Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, November 18 2016
Friday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Revelation
10,8-11.]I John heard a voice from heaven speak to me saying, "Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
]So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, "Take and swallow it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey."
]I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and swallowed it. In my mouth it was like sweet honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
]Then someone said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
Psalms
119(118),14.24.72.103.111.131.]In the way of your decrees I rejoice,
as much as in all riches.
]Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
]The law of your mouth is to me more precious
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
]How sweet to my palate are your promises,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
]Your decrees are my inheritance forever;
the joy of my heart they are.
]I gasp with open mouth,
in my yearning for your commands.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
19,45-48.]Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things,
]saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.'"
]And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death,
]but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne(Religious (1769-1852))
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1769-1852) Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne was born on August 29, 1769, in Grenoble, France. She was baptized at the Church of St. Louis and named after Rose of Lima and Philip the apostle. She was educated at the Convent of the Visitation of Ste. Marie d'en Haut and became a novice at 18 years old. During the French Revolution, St. Rose's community was dispersed and she returned to her family's home. She spent her time nursing prisoners and those in need. After the Concordat of 1801, she and her companions unsuccessfully tried to reconstruct the monastery of Ste. Marie. In 1804, St. Rose learned of a new congregation, the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and offered herself and the monastery to its foundress, Mother Madeleine Sophie Barat. Mother Barat visited Ste. Marie in 1804 and received St. Rose and several companions as novices in the Society. While St. Rose's desire for the consecrated life deepened, so too her call to the missions became more urgent: a call she had heard since adolescence. In a letter to Mother Barat, she confided her spiritual experience during a night of adoration on Holy Thursday: "I spent the entire night in the new World ... carrying the Blessed Sacrament to all parts of the land ... I had all my sacrifices to offer: a mother, sisters, family, my mountain! When you say to me 'now I send you,' I will respond quickly 'I go."' However, she would wait another 12 years. In 1818, St. Rose's dream was realized. She was sent to the bishop of the Louisiana territory who was looking for a congregation of educators to teach the native and French children. Near St. Louis, Missouri, in St. Charles, she founded the first house of the Society outside France. It was in a log cabin; and with it came all the austerities of frontier life: extreme cold, hard work and lack of funds. She also had difficulty learning English. Communication at best was slow and news often did not arrive from France. Despite setbacks, St. Rose and four other religious of the Sacred Heart forged ahead. In 1820, they opened the first free school west of the Mississippi. By 1828, they had founded six houses. These schools were for the young women of Missouri and Louisiana. St. Rose also yearned to serve the natives. When she was 72 and no longer superior, a school for the Potawatomi was opened in Sugar Creek, Kansas. Many thought she was too sick, but the Jesuit head of the mission insisted: "She must come; she may not be able to do much work, but she will assure success to the mission by praying for us. Her very presence will draw down all manner of heavenly favors on the work." St. Rose was with the Potawatomi for a year before her health declined. However, her pioneer courage did not weaken. Her long hours of contemplation impelled the natives to name her Quah-kah-ka-num-ad, "Woman-Who-Prays-Always." In July 1842, she returned to St. Charles, Missouri. She never lost her desire for the missions; and wrote, "I feel the same longing for the Rocky Mountain missions, and any others like them, that I experienced in France when I first begged to come to America..." St. Rose Philippine Duchesne passed away in St. Charles, Missouri, on November 18, 1852, at 83 years old. The miracles from her intercession and her heroic virtues prove that she attained the beatific vision.
St. Odo of Cluny((† 942))
SAINT ODO OF CLUNY ( 942) On Christmas Eve in 877, a nobleman from Aquitaine implored Jesus and Mary to grant him a son. In response to prayer, Odo was conceived. Before his birth, Odo was consecrated to the Holy Spirit and Saint Martin. Odo was a charismatic and talented youth. Instead of joining the aristocracy, he began a novitiate at St. Martin in Tours. After some discernment, he took the habit of St. Benedict in Baume, south-eastern France. Later, he was elected abbot of the great abbey in Cluny. The pope often directed Odo to act as peacemaker between warring princes. It was on one of these missions that he fell ill. At his entreaty, he was borne from Rome to Tours in 942 and passed away at his own St. Martin's.
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