Saturday of the Seventh week in Ordinary Time

Letter of James

Beloved : Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praise.
Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters of the church, and they should pray over him and anoint (him) with oil in the name of the Lord,
and the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.
Elijah was a human being like us; yet he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain upon the land.
Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.
My brothers, if anyone among you should stray from the truth and someone bring him back,
he should know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Psalms

LORD, I call to you; come quickly to help me;
listen to my plea when I call.
Let my prayer be incense before you;
my uplifted hands an evening sacrifice.
Set a guard, LORD, before my mouth,
a gatekeeper at my lips.
My eyes are upon you, O GOD, my Lord;
in you I take refuge; do not strip me of life.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."
Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.

St. Bede the Venerable(Priest & Doctor of the Church (673-735))

SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE Priest & Doctor of the Church (673-735) Venerable Bede is a saint from the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian. At the age of 7, 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 there trained no less than six hundred scholars, whom his piety, learning and sweet disposition had gathered around him. To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule, Bede added long hours of private prayer and the study of every branch of science and literature. He was familiar with Latin, Greek and Hebrew. In the treatise that he compiled for his scholars, still extant, he put together all that the world had stored in history, chronology, physics, music, philosophy, poetry, arithmetic and medicine. In his Ecclesiastical History, he has left us the beautiful lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints and holy Fathers, while his commentaries on the Holy Scriptures are still in use by the Church. It was to the study of the Divine Word that he devoted the whole energy of his soul; and at times his compunction was so overpowering that his voice would break with weeping. At the very limits of human intellect, Bede translated scripture into his native tongue. During his later years, he suffered from constant illness: yet he worked and prayed up to his last hour. Venerable Bede was employed in translating the Gospel of St. John from Greek up to the hour of his death, which took place on Ascension Day, 735. "He spent that day joyfully," writes one of his scholars. In the evening, the boy attendeding him said, "Dear master, there is yet one sentence unwritten." He answered, "Write it quickly." Presently the youth said, "Now it is written." He replied, "Good! Thou hast said the truth-consummatum est. Take my head and face me toward the old praying-place, so I may call upon my Father." And so, on the floor of his cell, he sang, "Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;" and just as he said "Holy Ghost," he breathed his last and went to God in eternity.

St. Gregory VII(Pope (c. 1013-1085))

SAINT GREGORY VII Pope (c. 1013 - 1085) Gregory VII, by name Hildebrand, was born in Tuscany around 1013. Educated in Rome, he went to France and became a monk in Cluny. When he returned, he filled high trusts of the Holy See for many years. Three great evils then afflicted the Church: simony, concubinage and the custom of receiving investiture from lay hands. Against these three corruptions, Gregory never ceased to contend. As the legate of Victor II, he condemned simony at a council in Lyons. When Gregory was elected pope in 1073, he immediately ordered the clergy to reject secular influence on Church affairs. Rome was then in rebellion through the ambition of the Cenci. They laid hands on him at Christmas during the midnight Mass, wounded him and cast him into prison. The following day, he was rescued by the people. Next arose Pope Gregory's conflict with Henry IV, the emperor of Germany. Henry relapsed into simony and pretended to depose Pope Gregory, which resulted in Henry's excommunication. Henry's subjects then turned against him, and he sought absolution from Pope Gregory in Canossa.Unfortunately, Henry's insincerity and ambitiousness got the better of him. He set up an antipope and besieged Pope Gregory at the castle of St. Angelo - causing the aged pontiff to flee. On May 25, 1085, at the age of 72 and during the twelfth of his pontificate, Gregory went to his eternal reward. The miracles proceeding from his intercession and proof of his heroic virtues led to his canonization in 1748.

Bl. Mykola Tsehelskyi(Priest & 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 to the priesthood. Fr. Mykola was a zealous priest who took care of the spirituality, education and welfare of his parishioners. He was the parish priest in the village of Soroko, where he built a new church. After World War II, the era of total repression began. Fr. Mykola personally 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, in 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.

misalcatolico.com

Category: Mass by Year / Catholic Missal 2024 / Catholic Missal of may 2024