Tuesday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

Second Letter to the Corinthians

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia,
for in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
For according to their means, I can testify, and beyond their means, spontaneously,
they begged us insistently for the favor of taking part in the service to the holy ones,
and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us through the will of God,
so that we urged Titus that, as he had already begun, he should also complete for you this gracious act also.
Now as you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also.
I say this not by way of command, but to test the genuineness of your love by your concern for others.
For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Psalms

Praise the LORD, my soul!
I will praise the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.
Blessed he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD, his God,
Who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that is in them.
Who keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free.
The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
The LORD protects strangers.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

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."

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 the bard Hyvarnion's son, and was born blind. When his father died, his mother became an achoress; and he was raised by his uncles.He lived for a while as a hermit and a bard. He then joined a monastic school in Plouvien, which his uncle had founded. After becoming the abbot of Plouvien, Herve built an abbey in Lanhourneau. St. Herve is venerated as a miracle worker. He had a special ministry of healing animals and had a domesticated wolf as a companion.He is invoked against eye trouble and is often depicted with a wolf.

St. Avitus(Abbot (6th century))

SAINT AVITUSAbbot St. Avitus was a native of Orleans. He took the monastic habit with St. Calais at the abbey of Menat in Auvergne. Although the abbey was small, it 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. They stayed at an abbey that was founded by St. Euspicius, a holy priest, and his nephew, St. Maximin or Mesnim. Avitus was the abbey's third abbot. At present, the abbey is named after St. Maximin and is administered by the Cistercians. Avitus and Calais later retired to Dunois, on the frontiers of La Perche. When others joined them, Calais retired to a forest in Maine. Later on, King Clotaire built a church and a monastery for 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 around the year 530. His body was was reverently interred in Orleans.

Sts. Teresa and Sancia of Portugal()

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