Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, March 12 2018
Monday of the Fourth week of Lent
Monday of the Fourth week of Lent
1. ReadingBook of Isaiah
65,17-21.]Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
]Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;
]I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;
]No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
]They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
Psalms
30(29),2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b.]I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
]O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
]Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
]For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
]At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
]Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
]You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
4,43-54.]At that time Jesus left for Galilee.
]For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
]When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
]Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
]When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
]Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
]The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
]Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
]While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
]He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
]The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
](Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.
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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