Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, March 11 2017

Saturday of the First week of Lent

Saturday of the First week of Lent

1. Reading

Book of Deuteronomy

26,16-19.

]Moses spoke to the people, saying: "This day the LORD, your God, commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then, to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
]Today you are making this agreement with the LORD: he is to be your God and you are to walk in his ways and observe his statutes, commandments and decrees, and to hearken to his voice.
]And today the LORD is making this agreement with you: you are to be a people peculiarly his own, as he promised you; and provided you keep all his commandments,
]he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory above all other nations he has made, and you will be a people sacred to the LORD, your God, as he promised."

Psalm

Psalms

119(118),1-2.4-5.7-8.

]Blessed are they whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the LORD.
]Blessed are they who observe his decrees,
Who seek him with all their heart.
]You have commanded that your precepts
be diligently kept.
]Oh, that I might be firm in the ways
of keeping your statutes!
]I will give you thanks with an upright heart,
when I have learned your just ordinances.
]I will keep your statutes;
do not utterly forsake me.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

5,43-48.

]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."

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St. Eulogius(Martyr († 859))

SAINT EULOGIUS Martyr ( 859) St. Eulogius' senatorial family was from Cordova, the capital of the Moors in Spain. He was educated at the Church of St. Zoilus. He discerned a religious vocation, was ordained and was appointed director of the chief ecclesiastical school in Cordova. When Christians were persecuted in 850, St. Eulogius was imprisoned. He wrote his Exhortation to Martyrdom addressed to the virgins Flora and Mary. They were beheaded on November 24, 851. St. Eulogius was released six days later. A virgin named Leocritia, from a noble Moorish family, had been catechized by a relative since childhood. She was privately baptized, but had been disowned by her parents. She told St. Eulogius and his sister Anulona that she desired to worship and adore Jesus freely. Thus, St. Eulogius and Anulona provided her sanctuary. When their plan was discovered, all three were prosecuted by the cadi. St. Eulogius was threatened with being scourged to death and was condemned by the king's council. When the guards led him away, one of them struck him across the face; whereupon he patiently turned his cheek and received another. St. Eulogius was beheaded on March 11, 859. St. Leocritia was beheaded four days later. Her body was thrown into the river Guadalquivir before it was recovered and buried by Christians.

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St. Oengus()

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