Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, March 2 2019

Saturday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Sirach

17,1-13.

]God from the earth created man, and in his own image he made him. He makes man return to earth again, and endows him with a strength of his own.
]Limited days of life he gives him and makes him return to earth again.
]He endows man with a strength of his own, and with power over all things else on earth.
]He puts the fear of him in all flesh, and gives him rule over beasts and birds.
]He forms men's tongues and eyes and ears, and imparts to them an understanding heart.
]With wisdom and knowledge he fills them; good and evil he shows them.
]He looks with favor upon their hearts, and shows them his glorious works,
]That they may describe the wonders of his deeds and praise his holy name.
]He has set before them knowledge, a law of life as their inheritance;
]An everlasting covenant he has made with them, his commandments he has revealed to them.
]His majestic glory their eyes beheld, his glorious voice their ears heard.
]He says to them, "Avoid all evil"; each of them he gives precepts about his fellow men.
]Their ways are ever known to him, they cannot be hidden from his eyes.

Psalm

Psalms

103(102),13-14.15-16.17-18a.

]As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
]For he knows how we are formed,
remembers that we are dust.
]Man's days are like those of grass;
like a flower of the field he blooms;
]The wind sweeps over him and he is gone,
and his place knows him no more.
]But the kindness of the LORD is from eternity
to eternity toward those who fear him,
and his justice toward children's children
]among those who keep his covenant.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

10,13-16.

]People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
]When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
]Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."
]Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.

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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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