Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, March 21 2026

Saturday of the Fourth week of Lent

Book of Jeremiah

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

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

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. Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello((1791-1858))

SAINT BENEDETTA CAMBIAGIO FRASSINELLO (1791 - 1858) Saint Benedetta Cambiagio Frasinello was born on 2 October 1791 in Langasco, Genoa, Italy. She founded a school for the formation of young women and also a religious congregation, and did both with the generous collaboration of her husband. This is unique in the annals of Christian sanctity. Benedetta was a pioneer determined to give young women a quality education. She envisioned families in a "new Christian society" and championed women's rights to education.Call to marriage, then to religious life From her parents, Benedetta received a Christian formation and a living faith. They raised her in Pavia, Northern Italy. At twenty years old, she had a mystical experience that made her desire a life of prayer, penance and consecration to God. However, she obeyed her parents and married Giovanni Frassinello in 1816. The couple agreed to live chastely as brother and sister. They cared for Benedetta's younger sister Maria who was dying from intestinal cancer. They began living a supernatural parenthood unique in the history of the Church.Congregation founded by wife, who is supported by her husband Maria passed away in 1825. Giovanni entered the Somaschi Fathers founded by St. Jerome Emiliani and Benedetta entered the Ursuline Congregation of Capriolo. Benedetta left the Congregation a year later because ofill health. When she returned to Pavia, she was miraculously cured by St. Jerome Emiliani. With the Bishop's approval, Benedetta dedicated herself to educating younggirls. She asked her father for help, but he refused. Bishop Tosi of Pavia asked Giovanni to leave the Somaschi novitiate and help Benedetta. After a vow of perfect chastity before the bishop, they began their common work of forming and educating the city's poor and abandoned girls. Benedetta became the first woman involved in this kind of work. The Austrian government recognized her as a "Promoter of Public Education."Benedictine Sisters of Providence Benedetta's pioneering work was opposed by some misguided clerics. In 1838, she turned over the institution to the bishop of Pavia. Together with Giovanni and five companions, she moved to Ronco Scrivia in the Genoa region. There, they opened a school for girls that was a refinement of what they had done in Pavia. Eventually, Benedetta founded the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence. In her rule, she stressed the education of young girls. She instilled the spirit of unlimited confidence and abandonment to Providence and of love of God through poverty and charity. The Congregation grew quickly since it performed a needed service. Benedetta was able to guide the development of the Congregation until her death. On March 21, 1858, she passed away in Ronco Scrivia. Today the Benedictine Nuns of Providence are present in Italy, Spain, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Peru and Brazil. They are at the service of young people, the poor, the sick and the elderly. The foundress also opened a house of the order in Voghera. Forty years after the death of Benedetta, the bishop separated this house from the rest of the Order. The name was changed to the Benedictines of Divine Providence who honour the memory of the Foundress. Benedetta was canonized by John Paul II on May 19, 2002.

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