Monday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

1st book of Kings

21,1-16.

Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria,
Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, since it is close by, next to my house. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or, if you prefer, I will give you its value in money."
"The LORD forbid," Naboth answered him, "that I should give you my ancestral heritage."
Ahab went home disturbed and angry at the answer Naboth the Jezreelite had made to him: "I will not give you my ancestral heritage." Lying down on his bed, he turned away from food and would not eat.
His wife Jezebel came to him and said to him, "Why are you so angry that you will not eat?"
He answered her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, 'Sell me your vineyard, or, if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in exchange.' But he refused to let me have his vineyard."
"A fine ruler over Israel you are indeed!" his wife Jezebel said to him. "Get up. Eat and be cheerful. I will obtain the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you."
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and, having sealed them with his seal, sent them to the elders and to the nobles who lived in the same city with Naboth.
This is what she wrote in the letters: "Proclaim a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.
Next, get two scoundrels to face him and accuse him of having cursed God and king. Then take him out and stone him to death."
His fellow citizens--the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city--did as Jezebel had ordered them in writing, through the letters she had sent them.
They proclaimed a fast and placed Naboth at the head of the people.
Two scoundrels came in and confronted him with the accusation, "Naboth has cursed God and king." And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death.
Then they sent the information to Jezebel that Naboth had been stoned to death.
When Jezebel learned that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Go on, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he refused to sell you, because Naboth is not alive, but dead."
On hearing that Naboth was dead, Ahab started off on his way down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Psalms

5,2-3ab.4b-6a.6b-7.

Hearken to my words, O LORD,
Attend to my sighing.
Heed my call for help,
My king and my God!
At dawn I bring my plea expectantly before you.
For you, O God, delight not in wickedness;
no evil man remains with you;
the arrogant may not stand in your sight.
You hate all evildoers.
You destroy all who speak falsehood;
the bloodthirsty and the deceitful
the LORD abhors.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

5,38-42.

Jesus said to his disciples: "You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.
If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles.
Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow."

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St. Herve(Abbot, (6th century))

Saint Herve of BrittanyAbbot(6th century) Saint Herve, sometimes called Harvey or Hervues, is venerated throughout Brittany. We have few accounts of him because his life was not written until the late medieval period. All we really know is that he was a hermit in Brittany, where he is still venerated. Herve was a son of the bard Hyvarnion and was born blind. When Hyvarnion died, the infant Herve was raised by his uncles after his mother became an anchoress.He lived for a while as a hermit and bard, and then joined a monastic school in Plouvien, which had been founded by his uncle. After becoming the abbot of Plouvien, Herve built an abbey in Lanhourneau. St. Herve is venerated as a miracle worker. He is reported to have a special ministry of healing animals and to have had a domesticated wolf as a companion.He is invoked against eye trouble and is often depicted with a wolf.

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St. Avitus(Abbot)

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SAINT AVITUSAbbot St. Avitus was a native of Orleans. He took the monastic habit with St. Calais in the abbey of Menat in Auvergne. Although small, the abbey was later endowed by Queen Brunehault and St. Boner, the bishop of Clermont. Avitus and Calais returned to Miscy a league and a half below Orleans. The abbey was founded toward the end of the reign of Clovis I by St. Euspicius, a holy priest, and his nephew, St. Maximin or Mesnim. St. Maximin or St. Euspicius was its first abbot, while St. Avitus its third. At present, the abbey is named after St. Maximin and is administered by the Cistercians. St. Avitus and St. Calais later moved to Dunois on the frontiers of La Perche and searched for a closer retirement. When others joined them,St. Calais retired to a forest in Maine. King Clotaire later built a church and a monastery for St. Avitus and his companions. The monastery is today 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. Three famous monks: Leobin, Euphronius and Rusticus attended Avitus to his happy death about the year 530. His body was carried to Orleans and reverently interred in that city.

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Sts. Teresa and Sancia of Portugal()

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