Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, March 3 2019
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Sirach
27,4-7.]When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do a man's faults when he speaks.
]As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in his conversation is the test of a man.
]The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does a man's speech disclose the bent of his mind.
]Praise no man before he speaks, for it is then that men are tested.
Psalms
92(91),2-3.13-14.15-16.]It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
To sing praise to your name, Most High,
]To proclaim your kindness at dawn
And your faithfulness throughout the night.
]The just one shall flourish like the palm tree,
Like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow.
]They that are planted in the house of the LORD
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
]They shall bear fruit even in old age;
Vigorous and sturdy shall they be,
]Declaring how just is the LORD,
My rock, in whom there is no wrong.
First Letter to the Corinthians
15,54-58.]And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
]Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"
]The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
]But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
]Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
6,39-45.]Jesus told his disciples a parable : "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?
]No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher.
]Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?
]How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye."
]A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.
]For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles.
]A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
St. Katharine Drexel(Religious (1858-1955))
St. Katharine DrexelReligious (1858-1955) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on November 26, 1858, Katharine Drexel was the second daughter of Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth. Her father was a well-known banker and philanthropist. Both parents instilled their daughters with knowledge that wealth is simply loaned and should be shared. When the family took a trip to the Western part of the United States, Katharine saw the natives' plight and sought to alleviate their suffering. Her experience was the beginning of a lifelong personal and financial support of numerous missions and missionaries in the United States. The first school she established was St. Catherine Native American School in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1887). When visiting Pope Leo XIII in Rome, she requested for missionaries to staff some of the native missions that she was financing. She was surprised when the pope invited her to become a missionary. After consulting her spiritual director, Bishop James O'Connor, Katharine decided to give herself totally to God, along with her inheritance, through service to natives and blacks. Katharine's wealth was now her poverty of spirit amidst the bare necessities. On February 12, 1891, she professed vows as a religious. She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to share the message of the Gospel and the life of the Eucharist among natives and blacks. Always a woman of intense prayer, Sr. Katharine experienced the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life. It was her source of courage and love for the oppressed. Knowing that many blacks lived as sharecroppers and underpaid laborers, and were denied educational and constitutional rights, Sr. Katharine felt the urgency to change racial attitudes in the United States. Founding and staffing schools for natives and blacks became Sr. Katherine's priority. During her lifetime, she opened, staffed and directly supported nearly sixty schools and missions, especially in the Western and Southwestern United States. Her crowning educational focus was the establishment of Xavier University of Louisiana in 1925, the only predominantly black Catholic university in the United States. Her ministry also included visiting homes, hospitals and prisons. In her quiet way, Sr. Katharine combined total dependence on Divine Providence with determined activism. Her joyous incisiveness, attuned to the Holy Spirit, penetrated obstacles and facilitated her advances for social justice. Through her initiatives, the Church in the United States became aware of the need for apostolate among natives and blacks. Sr. Katharine left a four-fold, dynamic legacy to her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament:– Love for the Eucharist, a spirit of prayer and a Eucharistic perspective on the unity of all peoples;– Courageous initiative in addressing social iniquities (one hundred years before the civil rights movement);– Belief in the importance of quality education for all;– Total giving of self to victims of injustice. For the last eighteen years of her life, Sr. Katharine was rendered almost completely immobile because of a serious illness. During these years, she gave herself to a life of adoration and contemplation, which she had desired since childhood. Sr. Katharine passed away on March 3, 1955. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 20, 1980.
St. Cunegundes(Empress († 1040))
SAINT CUNEGUNDESEmpress( 1040) St. Cunegundes was the daughter of Siegfried, the first Count of Luxembourg, and Hadeswige, a Nordgauian maiden. They married her to St. Henry, the duke of Bavaria. When Emperor Otho III passed away, Henry became emperor on June 6, 1002. St. Cunegundes was crowned in Paderborn on St. Laurence's day. St. Cunegundes consecrated her virginity prior to marrying Henry. Together, they received the imperial crown from Pope Benedict VIII on February 14, 1014. When St. Cunegundes was accused of infidelity, she walked unhurt over red-hot ploughshares and proved her innocence. She was vindicated as proved by her lasting queenship. During a retreat in Hesse, St. Cunegundes fell dangerously ill and vowed to found a monastery if she recovered. After recovering, she founded a monatery in Kaffungen, near Cassel, in the diocese of Paderborn, and gave it to Benedictine nuns. Before it was finished, King Henry passed away on July 13, 1024. She sought to join the Benedictine nuns after founding bishoprics, monasteries and relieving the poor. St. Cunegundes embraced perfect poverty to serve God without obstacle. She was consecrated during her church's dedication in Kaffungen in 1025, on the anniversary of her husband's passing. She offered a piece of the True Cross on the altar, put off her imperial robes and clothed herself with a poor habit. She received a ring and a veil from the bishop as symbols of betrothal to Christ. After the consecration, she forgot her imperial dignity and behaved as the last in the house. She prayed and read, worked with her hands and comforted the sick. She served for fifteen years until her mortifications exacerbated a final illness. When she perceived her community was preparing a shroud fringed with gold, St. Cunegundes insisted on being buried as a poor religious. She passed away on March 3, 1040, and was buried near her husband in Bamberg. She was canonized by Pope Innocent III in 1200. She is the patron saint of Luxembourg and Bamberg.
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