Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, June 5 2017

Monday of the Ninth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Ninth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Tobit

1,3.2,1a-8.

]I, Tobit, have walked all the days of my life on the paths of truth and righteousness. I performed many charitable works for my kinsmen and my people who had been deported with me to Nineveh, in Assyria.
]Thus under King Esarhaddon I returned to my home, and my wife Anna and my son Tobiah were restored to me. Then on our festival of Pentecost, the feast of Weeks, a fine dinner was prepared for me, and I reclined to eat.
]The table was set for me, and when many different dishes were placed before me, I said to my son Tobiah: "My son, go out and try to find a poor man from among our kinsmen exiled here in Nineveh. If he is a sincere worshiper of God, bring him back with you, so that he can share this meal with me. Indeed, son, I shall wait for you to come back."
]Tobiah went out to look for some poor kinsman of ours. When he returned he exclaimed, "Father!" I said to him, "What is it, son?" He answered, "Father, one of our people has been murdered! His body lies in the market place where he was just strangled!"
]I sprang to my feet, leaving the dinner untouched; and I carried the dead man from the street and put him in one of the rooms, so that I might bury him after sunset.
]Returning to my own quarters, I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow.
]I was reminded of the oracle pronounced by the prophet Amos against Bethel: "Your festivals shall be turned into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation."
]And I wept. Then at sunset I went out, dug a grave, and buried him.
]The neighbors mocked me, saying to one another: "Will this man never learn! Once before he was hunted down for execution because of this very thing; yet now that he has escaped, here he is again burying the dead!"

Psalm

Psalms

112(111),1-2.3-4.5-6.

]Blessed the man who fears the LORD,
who greatly delights in his commands.
]His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth;
the upright generation shall be blessed.
]Wealth and riches shall be in his house;
his generosity shall endure forever.
]Light shines through the darkness for the upright;
he is gracious and merciful and just.
]Well for the man who is gracious and lends,
who conducts his affairs with justice;
]He shall never be moved;
the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

12,1-12.

]Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.
]At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.
]But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
]Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.
]He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed.
]He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'
]But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
]So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
]What (then) will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others.
]Have you not read this scripture passage: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
]by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?"
]They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away.

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St. Boniface(Bishop and Martyr († 754) - Memorial)

ST. BONIFACEBishop and Martyr( 754) St. Boniface was born in Crediton, Devonshire, England, around 673. He was inspired by missionaries staying at his father's house and later entered the Exminster monastery. After failing to convert the pagans in Holland, he went to Rome and obtained the Pope's blessing. He returned with papal authority and evangelized Germanic tribes. Evangelization was perilous. St. Boniface's flock was often reduced to abject poverty by wandering robber bands. He started in Bavaria and Thuringia and continued in Friesland, Hesse and Saxony. He demolished pagan temples and raised churches on their sites. St. Boniface endeavored to make every object of idolatry contribute to the glory of God. On one occasion, an oak tree used for rituals to Jupiter was used to build a church dedicated to the Prince of the Apostles. St. Boniface was later recalled to Rome and consecrated bishop. He returned to organize the German Church, reform the clergy and established communities. At length, feeling his infirmities increase, St. Boniface appointed a successor to his monastery and set out to convert another pagan tribe. While waiting to administer the sacrament of confirmation to some newly-baptized Christians, a pagan group fell upon him with swords and spears. He and fifty-two companions were massacred - gaining martyrs crowns and reigning with Jesus Christ forever.

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