Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, November 26 2018

Monday of the Thirty-fourth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Thirty-fourth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Revelation

14,1-3.4b-5.

]I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
]I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
]They were singing (what seemed to be) a new hymn before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from the earth.
]These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb.
]On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished.

Psalm

Psalms

24(23),1-2.3-4ab.5-6.

]The LORD's are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
]For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
]Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
]One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
]who desires not what is vain.
]He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
]Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

21,1-4.

]When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury
]and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.
]He said, "I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
]for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."

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St. Peter of Alexandria(Bishop and Martyr († 311))

SAINT PETER OF ALEXANDRIA, Bishop and Martyr ( 311) St. Peter governed the church in Alexandria during Diocletian's persecution. He was the first to excommunicate Melitius and Arius, the schismatics. He upheld the Apostles Creed and Traditions and shielded his flock from persecution. St. Peter resisted the efforts of heretics to divide the Church. "Heresy turns the mood against the mind," wrote GK Chesterton. Arius is perhaps the most notable schismatic who declared that Jesus Christ is a man and not God. In doing so, he predated the teachings of Islam on Jesus' divinity by 300-something years.

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St. Sylvester(Abbot († 1267))

Saint Sylvester Abbot ( 1267) St. Sylvester was a nobleman from Osimo, Picenum (modern Ancona, Italy). He possessed a keen intellect and was morally upright. After being instructed in sacred learning and made a canon, he became a model of piety and disinterested love. Upon verifying a relative's remains at a funeral, he was struck by the reality of sin and death. St. Sylvester went to a desert and conformed himself to Christ. He worked, meditated and exercised the norms of piety. He disciplined his urges through vigils, prayer and fasting. He gave his body a little less than it asked for (St. Jose Maria Escriva). St. Sylvester sometimes changed his dwelling place to secure his hermitic vocation. He eventually arrived in Monte Fano and built a church in honor of St. Benedict. In doing so, he laid the foundation of the Congregation of Sylvestrines. St. Sylvester guided monks in spiritual life and worked with docility to the Holy Spirit. With authority from his priestly character, he prophesied and exorcised demons. In 1267, he passed away and joined the Church Triumphant in heaven. St. Sylvester nurtured his faith for it to grow and encountered Christ in the ordinary moments of each day. The Catechism's teaching rings true: "Through a plan of sheer loving goodness, God created us; to communicate Himself to us and make us sharers in His own blessed life" (CCC 1). Let us emulate St. Sylvester in the norms of piety and daily prayers.

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St. Leonard of Port Maurice()

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