Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, March 2 2017

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

1. Reading

Book of Deuteronomy

30,15-20.

]Moses said to the people: "Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.
]If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
]If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,
]I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
]I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
]by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

Psalm

Psalms

1,1-2.3.4.6.

]Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
]But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
]He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
]Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
]For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,22-25.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."
]Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
]For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
]What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?"

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St. Simplicius(Pope († 483))

SAINT SIMPLICIUSPope( 483) St. Simplicius served the Church under the auspices of Sts. Leo and Hilarius, succeeding them in the pontificate in 468. His pontificate was beset by persecution. All the provinces of the Western Empire out of Italy had fallen to Gothic tribes. In the eighth year of Simplicius' pontificate, Rome fell prey to foreigners. Italy was left almost a desert without inhabitants; and the imperial armies consisted chiefly of Gothic mercenaries hired under the name of auxiliaries. When the mercenaries saw that their masters were in their power, the Heruli demanded one third of the lands of Italy. They chose Odoacer for their leader, a resolute and intrepid man, who was proclaimed king of Rome in 476. To ensure his kingship, Odoacer executed Orestes, the empire's regent for his son Augustulus. Mercifully, Odoacer spared Augustulus and appointed him a salary of six thousand pounds of gold with permission to live at full liberty near Naples.Pope Simplicius was wholly taken up in comforting and relieving the afflicted, and in sowing the seeds of the Catholic faith among the Goths. The East gave Pope Simplicius no less employment and concern. Peter Cnapheus, a Eutychian, was made Patriarch of Antioch by heretics; and Peter Mengus made Patriach of Alexandria. Acacius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, accepted Pope Simplicius' verdict against Cnapheus, but supported Mengus in secret. When Pope Simplicius discovered Acacius' intrigues, he redoubled his efforts to maintain the one, complete faith. Pope Simplicius was a servant of the servants. He led the Church as pope for fifteen years, eleven months and six days. He passed away in 483 and was buried in St. Peter's on the second of March.

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St. Chad()

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Bl. Charles the Good()

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