Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, November 18 2019
Monday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time
Monday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time
1. Reading1st book of Maccabees
1,10-15.41-43.54-57.62-64.] there sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the year one hundred and thirty seven of the kingdom of the Greeks.
]In those days there appeared in Israel men who were breakers of the law, and they seduced many people, saying: "Let us go and make an alliance with the Gentiles all around us; since we separated from them, many evils have come upon us."
]The proposal was agreeable;
]some from among the people promptly went to the king, and he authorized them to introduce the way of living of the Gentiles.
]Thereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem according to the Gentile custom.
]They covered over the mark of their circumcision and abandoned the holy covenant; they allied themselves with the Gentiles and sold themselves to wrongdoing.
]Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,
]each abandoning his particular customs. All the Gentiles conformed to the command of the king,
]and many Israelites were in favor of his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath.
]On the fifteenth day of the month Chislev, in the year one hundred and forty-five, the king erected the horrible abomination upon the altar of holocausts, and in the surrounding cities of Judah they built pagan altars.
]They also burnt incense at the doors of houses and in the streets.
]Any scrolls of the law which they found they tore up and burnt.
]Whoever was found with a scroll of the covenant, and whoever observed the law, was condemned to death by royal decree.
]But many in Israel were determined and resolved in their hearts not to eat anything unclean;
]they preferred to die rather than to be defiled with unclean food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die. Terrible affliction was upon Israel.
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Psalms
119(118),53.61.134.150.155.158.]Indignation seizes me because of the wicked
who forsake your law.
]Though the snares of the wicked are twined about me,
your law I have not forgotten.
]Redeem me from the oppression of men,
that I may keep your precepts.
]I am attacked by malicious persecutors
who are far from your law.
]Far from sinners is salvation,
because they seek not your statutes.
]I beheld the apostates with loathing,
because they kept not to your promise.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
18,35-43.]As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging,
]and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening.
]They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by."
]He shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"
]The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"
]Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him,
]What do you want me to do for you? He replied, "Lord, please let me see."
]Jesus told him, "Have sight; your faith has saved you."
]He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God. When they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.
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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