Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 30 2016

Monday of the Ninth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Ninth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

second Letter of Peter

1,2-7.

]may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
]His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power.
]Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divinenature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
]For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge,
]knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,
]devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.

Psalm

Psalms

91(90),1-2.14-15ab.15c-16.

]You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
]Say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."
]Because he clings to me, I will deliver him;
I will set him on high because he acknowledges my name.
]He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;
]I will be with him in distress.  
]I will deliver him and glorify him;
]With length of days I will gratify him
And will show him my salvation.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

12,1-12.

]Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.
]At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.
]But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
]Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully.
]He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed.
]He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'
]But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
]So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
]What (then) will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others.
]Have you not read this scripture passage: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
]by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes'?"
]They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away.

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St. Felix I(Pope and Martyr († 274))

SAINT FELIX I Pope and Martyr ( 274) Pope Felix was St. Dionysius' sucessor. He was consecrated in the year 269. Like his predecessor, he rallied the Church during an era of persecution. Pope Felix's biography begins with the work of unifying a Church under attack from heresies. The third council of Antioch in 269 refuted Paul of Samosata's teaching that Jesus was a man who became divine. Paul of Samosata forfeited his bishopric, but only exited after being expelled by the pagan emperor. The narrator Alban Butler writes about St. Felix's end:"The persecution of Aurelian breaking out, St. Felix, fearless of danger, strengthened the weak, encouraged all, baptized the catechumens and continued to exert himself in converting persons to the Faith." He was martyred like the Apostles in 274.

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St. Joan of Arc(Heroine (1412-1431))

SAINT JOAN OF ARC Heroine (1412-1431) Saint Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412, in Domremy, northeastern France. From her earliest years, she prayed each night: "O God, save France." She thus conceived an ardent love for her country. While the English overran northern France, Joan peacefully tended her flock and learned God's wisdom through prayer at a wayside shrine. She received locutions and a vision of Saint Michael the Archangel. The Archangel bid her to liberate France from the English. Thus, she hastened to the king and convinced him of her divine mission. Scarcely did her banner - inscribed, "Jesus, Mary" - appear on the battlefield when the siege of Orleans was lifted. She afterward led Charles VII to be crowned in Rheims. She was later abandoned by the king and fell into the hands of the English, who gave her a mock trial and immolated her as a heretic. The Maid of Orleans at last came into her own: With greater pomp than ever a king was crowned, and amid the acclamations of the whole world, on May 13, 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized her Saint Joan of Arc.

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