Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, March 12 2016
Saturday of the Fourth week of Lent
Saturday of the Fourth week of Lent
1. ReadingBook of Jeremiah
11,18-20.]I knew their plot because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings.
]Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: "Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more."
]But, you, O Lord of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!
Psalms
7,2-3.9bc-10.11-12.]O LORD, my God, in you I take refuge;
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
]Lest I become like the lion's prey,
to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue me.
]Do me justice, O LORD, because I am just,
]and because of the innocence that is mine.
]Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,
but sustain the just,
O searcher of heart and soul, O just God.
]A shield before me is God,
who saves the upright of heart;
]A just judge is God,
a God who punishes day by day.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
7,40-53.]Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, "This is truly the Prophet."
]Others said, "This is the Messiah." But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he?
]Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David's family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"
]So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
]Some of them even wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
]So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
]The guards answered, "Never before has anyone spoken like this one."
]So the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived?
]Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
]But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed."
]Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them,
]Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing?
]They answered and said to him, "You are not from Galilee also, are you? Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."
]Then each went to his own house,
St. Luigi Orione(Priest (1872-1940))
Saint Luigi Orione Priest (1872-1940) St. Luigi Orione was born in Pontecurone, the diocese of Tortona, on June 23, 1872. He entered the Franciscan Friary of Voghera (Pavia) at 13 years old, but left after one year because of poor health. From 1886 to 1889, he was a pupil of St. John Bosco at the Valdocco Oratory (Youth Center) in Turin. On October 16, 1889, St. Luigi joined the diocesan seminary of Tortona. As a young seminarian, he devoted himself to serving others through the San Marziano Society for Mutual Help and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. On July 3, 1892, he opened the first Oratory in Tortona for the Christian formation of boys. On October 15, 1893, he started a boarding school for poor boys on the Saint Bernardine estate. He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1895, together with six pupils from the boarding school. He then opened new houses in Mornico Losana (Pavia), Noto in Sicily, Sanremo and Rome. Seminarians and priests comprised the first core group of St. Luigi's "Little Work of Divine Providence." The Hermits of Divine Providencewere founded in 1899. The Sons of Divine Providencewere founded on March 21, 1903, after Bp. Mgr. Ignio Bandi's canonical approval. The congregation "co-operates to bring the little ones, the poor and the people, to the Church and to the Pope, by means of the works of charity," and professes a fourth vow of special "faithfulness to the Pope." In the first Constitutions of 1904, among the aims of the new Congregation, was working to "achieve the union of the separated Churches." Inspired by a profound love for the Church and for the salvation of souls, St. Luigi engaged with the problems of his time, such as the freedom and unity of the Church, the Roman question, modernism, socialism and the Christian evangelization of industrial workers.He rushed to assist the victims of the earthquakes of Reggio and Messina (1908) and the Marsica region (1915). He was afterward appointed vicar general of the Diocese of Messina for three years by Saint Pius X. On June 29, 1915, twenty years after the foundation of the Sons of Divine Providence, St. Luigi added to the "single tree of many branches" the Congregation of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity. Alongside them, he placed the Blind Sisters, Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament. Later, the Contemplative Sisters of Jesus Crucified were also founded.For lay people, he set up the associations of the "Ladies of Divine Providence," the "Former Pupils," and the "Friends." More recently, the Don Orione Secular Institute and the Don Orione Lay People's Movement have come into being. Following the First World War (1914-1918), the number of schools, boarding houses, agricultural schools, charitable and welfare works increased. Among his most enterprising and original works, he set up the "Little Cottolengos" for the care of the suffering and abandoned. The shelters were usually built on the outskirts of large cities to act as "new pulpits" from which to speak of Christ and of the Church, "true beacons of faith and of civilization." St. Luigi first sent his religious to Brazil in 1913. They subsequently expanded to Argentina and Uruguay (1921), Palestine (1921), Poland (1923), Rhodes (1925), the USA (1934), England (1935) and Albania (1936). From 1921 to 1922, and from 1934 to 1937, he made two missionary journeys to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile. St. Luigi was entrusted with sorting out problems and healing wounds, both inside the Church and in society. He was a preacher, a confessor and a tireless organiser of pilgrimages, missions, processions, live cribs and other popular manifestations and celebrations of the faith. He loved Our Lady deeply and fostered devotion to Her by every means possible. Through the manual labor of his seminarians, the shrines of Our Lady of Safe Keeping in Tortona and Our Lady of Caravaggio in Fumo were built. In the winter of 1940, with the intention of easing his heart and lung complications, he went to the Sanremo house, even though, as he said, "it is not among the palm trees that I would like to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ." Only three days later, on March 12, 1940, surrounded by his confreres, he passed away while sighing, "Jesus, Jesus! I am going." St. Luigi's body was found uncorrupted at its first exhumation in 1965. It has been exposed to the veneration of the faithful in the shrine of Our Lady of Safe Keeping in Tortona ever since October 26, 1980 - the day he was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II. St. Luigi was canonized on May 16, 2004.
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