Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, July 8 2016
Friday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Hosea
14,2-10.]Thus says the LORD: Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt.
]Take with you words, and return to the LORD; Say to him, "Forgive all iniquity, and receive what is good, that we may render as offerings the bullocks from our stalls.
]Assyria will not save us, nor shall we have horses to mount; We shall say no more, 'Our god,' to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion."
]I will heal their defection, I will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them.
]I will be like the dew for Israel: he shall blossom like the lily; He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar,
]and put forth his shoots. His splendor shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.
]Again they shall dwell in his shade and raise grain; They shall blossom like the vine, and his fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
]Ephraim! What more has he to do with idols? I have humbled him, but I will prosper him. "I am like a verdant cypress tree"-- Because of me you bear fruit!
]Let him who is wise understand these things; let him who is prudent know them. Straight are the paths of the LORD, in them the just walk, but sinners stumble in them.
Psalms
51(50),3-4.8-9.12-13.14.17.]Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
]Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
]Behold, you are pleased with sincerity of heart,
and in my inmost being you teach me wisdom.
]Cleanse me of sin with hyssop, that I may be purified;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
]A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
]Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
]Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
]O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
10,16-23.]Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.
]But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues,
]and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans.
]When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say.
]For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
]Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
]You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved."
]When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
St. Edgar the Peaceful(King (c. 943-975))
SAINT EDGAR THE PEACEFULKING OF ENGLAND(c. 943-975) King Edgar is regarded as the first ruler of a consolidated England. During his reign, he did not wage war, but instead enshrined laws that formed the basis of governance for kings. He was the father of St. Edward the Martyr. King Edgar was the great-grandson of Alfred the Great. He was bornto King Edmund the Magnificent and St. Elfgiva. When England's nobles supported Edgar rather than his despotic brother, he did not instigate a war. He was crowned upon his brother's passing, to the acclamation of all the British; and thus became England's king. King Edgar did not wage war upon the Danes and instead enacted peace treaties. He instituted laws protecting human rights that were accepted and promulgated beginning in Oxford. His successors continued abiding by the laws that established and corrected the monarchy as an institution. His policies also reformed England's economy. King Edgar is responsible for England's monastic revival. He took St. Dunstan as his trusted councilor and enforced clerical celibacy. They brought the Benedictine rule to England and reformed the clergy. King Edgar was a reformer, beloved by Christians, and a noble king.He is the patron saint of Glastonbury.
Bl. Peter Vigne(Priest (1670-1740))
PETER VIGNE Priest (1670-1740) Peter Vigne was born on August 20, 1670, in Privas, France. It was a small town still feeling effects of the previous century's Wars of Religion. Peter's father, Peter Vigne, was a textile merchant who married Frances Gautier in the Catholic Church. Their five children were baptized in the parish of Saint Thomas. Sadly, two daughters passed away during infancy. Peter and his two older siblings, John-Francis and Eleonore, lived with their parents in relative comfort.When Peter was 11 years old, he was chosen by the parish priest to sign the parish register for baptisms, marriages and deaths. During adolescence, Peter's life was transformed by a new awareness of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. This experience led him to center his life on Jesus, who always offers Himself. In 1690, Peter entered the Sulpician Seminary in Viviers. He received holy orders on September 18, 1694, in Bourg Saint Andeol. He was sent as curate to Saint-Agreve and exercised his priestly ministry for six years alongside the parish priest. With docility to the Holy Spirit, Peter discerned his specific calling. With understandable hesitancy in the beginning, and then with increasing certitude, he pursued his spiritual itinerary along new paths. His desire to work as a missionary among the poor was central to his decision to join the Vincentians in Lyon in 1700. He received further formation in spiritual poverty and conducting "popular missions." To carry out their apostolic ministry, Peter and his fellow priests began visiting towns and villages. In 1706, he left the Vincentians for an even more efficacious way to serve the poor. His vocation took shape as he became "itinerant missionary," applying his own pastoral methods while submitting his ministry to the authorization of his hierarchical superiors. For more than thirty years, Peter travelled on foot and on horseback to Vivarais and Dauphiné, and even further. He faced the fatigue of being constantly on the move as well as severe weather. He preached, visited the sick, catechised children and administered the sacraments - even going as far as carrying his confessional on his back. He celebrated Mass, exposed the Blessed Sacrament and taught the faithful the prayers of adoration. Mary, "Beautiful Tabernacle of God among men," was also given a place of honor in his prayer and teaching. In 1712, Peter came to Boucieu-le-Roi, where the terrain favored the paving of a Way of the Cross. With the help of parishioners, he constructed 39 stations throughout the village and countryside and taught the faithful to follow Jesus from the Upper Room to Easter and Pentecost. He also gathered together women who assisted pilgrims along the Way of the Cross. In Boucieu-le-Roi, Peter founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. On November 30, 1715, he gave them the cross and the religious habit. He invited them to continuously adore Jesus present in the Eucharist and to live together in fellowship. Anxious to instruct the youth, he also opened schools and a training school for teachers. Peter met and was supported by his former seminary tutors in Lyon: the priests of Saint Sulpice, in addition to a confessor and a spiritual director. He was also drawn by the eucharistic spirituality of the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by Monsignor d'Authier de Sisgaud. Peter was accepted as an associate member of this society of priests on January 25, 1724, in Valence, and benefited from their spiritual and temporal help. Peter continued his apostolic works while accompanying the young Congregation. To share the fruits of his missions, he wrote books: rules to live by and works of spirituality, especially the one entitled "Meditations on the most beautiful book, Jesus Christ suffering and dying on the Cross." His physical sacrifices during pilgrimages, the demands of his apostolic activities, the long hours he spent in adoration and his life of poverty bear witness to a living love for Jesus Christ. At 70 years old, work-related exhaustion cut short Fr. Peter's preaching during a mission in Rencurel, in the Vercors mountains. Feeling his life was at an end, he prayed and reflected. A priest and two sisters came in haste to accompany him in his final moments. On July 8, 1740, he passed away. His body was taken back to its final resting place at the little church in Boucieu.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 3, 2004.
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