Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, June 18 2017
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Solemnity
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Solemnity
1. ReadingBook of Deuteronomy
8,2-3.14b-16a.]Moses said to the people:
"Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments.
]He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.
]"Do not forget the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery;
]who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
]and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers."
Psalms
147,12-13.14-15.19-20.]Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
]For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.
]He has granted peace in your borders;
with the best of wheat he fills you.
]He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
]He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
]He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia
First Letter to the Corinthians
10,16-17.]Brothers and sisters:
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
]Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
6,51-58.]Jesus said to the crowds:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
]The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
]Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
]Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
]For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
]Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
]Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
]This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."
Sts. Marcus and Marcellianus(Martyrs († 286))
SAINTS MARCUS and MARCELLIANUSMartyrs( 286) Marcus and Marcellianus were twin brothers and Roman noblemen. They received faith early in life and later started families. Their peaceful lives were shattered after Diocletian ascended the imperial throne in 284. For being Christian, Marcus and Marcellianus were imprisoned and condemned to beheading. Their friends obtained a thirty-day respite and attempted to persuade them to apostatize. Tranquillinus and Martia, their parents, along with their sons' wives and babies, also attempted to persuade them. When St. Sebastian, an officer in the emperor's household, came to Rome, he encouraged the brothers. As a result, the brothers'father, mother and wives converted. Nicostratus, the public register, and Chromatius, the judge, also converted and set the Saints at liberty. Chromatius then abdicated the magistracy and retired to the country. Marcus and Marcellianus remained in Rome and were concealed by a Christian officer. However, they were betrayed by an apostate and recaptured. Fabian, Chromatius' sucessor, condemned them and nailed their feet to pillars. They remained in that posture a day and a night before being impaled with lances.
St. Gregory Barbarigo(Bishop (1625-1697))
SAINT GREGORY BARBARIGOBishop (1625-1697) Gregory Barbarigo was born to a ruling family in Venice. He graduated with high honors from the University of Padua with doctorates in canon and civil law. With Apostolic Nuncio Fabio Chigi's encouragement, he attended the Peace Congress in Münster at 19 years old. There, he discerned a religious vocation and consecrated himself to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary. When Fabio Chigi became Pope Alexander VII, he nominated Gregory to the bishopric of Bergamo and appointed him cardinal. Gregory was later transferred to the bishopric of Padua. Heemulated St. Charles Borromeo and zealously carried out the decrees of the Council of Trent. He was pastoral by nature and preached about uprooting vice and cultivating virtue.He took special pains to promote catechetical instruction and visited every village in his diocese. Gregory enlarged the seminaries of both Bergamo and Padua. He built a library in Padua and a printing press to reach Near Eastern people in their own language. His works of charity were remarkable and he always provided for the poor: selling his furniture, clothes and even his bed to help them. After a short illness, he passed away on June 15, 1697. His holiness was renowned and his cause for canonization was soon opened. He was beatified by Clement XIII and canonized by John XXIII.
St. Elizabeth of Schoenau()
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