr(1890-1902) St. Maria was a child when she displayed the courage and sanctity of the greatest saints. She was from a family of sharecroppers in Ancone, central Italy. Her father died when she was 9 years old. She took on the responsibility of raising her 5 siblings while her mother worked. When Maria was 11 years old and watching her younger sister, she was approached by Alessandro Serenelli, who threatened to kill her if she would not have sex with him. He approached her before, but she did not tell her mother fearing the family would move and they would be homeless. When Maria resisted Alessandro, he drew a sharpened file and stabbed her 9 times. The file exited her body on the other side and was bent from striking her spine 3 times. When Alessandro left, Maria crawled outside; but he heard her and stabbed her another 5 times. The surgeons who operated on Maria did not use anaesthesia fearing that her heart would fail. The operation lasted several hours. However, the stabbings had punctured Maria's intestines and were poisoning her. Before dying, she said, "I forgive Alessandro Serenelli and I want him with me in Heaven forever." Six years later, while asleep in solitary confinement, Alessandro saw Maria in a dream. She gave him fourteen white lillies, which burned one by one as they touched his hands. Alessandro received the sacrament of reconciliation. Years later, after being released, he approached Maria's mother and asked forgiveness. He attended Maria's canonization ceremony in 1950. Miracles have been attributed to his intercession and his canonization is imminent. St. Maria is the patron saint of victims, young girls and children.
St. Palladius(Bishop and Apostle of the Scots († c. 450))
SAINT PALLADIUS Bishop, Apostle of the Scots ( c. 432) Palladius was a deacon of the Church in Rome. St. Prosper's chronicle informs us that when Agricola, a noted Pelagian, corrupted the British churches, Pope Celestine, at Palladius' insistence, sent St. Germanus there in 429. St. Germanus was the bishop of Auxerre who removed Pelagianism and brought the Britons back to the Catholic faith. In 431, Pope Celestine sent Palladius, now bishop, to the Scots then believing in Christ. The Irish writers of the lives of St. Patrick say that St. Palladius had preached in Ireland a little before St. Patrick, but that he was banished by the King of Leinster and returned to North Britain where he had first opened his mission. Undoubtedly, he was sent to the whole nation of the Scots, several colonies of which had passed from Ireland into North Britain. After St. Palladius left Ireland, he arrived among the Scots in North Britain (according to St. Prosper) in the consulate of Bassus and Antochius, in the year 431. He preached there zealously and formed a considerable Church. Scottish historians tell us that the Faith was planted in North Britain around the year 200, during the time of King Donald, when Victor was pope. They all acknowledged that Palladius was the first bishop in that country and styled him as their first apostle. Hedied in Fordun, fifteen miles from Aberdeen, about the year 432, only a year after his episcopal consecration.
St. Goar(Priest († 575))
SAINT GOAR Priest ( 575) St. Goar was born in Aquitaine, southwestern France. He received spiritual formation and was pious. After being ordained to the priesthood, he went to Germany. Goar settled in the neighborhood of Trier and lived in a cell attached to a church. He was often rapt in contemplative prayer. His advice during confessions made him highly sought after. His legacy lives on in his spiritual descendants. When King Sigebert of Austrasia nominated Goar as bishop of Metz, the latter prayed to be excused. He felt that honors would detract from his mission. Unexpectedly, he passed away from fever in 575. The town of Sankt Goar is named after him.
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