Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 25 2016
Wednesday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday of the Eighth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingFirst Letter of Peter
1,18-25.]realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
]but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.
]He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you,
]who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
]Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a (pure) heart.
]You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,
]for: "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;
]but the word of the Lord remains forever." This is the word that has been proclaimed to you.
Psalms
147,12-13.14-15.19-20.]Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
]For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.
]He has granted peace in your borders;
with the best of wheat he fills you.
]He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
]He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
]He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark
10,32-45.]The disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went ahead of them. They were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him.
]"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles
]who will mock him, spit upon him, scourge him, and put him to death, but after three days he will rise."
]Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
]He replied, "What do you wish (me) to do for you?"
]They answered him, "Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left."
]Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"
]They said to him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
]but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared."
]When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
]Jesus summoned them and said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
]But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
]whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
]For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
St. Bede the Venerable(Priest and Doctor of the Church (673-735))
SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE Priest and Doctor of the Church (673-735) Venerable Bede is a saint from the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian. At 7 years old, he was consecrated to God and entrusted to the care of St. Benedict Biscop in Wearmouth. He became a monk in the sister-house of Jarrow and trained no less than six hundred scholars. To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule, Bede added long hours of private prayer and study. He was familiar with Latin, Greek and Hebrew. In the treatise that he compiled for his scholars, he put together all that the world had stored in history, chronology, physics, music, philosophy, poetry, arithmetic and medicine. In his Ecclesiastical History, he recorded the lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints and Holy Fathers, and his commentaries on Holy Scripture are still in use by the Church. He is generally accepted as the father of English history. Venerable Bede translated the Gospel of St. John from Greek up to the hour of his death on Ascension Day, 735. "He spent that day joyfully," writes one of his scholars. After his attendant had written one last sentence, he said, "Consummatum est. Take my head and face me toward the old praying-place..." Laying on the floor, he sang, "Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost," and breathed his last. His translations of Sacred Scripture spread Christendom throughout England. He was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1899.
St. Gregory VII(Pope (c. 1013-1085))
SAINT GREGORY VII Pope (c. 1013 - 1085) Pope Gregory VII, born Hildebrand, was from southern Tuscany. He was educated at a monastery and was appointed deacon and legate by four successive popes. As the legate of Victor II, he condemned simony at a council in Lyons. He also successfully opposed the Roman aristocracy's appointment of an antipope, Benedict X. He was elected pope in 1073 by popular support. He then codified priestly celibacy and banned simony. Pope Gregory's reforms were unpopular among churchmen associated with Emperor Henry IV of Germany. The Emperor was at war with Catholic princes; and the pope's denunciation of certain clergymen provoked his anger. The first threat against Pope Gregory's life came from Cencio Frangipane. The latter, who practiced investiture and attempted to influence papal elections, wounded Pope Gregory during the Christmas midnight Mass of 1075 and imprisoned him. Pope Gregory was rescued the next day by the populace. Pope Gregory's conflict with Emperor Henry escalated when the latter convened a council to depose the elected pope. The populace and the majority of German princes opposed Henry's move; and the latter was forced to reconcile. However, further military victories against Catholic princes emboldened Henry, who captured Rome in 1084. Henry then instated an antipope and besieged Pope Gregory at the castle of St. Angelo. Pope Gregory set into canon law that only the College of Cardinals could elect a pope. In addition, only the pope could invest bishops with authority. The reforms were deeply unpopular overseas, including France and England. His reforms were the first to secure the independence of the Church and integrity of the priesthood. On May 25, 1085, at the age of 72, during the twelfth year of his pontificate, he went to his eternal reward. He was canonized in 1748.
Bl. Mykola Tsehelskyi(Priest and Martyr (1896-1951))
Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi Greek-Catholic Priest and Martyr (1896-1951) Mykola Tsehelskyi was born on December 17, 1896, in the village of Strusiv, Ternopil District, Ukraine. He completed his course at the theological faculty of Lviv University in 1923. On April 5, 1925, Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky ordained him a priest. Fr. Mykola zealously raised up the spirituality, education and welfare of his parishioners. He ministered in the village of Soroko, where he built a new church. After World War II, the era of total repression began. Fr. Mykola experienced intimidation, threats and beatings. On October 28, 1946, Fr. Mykola was arrested. On January 27, 1947, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Although he had a wife, two sons and two daughters, he was deported to labor camps in Mordovia. He lived in extremely horrid conditions at a camp that was notoriously strict and cruel. Fr. Mykola suffered from severe pain and died a martyr on May 25, 1951. Miracles from his intercession and proof of his heroic virtues show that he gained the beatific vision. He was beatified with 24 other Greek Catholics by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001, in Lliv.
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