Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, May 17 2016

Tuesday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter of James

4,1-10.

]Beloved : Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?
]You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask.
]You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
]Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
]Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, "The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy"?
]But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
]So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
]Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds.
]Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
]Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

Psalm

Psalms

55(54),7-8.9-10a.10b-11a.23.

]I say, "If only I had wings like a dove
that I might fly away and find rest.
]Far away I would flee;
I would stay in the desert.
]I would soon find a shelter
from the raging wind and storm."
]Lord, check and confuse their scheming.
]I see violence and strife in the city
]making rounds on its walls day and night.
Within are mischief and evil;
]Cast your care upon the LORD,
who will give you support.
God will never allow the righteous to stumble.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

9,30-37.

]Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
]He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death he will rise."
]But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
]They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, "What were you arguing about on the way?"
]But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.
]Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all."
]Taking a child he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them,
]Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the one who sent me."

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St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas(Foundress (1783-1854))

Saint Joachina de Vedruna (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) St. Joachina was a Catalonian noblewoman who founded the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. Before becoming a religious, she married Theodore de Mas, a man from a royal family in Barcelona, Spain, in 1799. They had nine children before Theodore was killed during Napoleon's invasion in 1816. After her husband's passing, Joachina moved with her children to their estate in Vic. She started charitable activities for the sick and for young women. Her spiritual director, the Capuchin Esteban de Olot, suggested establishing an apostolic congregation devoted to education and charity. Joachina established a Congregation that cared for the sick, the poor and anyone in need of education. They built houses for the homeless and started schools in poor areas. The bishop of Vic, Pablo Jesús Corcuera, told Joachina that the institute should be of Carmelite inspiration and wrote its rule on February 6, 1826. Twenty days later, Joachina and eight companions professed vows. In a few years, Joachina's Carmelites founded several houses in Catalonia. During the First Carlist War (a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839), she fled the country after a hospital that she founded in the Carlist town of Berga was threatened by fighting. As a result, she went to Roussillon, France, where she stayed from 1836 to 1842. Joachina's apostolic congregation was definitively approved in 1850. Despite serious challenges posed by civil war and secular opposition, the institute soon spread throughout Catalonia. Soon after, communities were established throughout Spain and South America. Eventually, Joachina was forced to resign as superior because of illness. Joachina passed away during a cholera epidemic in Barcelona after suffering from paralysis for four years. By the time of her death in 1854, at the age of 71, she was known and admired for her deep trust in God and selfless charity. She was beatifiedin1940 and canonized in 1959.

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St. Paschal Baylon()

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