Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, June 17 2018
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Ezekiel
17,22-24.]Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, And plant it on a high and lofty mountain;
]on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. It shall put forth branches and bear fruit, and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind shall dwell beneath it, every winged thing in the shade of its boughs.
]And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, Bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree, Wither up the green tree, and make the withered tree bloom. As I, the LORD, have spoken, so will I do.
Psalms
92(91),2-3.13-14.15-16.]It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
To sing praise to your name, Most High,
]To proclaim your kindness at dawn
And your faithfulness throughout the night.
]The just one shall flourish like the palm tree,
Like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow.
]They that are planted in the house of the LORD
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
]They shall bear fruit even in old age;
Vigorous and sturdy shall they be,
]Declaring how just is the LORD,
My rock, in whom there is no wrong.
Second Letter to the Corinthians
5,6-10.]Brothers and sisters: we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
]for we walk by faith, not by sight.
]Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.
]Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at home or away.
]For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
4,26-34.]Jesus said to the crowds: "This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
]and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.
]Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
]And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come."
]He said, "To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it?
]It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
]But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade."
]With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
]Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.
St. Herve(Abbot (6th century))
Saint Herve of BrittanyAbbot(6th century) Saint Herve, sometimes called Harvey or Hervues, is venerated throughout Brittany, northwestern France. We have few accounts of him because his life was not written until the late medieval period. What is certain is that he was a hermit in Brittany, where he is still venerated. St. Herve was the bard Hyvarnion's son and was born blind. When his father died, his mother became an achoress. St. Herve was raised by his uncles and lived for a while as a hermit and a bard. He then joined a monastic school in Plouvien founded by his uncle. After becoming the abbot of Plouvien, he built an abbey in Lanhourneau. St. Herve is venerated as a miracle worker. He kept a domesticated wolf as a companion and had a special ministry of healing animals.He is invoked against eye trouble and is often depicted alongside a wolf.
St. Avitus(Abbot (6th century))
SAINT AVITUSAbbot St. Avitus was a native of Orleans, north-central France. Together with St. Calais, he took the monastic habit at the abbey of Menat in Auvergne. The small abbey was later endowed by Queen Brunehault and St. Boner, the bishop of Clermont. Sts. Avitus and Calais later returned to Miscy, a league and a half below Orleans. They stayed at an abbey founded by St. Euspicius, a holy priest, and his nephew, St. Maximin or Mesnim. St. Avitus was the abbey's third abbot. Currently, the abbey is named after St. Maximin and is administered by the Cistercians. Sts. Avitus and Calais later retired to Dunois on the frontiers of La Perche. When others joined them, St. Calais retired to a forest in Maine. Later on, King Clotaire built a church and a monastery for St. Avitus and his companions. The monastery is now a Benedictine convent called St. Avy of Chateaudun in the diocese of Chartres. It is situated on the Loire, at the foot of a hill on which the town of Chateaudun is built. Leobin, Euphronius and Rusticus attended St. Avitus to his happy death around the year 530. His body was reverently interred in Orleans.
Sts. Teresa and Sancia of Portugal()
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