Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, June 21 2019

Friday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

Friday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Second Letter to the Corinthians

11,18.21b-30.

]Brothers and sisters: since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
]To my shame I say that we were too weak! But what anyone dares to boast of (I am speaking in foolishness) I also dare.
]Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
]Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.
]Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes minus one.
]Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I passed a night and a day on the deep;
]on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own race, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers;
]in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.
]And apart from these things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
]Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led to sin, and I am not indignant?
]If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Psalm

Psalms

34(33),2-3.4-5.6-7.

]I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
]Let my soul glory in the LORD;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
]Glorify the LORD with me,
let us together extol his name.
]I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
]Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
]When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

6,19-23.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
]But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
]For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
]The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
]but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be."

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga((1568-1591))

SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA(1568-1591) St. Aloysius was born on March 9, 1568, the eldest son of Ferdinand Gonzaga, the marquis of Castiglione. His first words were Jesus and Mary. He made a vow of perpetual virginity at 9 years old and was exempted from temptations against purity. He received his first Communion from St. Charles Borromeo. When St. Aloysius resolved to become a religious, he saw Our Lady in a vision directing him to join the Society of Jesus. His mother rejoiced, but his father only consented after 3 years. On November 25, 1585, he entered the novitiate. He professed vows after two years and completed courses in philosophy and theology. St. Aloysius said that he doubted grace could make headway against nature without penance and sensory mortification. Nature tends to relapse into its old state when it is not mortified or penance is made. He often said, "I am a crooked piece of iron, but penance and mortifications will straighten me." According to tradition, penance is prayer, fasting and almsgiving (CCC 1434). During St. Aloysius' last year of theology, an epidemic broke out in Rome. He offered himself for the service of the sick and was accepted. Several of his brothers caught a fever and he was brought to the point of death. Even though he recovered, a slow fever took his life after three months. He died a little after midnight betweenJune 20 and 21, on the octave-day of Corpus Christi, at 24 years old. He is a patron saint for students and victims of HIV.

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