Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, July 7 2019
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Isaiah
66,10-14.]Thus says the LORD: Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; Exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over her!
]Oh, that you may suck fully of the milk of her comfort, That you may nurse with delight at her abundant breasts!
]For thus says the LORD: Lo, I will spread prosperity over her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms, and fondled in her lap;
]As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you; in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.
]When you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bodies flourish like the grass; The LORD'S power shall be known to his servants.
Psalms
66(65),1-3.4-5.6-7.16.20.]Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
]sing praise to the glory of his name;
proclaim his glorious praise.
]Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
]“Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you,
sing praise to your name!”
]Come and see the works of God,
his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
]He has changed the sea into dry land;
through the river they passed on foot;
therefore let us rejoice in him.
]He rules by his might forever.
]Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
]Blessed be God who refused me not
my prayer or his kindness!
Letter to the Galatians
6,14-18.]Brothers and sisters: may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
]For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation.
]Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule and to the Israel of God.
]From now on, let no one make troubles for me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.
]The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
10,1-12.17-20.]The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.
]He said to them, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.
]Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
]Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way.
]Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this household.'
]If a peaceful person lives there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
]Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you, for the laborer deserves his payment. Do not move about from one house to another.
]Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you,
]cure the sick in it and say to them, 'The kingdom of God is at hand for you.'"
]Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say,
]'The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.' Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
]I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.
]The seventy (-two) returned rejoicing, and said, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name."
]Jesus said, "I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
]Behold, I have given you the power 'to tread upon serpents' and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.
]Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
St. Pantaenus(Father of the Church († c. 216))
SAINT PANTÆNUS Father of the Church ( c. 216) Saint Pantænus was born during the second century. He was Sicilian who taught stoicism. He befriended Christians because of their innocence, joyfulness and disinterested love. Soon, he received faith in Jesus through their prayers and witness. Pantænus studied Holy Scripture under the apostles' disciples. He went to Alexandria in Egypt where the disciples of St. Mark founded a school of Christian doctrine. Pantænus' great progress merited his appointment as head of the Christian school around the year 179. He revitalized and expanded the institute, which stood out amid the schools of philosophy. He and his successors formed Chrstian thought on the Trinity, disproved gnostic heresy and disseminated Christianity throughout the Hellenistic world. The Indians who traded in Alexandria entreated Pantænus to visit their country, so he left and preached the Gospel in the East. He found some seeds of the faith already sown in the Indies and a book of the Gospel of St. Matthew written in Hebrew, carried there by St. Bartholomew. He brought the book with him to Alexandria after several years. He continued teaching in private until around the year 216 when he closed a noble life with a happy death.
Bl. María Romero Meneses(Religious (1902-1977))
BLESSED MARÍA ROMERO MENESES Salesian Sister (1902-1977) Blessed María Romero Meneses was a SalesianSister who is popularly known as the Social Apostle of Costa Rica. She was born in Granada, Nicaragua, on January 13, 1902. In Costa Rica, María was a social apostle through multiple initiatives for the poor. She started with teaching catechism and vocational skills and finished with a medical center, a school for the Church's social doctrine and seven housing communities for poor families. María was one of eight children from an upper class family. She was educated by her aunts and parents, studied drawing and painting and played the piano and violin. She was also enrolled at the Salesian Sisters' school. When she was 12 years old, she fell ill with rheumatic fever that paralyzed her for six months. It was a source of trial and suffering that made her miss a year at herbeloved school. During her trial, she already showed a mature faith, character and will. She called her sufferings "gifts of God." When a doctor informed her that her heart had been seriously damaged, she did not complain, but put her confidence for a complete recovery in Our Lady, Help of Christians. To a school friend who visited her, she said, "I know that the Blessed Virgin will cure me." A few days later, she returned to school in good health. On December 8, 1915, María joined the Marian association "Daughters of Mary." She offered herself with great confidence to the Mother of God. The Salesian spiritual director Don Emilio Bottari helped her discern a vocation and recorded her mystical experiences. In 1920, at age of 18, María joined the Daughters of Mary. Fr. Emilio Bottari gave her a prophetic recommendation: "Even though difficult moments will come and you will feel torn to pieces, be faithful and strong in your vocation." For María, these words sustained her for the rest of her life. On January 6, 1929, in Nicaragua, María made her final profession. Her interior life unfolded as each day she strived to live in joyful union with God as His instrument, after the example of Don Bosco, which she described in her spiritual writings. In 1931, she was sent to San José, Costa Rica, which became her second country. In 1933, she was teaching music, drawing and typing to wealthy girls at the school and catechetics and practical trades in the barrios. In 1934, she began winning over young girls who were her students (misioneritas) to join her in the work of evangelizing and catechizing. She discovered that her life's work was inspiring the have's to help the have-not's. In 1945,María began establishing community recreational centers. In 1953, she had centers for food distribution. In 1961, she opened a casita: a school for poor girls. In 1966, she opened a (again) nonprofit clinic, where God's Providence helped her with the volunteer services of doctors and donations of medicines. María then planned a village housing for communities. On a piece of land outside the city, in 1973, the first seven homes were built in the Centro San José. It was followed by a farm, a market and school space for religious formation, catechesis and job training. There was also a church dedicated to Our Lady, Help of Christians. María always joined love and devotion to the Eucharist with Mary and Her social apostolate. María was very "limited" in terms of available funding, but with total confidence, she always left everything in the hands of Our Lady. In her later years, she retired from full time teaching, but continued catechesis. On July 7, 1977, in Leon, Nicaragua, at the Salesian house where she had been sent to rest, she suffered a fatal heart attack. She was 75 years old. Her remains were sent to San José, Costa Rica, and buried at the Salesian Chapel. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 14, 2002.
Bl. Ralph Milner & Roger Dickenson(Martyrs († 1591))
Bl. Ralph Milner & Fr. Roger DickensonBritish MartyrsThese two men lived in England at a time when practicing one’s Catholic faith meant imprisonment and possible execution. Ralph Milner was an elderly, illiterate farmer and a father of eight children. He was from Flacstead, Hampshire. He was raised Protestant, but was so impressed by his Catholic neighbors that he received catechism and baptism. On the day of his First Communion, he was arrested for changing his religion and was imprisoned at the Winchester jail.Farmer Milner’s behavior in prison was such that he gained the respect and trust of the prison guards and was granted frequent parole. He came and went at will: seeing to the spiritual and temporal needs of his fellow prisoners and aiding and escorting undercover Catholic priests. He thus met the secular priest, Father Roger Dickenson (sometimes spelled Dicconsen).Father Dickenson was a native of Lincoln who had studied for the priesthood in Rheims, France. In 1583, he was sent on a mission to England and was imprisoned, but managed to escape his drunken guards. He was not so fortunate a second time and was arrested with Ralph Milner, who had been escorting him around the local villages. The two were put under close confinement at the Winchester jail. Father Dickenson was charged with the crime of being a Catholic priest and Ralph Milner for aiding him.During their trial, the judge pitied Ralph Milner and made several attempts to set him free, urging him to merely visit a Protestant church as a matter of form. Since to Ralph Milner this would have been tantamount to renouncing his new-found Faith, he refused, saying that he could not “embrace a counsel so disagreeable to the maxims of the gospel.”On July 7, 1591, the day of execution, Ralph Milner’s children were escorted to the gallows. They begged him to renounce his Faith and so save his life, but again he refused. He gave them his final blessing, declaring that “he could wish them no greater happiness than to die for the like cause.” The two men were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Witnesses said they faced their deaths calmly and courageously.
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