Friday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Hosea

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

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

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 (c.943-975)()

SAINT EDGAR THE PEACEFULKING OF ENGLAND(c.943 - 975) Although few people have heard of him, King Edgar is regarded as the first ruler of a consolidated England. Father of St. Edward the Martyr and great-grandson of Alfred the Great, Edgar was born to King Edmund the Magnificent and St. Elfgiva. He was efficient, peaceful and tolerant of local customs. He supported his friend St. Dunstan, who served as his counselor. England underwent a religious revival in his reign, and he is venerated at Glastonbury.

Bl. Peter Vigne(Priest (1670-1740))

PETER VIGNE Priest (1670-1740) Peter Vigne was born August 20 1670 in Privas, France, a small town still feeling the effects of the Wars of Religion from the previous century. His father, Peter Vigne, a honest textile merchant, and his mother, Frances Gautier, married in the Catholic Church and had their five children baptised in the parish of Saint Thomas. Two daughters died in infancy. Peter and his two older siblings, John-Francis and Eleonore, lived with their parents in relative comfort.When he was 11 years old, Peter was chosen by the Parish Priest to act as a witness, signing the parish register for Baptisms, Marriages or Deaths. After completing his education, Peter's life was transformed during adolescence by a new awareness of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. This experience led him to center his life on Jesus, who offered himself on the Cross for love of us, and in the Eucharist, never ceases to give himself to all men. In 1690, he entered the Sulpician Seminary in Viviers. Ordained a priest on September 18, 1694 in Bourg Saint Andeol by the Bishop of Viviers, he was sent as curate to Saint-Agreve. There, he he exercised his priestly ministry for six years alongside the Parish Priest. Always prudent in discerning God's will, Fr. Peter felt called elsewhere. 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. There, he received a solid formation in poverty and in conducting "popular missions"; and with his fellow priests began visiting towns and villages in the work of evangelization. In 1706, he left the Vincentians of his own free will, but possessed an even greater passion for the salvation of souls, especially for the poor people in the countryside. After a period of searching, his vocation took shape with increasing clarity. He became an "itinerant missionary," applying his own pastoral methods, whilst submitting his ministry to the authorization of his hierarchical superiors. For more than thirty years, he travelled on foot or on horseback to Vivarais and Dauphiné and even further. He faced the fatigue of being constantly on the move as well as severe weather in order to make Jesus known and loved. He preached, visited the sick, catechised the children and administered the sacraments; even going as far as carrying his confessional on his back, ready at all times to celebrate and bestow the Mercy of God. He celebrated Mass, exposed the Blessed Sacrament and taught the faithful the prayer of Adoration. Mary, "Beautiful Tabernacle of God among men" was also given a place of honor in his prayer and his teaching. In 1712, he 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, teaching the faithful to follow Jesus from the Upper Room to Easter and Pentecost. Boucieu became his place of residence. There, he gathered together a few women, charging them to "accompany the pilgrims" on the Way of the Cross and help them to pray and meditate. It was there that he founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. On November 30, 1715, in the church at Boucieu, he gave them the cross and the religious habit. He invited them to assure continuous adoration of Jesus present in the Eucharist and to live together in fellowship. Anxious to give the youth access to instruction, thus helping them grow in their faith and Christian values, Peter Vigne opened schools and also established a Training School for teachers. Such a challenging and busy lifestyle needed some support. For that reason, whenever Peter Vigne was in Lyon on business, he never failed to call on his former seminary tutors, the priests of Saint Sulpice, to meet his confessor and spiritual director. Drawn by the eucharistic spirituality of the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by Monsignor d'Authier de Sisgaud, he was accepted as an associate member of this society of priests on January 25, 1724, in Valence, and benefited by their spiritual and temporal help. While continuing to accompany his young Congregation, Peter Vigne persisted with his apostolic works, and to make the fruits of his missions more available, he found time to write books: rules to live by, works of spirituality, especially the one entitled "Meditations on the most beautiful book, Jesus Christ suffering and dying on the Cross."The physical strength of our pilgrim for God, the demands of his apostolic activities, the long hours he spent in adoration and his life of poverty, bear witness not only to a fairly robust physique, but above all to a passionate love of Jesus Christ who loved his own to the end (John 13:1). At the age of 70, the effects of exhaustion began to show. During a mission at Rencurel, in the Vercors mountains, he was taken ill and had to interrupt his preaching. Despite all his efforts to celebrate the Eucharist one more time and encourage the faithful to love Jesus, feeling his end was near, he expressed once again his missionary zeal, then withdrew in quiet prayer and reflection. A priest and two Sisters came in haste to accompany him in his final moments. On July 8, 1740, he went to join the One he had so loved, adored and served. His body was taken back to its final resting place in the little church in Boucieu where it remains to this day.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 3, 2004.

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