Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, March 11 2026

Wednesday of the Third week of Lent

Book of Deuteronomy

Moses spoke to the people and said: "Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy.
Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, 'This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.'
For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?
Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?"
"However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children's children."

Psalms

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 sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
He spreads snow like wool;
frost he strews like ashes.
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

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

St. Eulogius(Martyr (+ 859))

SAINT EULOGIUS Martyr (+ 859) St. Eulogius' senatorial family was from Cordova, the capital of the Moors in Spain. Eulogius 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, Eulogius was imprisoned. He wrote his Exhortation to Martyrdom, addressed to the virgins Flora and Mary, who were beheaded on November 24, 851. Six days later, he was released. A virgin named Leocritia, from a noble Moorish family, had been catechized by a relative since childhood. She was privately baptized, but got disowned by her parents. She told Eulogius and his sister Anulona that she desired to worship and adore Jesus freely. Thus, Eulogius and Anulona provided her sanctuary. When their plan was discovered, they were prosecuted by the cadi. 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 his face. He turned his cheek and patiently 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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