Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, March 22 2019
Friday of the Second week of Lent
Friday of the Second week of Lent
1. ReadingBook of Genesis
37,3-4.12-13a.17b-28.]Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic.
]When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him.
]One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem,
]Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem. Get ready; I will send you to them." "I am ready," Joseph answered.
]The man told him, "They have moved on from here; in fact, I heard them say, 'Let us go on to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan.
]They noticed him from a distance, and before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him.
]They said to one another: "Here comes that master dreamer!
]Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We shall then see what comes of his dreams."
]When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from their hands, saying: "We must not take his life.
]Instead of shedding blood," he continued, "just throw him into that cistern there in the desert; but don't kill him outright." His purpose was to rescue him from their hands and restore him to his father.
]So when Joseph came up to them, they stripped him of the long tunic he had on;
]then they took him and threw him into the cistern, which was empty and dry.
]They then sat down to their meal. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum, balm and resin to be taken down to Egypt.
]Judah said to his brothers: "What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?
]Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, instead of doing away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.
]They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Some Midianite traders passed by, and they pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and took him to Egypt.
Psalms
105(104),16-17.18-19.20-21.]When the LORD called down a famine on the land
and ruined the crop that sustained them,
]He sent a man before them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.
]They had weighed him down with fetters,
and he was bound with chains,
]Till his prediction came to pass
and the word of the LORD proved him true.
]The king sent and released him,
the ruler of the peoples set him free.
]He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
21,33-43.45-46.]Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
]When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
]But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned.
]Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way.
]Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'
]But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.'
]They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
]What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?"
]They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times."
]Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?
]Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.
]When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them.
]And although they were attempting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.
Bl. Cardinal August von Galen(Bishop (1933-1946))
Blessed Clemens August von GalenBishop of Münster (1878-1946) Clemens August von Galen was born on 16 March 1878 in Dinklage Castle, Oldenburg, Germany. He was the 11th of 13 children born to Count Ferdinand Heribert and Elisabeth von Spees. His father was from the noble family of Westphalia, who since 1660 governed the village of Dinklage. For over two centuries, his ancestors carried out the inherited office of camerlengo of the Diocese of Münster. Clemens August grew up in Dinklage Castle and in other family seats. Due to the struggle between Church and State, he and his brothers were sent to a school run by the Jesuits in Feldkirch, Austria. He remained there until 1894, when he transferred to the Antonianum in Vechta. After graduation, he studied philosophy and theology in Frebur, Innsbruck and Münster. He was ordained a priest on 28 May 1904 for the Diocese of Münster by Bishop Hermann Dingelstadt.Parish priest, concern for poor His first two years as a priest were spent as vicar of the diocesan cathedral where he became chaplain to his uncle, Bishop Maximilian Gerion von Galen. From 1906 to 1929, Fr von Galen carried out much of his pastoral activity outside Münster: in 1906 he was made chaplain of the parish of St Matthias in Berlin-Schönberg; from 1911 to 1919 he was curate of a new parish in Berlin before becoming parish priest of the Basilica of St Matthias in Berlin-Schönberg, where he served for 10 years; here, he was particularly remembered for his special concern for the poor and outcasts. In 1929, Fr von Galen was called back to Münster when Bishop Johannes Poggenpohlaskedhimtoserveas parish priest of the Church of St Lambert."Nec laudibus, nec timore' In January 1933, Bishop Poggenpohl died, leaving the See vacant. After two candidates refused, on September 5, 1933 Fr Clemens was appointed Bishop of Münster by Pope Pius XI. On October 28, 1933 he was consecrated by Cardinal Joseph Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne; Bishop von Galen was the first diocesan Bishop to be consecrated under Hitler's regime. As his motto, he chose the formula of the rite of episcopal consecration: "Nec laudibus, nec timore" (Neither praise nor threats will distance me from God). Throughout the 20 years that Bishop von Galen was curate and parish priest in Berlin, he wrote on various political and social issues; in a pastoral letter dated 26 March 1934, he wrote very clearly and critically on the "neopaganism of the national socialist ideology". Due to his outspoken criticism, he was called to Rome by Pope Pius XI in 1937 together with the Bishop of Berlin, to confer with them on the situation in Germany and speak of the eventual publication of an Encyclical. On 14 March 1937 the Encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" (To the Bishops of Germany: The place of the Catholic Church in the German Reich) was published. It was widely circulated by Bishop von Galen, notwithstanding Nazi opposition."Lion of Munster' In the summer of 1941, in answer to unwarranted attacks by the National Socialists, Bishop von Galen delivered three admonitory sermons between July and August. He spoke in his old parish Church of St Lambert and in Liebfrauen-Ueberlassen Church, since the diocesan cathedral had been bombed. In his famous speeches, Bishop von Galen spoke out against the State confiscation of Church property and the programmatic euthanasia carried out by the regime. The clarity and incisiveness of his words and the unshakable fidelity of Catholics in the Diocese of Münster embarrassed the Nazi regime, and on 10 October 1943 the Bishop's residence was bombed. Bishop von Galen was forced to take refuge in nearby Borromeo College. From 12 September 1944 on, he could no longer remain in the city of Münster, destroyed by the war; he left for the zone of Sendenhorst. In 1945, Vatican Radio announced that Pope Pius XII was to hold a Consistory and that the Bishop of Münster was also to be present.Creation of a Cardinal After a long and difficult journey, due to the war and other impediments, Bishop von Galen finally arrived in the "Eternal City". On 21 February 1946 the Public Consistory was held in St Peter's Basilica and Bishop von Galen was created a Cardinal. On 16 March 1946 the 68-year-old Cardinal returned to Münster. He was cordially welcomed back by the city Authorities and awarded honorary citizenship by the burgomaster. On the site of what remained of the cathedral, Cardinal von Galen gave his first (and what would be his last) discourse to the more than 50,000 people who had gathered, thanking them for their fidelity to the then-Bishop of Münster during the National Socialist regime. He explained that as a Bishop, it was his duty to speak clearly and plainly about what was happening. No one knew that the Cardinal was gravely ill, and when he returned to Münster on 19 March 1946 he had to undergo an operation. Cardinal von Galen died just three days later, on 22 March. He was buried on 28 March in the Ludgerus Chapel, which has become a place of pilgrimage to this defender of the faith in the face of political oppression.
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