Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, November 18 2017
Saturday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time
Saturday of the Thirty-second week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Wisdom
18,14-16.19,6-9.]When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent,
]Your all-powerful word from heaven's royal throne bounded, a fierce warrior, into the doomed land,
]bearing the sharp sword of your inexorable decree. And as he alighted, he filled every place with death; he still reached to heaven, while he stood upon the earth.
]For all creation, in its several kinds, was being made over anew, serving its natural laws, that your children might be preserved unharmed.
]The cloud overshadowed their camp; and out of what had before been water, dry land was seen emerging: Out of the Red Sea an unimpeded road, and a grassy plain out of the mighty flood.
]Over this crossed the whole nation sheltered by your hand, after they beheld stupendous wonders.
]For they ranged about like horses, and bounded about like lambs, praising you, O LORD! their deliverer.
Psalms
105(104),2-3.36-37.42-43.]Sing to him, sing his praise,
proclaim all his wondrous deeds.
]Glory in his holy name;
rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD!
]He struck down every firstborn in the land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
]And he led them forth laden with silver and gold,
with not a weakling among their tribes.
]For he remembered his holy word
to his servant Abraham.
]And he led forth his people with joy;
with shouts of joy, his chosen ones.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
18,1-8.]Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said,
]"There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.
]And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, 'Render a just decision for me against my adversary.'
]For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, 'While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,
]because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.'"
]The Lord said, "Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
]Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them?
]I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
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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