Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, July 8 2017
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. 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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