Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, July 6 2026

Monday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Hosea

Thus says the LORD: I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart.
She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt.
On that day, says the LORD, She shall call me “My husband,” and never again “My baal.”
I will espouse you to me forever: I will espouse you in right and in justice, in love and in mercy;
I will espouse you in fidelity, and you shall know the LORD.

Psalms

Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable.
Generation after generation praises your works
and proclaims your might.
They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty
and tell of your wondrous works.
They discourse of the power of your terrible deeds
and declare your greatness.
They publish the fame of your abundant goodness
and joyfully sing of your justice.
The LORD is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

While Jesus was speaking, an official came forward, knelt down before him, and said, "My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live."
Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak.
She said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."
Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you." And from that hour the woman was cured.
When Jesus arrived at the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion,
he said, "Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping." And they ridiculed him.
When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand, and the little girl arose.
And news of this spread throughout all that land.

St. Maria Goretti(Virgin and Martyr (1890-1902))

SAINT MARIA GORETTIVirgin and Martyr(1890-1902) St. Maria's family were sharecroppers from Ancone, central Italy. Her father died when she was 9 and she took on the responsibility of raising her 5 siblings while her mother worked. When Maria was only 11 and watching her younger sister, she was approached by Alessandro Serenelli, who threatened to kill her if she would not sleep with him. He had approached her before, but she did not speak out because her mother would have moved the family and they would have been homeless. Maria warned Alessandro that his actions were immoral. When she resisted, he drew a sharpened file and stabbed her 9 times. The stabbing was so violent that the file exited her body on the other side and got bent after striking her spine 3 times. After Alessandro left, Maria crawled outside, but he heard her and stabbed her another 5 times. The surgeons could not use anaesthesia for fear that her heart would fail, so they performed surgery to save her life for several hours. However, the stabbings had punctured her intestines and poisoned her; and she began dying. 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 fourteen white lillies to him, which burned one by one as they touched his hands. Alessandro received the sacrament of reconciliation, approached Maria's mother to ask forgiveness after 27 years in prison and joined the religious. He attended Maria's canonization ceremony in 1950. Miracles have been attributed to Alessandro's 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, most authors agree, was deacon of the Church in Rome. St. Prosper's chronicle informs us that when Agricola, a noted Pelagian, corrupted the churches in Britain, Pope Celestine, at Palladius' insistence, sent thither St. Germanus in 429. St. Germanus was the bishop of Auxerre who ejected 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 a pious youth. After being ordained to the priesthood, he went to Germany. Fr. Goar settled in the neighborhood of Trier and lived in a cell attached to a church. He was often rapt in contemplative prayer. His consul during confessions made him highly sought after. His legacy lives on in his spiritual descendants. When King Sigebert of Austrasia signaled that Fr. Goar should become bishop of Metz, the latter felt that the honors would detract from his mission. He prayed and asked God to be excused. Unexpectedly, he passed away from fever in 575. The town of Sankt Goar is named after him.

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