Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, July 6 2019
Saturday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
Saturday of the Thirteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Genesis
27,1-5.15-29.]When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "Son!" "Yes, father!" he replied.
]Isaac then said, "As you can see, I am so old that I may now die at any time.
]Take your gear, therefore--your quiver and bow--and go out into the country to hunt some game for me.
]With your catch prepare an appetizing dish for me, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my special blessing before I die."
]Rebekah had been listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. So when Esau went out into the country to hunt some game for his father,
]Rebekah then took the best clothes of her older son Esau that she had in the house, and gave them to her younger son Jacob to wear;
]and with the skins of the kids she covered up his hands and the hairless parts of his neck.
]Then she handed her son Jacob the appetizing dish and the bread she had prepared.
]Bringing them to his father, Jacob said, "Father!" "Yes?" replied Isaac. "Which of my sons are you?"
]Jacob answered his father: "I am Esau, your first-born. I did as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your special blessing."
]But Isaac asked, "How did you succeed so quickly, son?" He answered, "The LORD, your God, let things turn out well with me."
]Isaac then said to Jacob, "Come closer, son, that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not."
]So Jacob moved up closer to his father. When Isaac felt him, he said, "Although the voice is Jacob's, the hands are Esau's."
](He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so in the end he gave him his blessing.)
]Again he asked him, "Are you really my son Esau?" "Certainly," he replied.
]Then Isaac said, "Serve me your game, son, that I may eat of it and then give you my blessing." Jacob served it to him, and Isaac ate; he brought him wine, and he drank.
]Finally his father Isaac said to him, "Come closer, son, and kiss me."
]As Jacob went up and kissed him, Isaac smelled the fragrance of his clothes. With that, he blessed him, saying, "Ah, the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a field that the LORD has blessed!
]"May God give to you of the dew of the heavens And of the fertility of the earth abundance of grain and wine.
]"Let peoples serve you, and nations pay you homage; Be master of your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you."
Psalms
135(134),1-2.3-4.5-6.]Praise the name of the LORD;
Praise, you servants of the LORD
]Who stand in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
]Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, which we love;
]For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
]For I know that the LORD is great;
our LORD is greater than all gods.
]All that the LORD wills he does
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and in all the deeps.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
9,14-17.]The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?"
]Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast."
]No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.
]People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
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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