Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, June 14 2016

Tuesday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

1st book of Kings

21,17-29.

]After the death of Naboth the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite:
]"Start down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He will be in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has come to take possession.
]This is what you shall tell him, 'The LORD says: After murdering, do you also take possession? For this, the LORD says: In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the dogs shall lick up your blood, too.'"
]"Have you found me out, my enemy?" Ahab said to Elijah. "Yes," he answered. "Because you have given yourself up to doing evil in the LORD'S sight,
]I am bringing evil upon you: I will destroy you and will cut off every male in Ahab's line, whether slave or freeman, in Israel.
]I will make your house like that of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and like that of Baasha, son of Ahijah, because of how you have provoked me by leading Israel into sin."
](Against Jezebel, too, the LORD declared, "The dogs shall devour Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.")
]"When one of Ahab's line dies in the city, dogs will devour him; when one of them dies in the field, the birds of the sky will devour him."
]Indeed, no one gave himself up to the doing of evil in the sight of the LORD as did Ahab, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
]He became completely abominable by following idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.
]When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth over his bare flesh. He fasted, slept in the sackcloth, and went about subdued.
]Then the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
]"Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his time. I will bring the evil upon his house during the reign of his son."

Psalm

Psalms

51(50),3-4.5-6ab.11.16.

]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.
]For I acknowledge my offense,
and my sin is before me always:
]"Against you only have I sinned,
]and done what is evil in your sight."
]Turn away your face from my sins,
and blot out all my guilt.
]Free me from blood guilt, O God, my saving God;
then my tongue shall revel in your justice.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

5,43-48.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
]But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
]that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
]For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
]And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?
]So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."

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St. Elisha(Prophet (9th century BC))

St. Elisha, Prophet (9th century BC) Elisha's name in Hebrew means, "God is Salvation." He was the son of Shaphat and was called by the prophet Elijah while plowing his father's fields. The prophet Elijah conferred succession by casting his mantle upon Elisha. Elisha asked to "inherit a double-portion" of Elijah's spirit before the latter was taken up in a fiery chariot and into the whirlwind. Elisha's first miracle was restoring the farmlands of the town of Jericho. He added salt to its spring and purified its waters. Next, when the armies of Judah, Israel and Edom were allied against Mesa, the Moabite king, and were tormented by drought in the Idumæan desert, Elisha prophesied the drought's end and victory over Mesa. His prophecies were fulfilled the next morning (2 Kgs 3:4-24). To relieve a widow importuned by a hard creditor, Elisha multiplied a little oil, which repaid her debts and provided for her family (2 Kgs 4:1-7). He rewarded a rich lady of Shunam for her hospitality by raising her dead son to life (2 Kgs 4:18-37). He nourished the sons of the prophets pressed by famine by changing pottage made from poisonous gourds into wholesome food (2 Kgs 4:38-41). During Syria's military incursions into Israel, Elisha cured Naaman's leprosy by sending him to bathe in the Jordan seven times. Naaman was reluctant at first, but obeyed. He washed seven times and was cured. Jesus referred to this when he said, "there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian" (Luke 4:27). Elisha's life and works are recorded in 1 and 2 Kings. He is commemorated on this date in the 2004 Roman Martyrology.

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