Tuesday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Genesis

In the course of the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives, with the two maidservants and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
After he had taken them across the stream and had brought over all his possessions,
Jacob was left there alone. Then some man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
When the man saw that he could not prevail over him, he struck Jacob's hip at its socket, so that the hip socket was wrenched as they wrestled.
The man then said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go until you bless me."
"What is your name?" the man asked. He answered, "Jacob."
Then the man said, "You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed."
Jacob then asked him, "Do tell me your name, please." He answered, "Why should you want to know my name?" With that, he bade him farewell.
Jacob named the place Peniel, "Because I have seen God face to face," he said, "yet my life has been spared."
At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.
That is why, to this day, the Israelites do not eat the sciatic muscle that is on the hip socket, inasmuch as Jacob's hip socket was struck at the sciatic muscle.

Psalms

Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
From you let my judgment come;
Your eyes behold what is right.
Though you test my heart, searching it in the night,
though you try me with fire, you shall find no malice in me.
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
Show your wondrous mercies,
O savior of those who flee from their foes
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking I shall be content in your presence.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus,
and when the demon was driven out the mute person spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel."
But the Pharisees said, "He drives out demons by the prince of demons."
Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness.
At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest."

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 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 an honest 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 offers Himself always. In 1690, Peter entered the Sulpician Seminary in Viviers. He received holy orders on September 18, 1694, in Bourg Saint Andeol. He was then sent as curate to Saint-Agreve where he exercised his priestly ministry for six years alongside the parish priest. With docility to the Holy Spirit, Fr. 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, Fr. 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, he 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 his teaching. In 1712, Fr. Peter came to Boucieu-le-Roi, where the terrain favored the paving of a Way of the Cross. With the help of parishioners, Fr. Peter 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, Fr. 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. Fr. 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. Fr. 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. Fr. 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, Fr. Peter 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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