Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, November 4 2016
Friday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingLetter to the Philippians
3,17-21.4,1.]Join with others in being imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us.
]For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.
]Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their "shame." Their minds are occupied with earthly things.
]But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
]He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.
]Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, beloved.
Psalms
122(121),1-2.3-4a.4b-5.]I rejoiced because they said to me,
"We will go up to the house of the LORD."
]And now we have set foot
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
]Jerusalem, built as a city
with compact unity.
]To it the tribes go up,
]To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
]In it are set up judgment seats,
seats for the house of David.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
16,1-8.]Jesus said to his disciples, "A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property.
]He summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.'
]The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg.
]I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.'
]He called in his master's debtors one by one. To the first he said, 'How much do you owe my master?'
]He replied, 'One hundred measures of olive oil.' He said to him, 'Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.'
]Then to another he said, 'And you, how much do you owe?' He replied, 'One hundred kors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.'
]And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. "For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light."
St. Charles Borromeo(Archbishop of Milan († 1584))
SAINT CHARLES BORROMEOArchbishop of Milan(1538-1584) Fifty years after Protestantism started, Our Lord raised up a champion to renew the Church. In 1560, St. Charles Borromeo was elected cardinal. He and his uncle, Pope Pius IV, administered the Holy See. St. Charles' first care was directing the Council of Trent. He urged its sessions forward, guided it with correspondence from Rome and carried it to its conclusion. As archbishop, he enforced the reforms of the Council of Trent in Milan and restored the see's discipline. He founded schools for the poor, seminaries for clerics and trained his priests to perfection. He would sit by the roadside to teach a poor man the Pater and the Ave and would enter hovels to administer Christ's sacraments. St. Charles stayed in Milan during the plague and ministered to the sick and dying. He also sold his bed to support the work. He passed away following the Good Shepherd and was brought to Heaven. He is the patron saint of seminarians, bishops and cardinals.
St. Felix of Valois(Co-founder of the Trinitarians (1127-1212))
SAINT FELIX OF VALOIS Hermit and co-founder of the Trinitarians (1127-1212) St. Felix was a son of the Count of Valois. His mother helped cultivate his spirit and faith. After his parents' unjust divorce, his desire for religious life matured. He entrusted his mother to her pious brother, Thibault, the count of Champagne, and took the Cistercian habit in Clairvaux. St. Felix departed for Italy and became a hermit's disciple through St. Bernard's help. When his spiritual director passed away, St. Felix returned to France. He was a solitary in Cerfroid when God inspired him to found a religious order and ransom Christian slaves. St. John of Matha, moved by a similar impulse, joined St. Felix. Together, they founded the Order of the Holy Trinity. When their Order expanded, Sts. Felix and John made a pilgrimage to Rome and obtained Pope Innocent III's approbation. The Trinitarians ransomed Christians who were enslaved by the Moors. St. Felix thus spent the next 15 years organizing and developing his foundations. St. Felix passed away in 1212. He continues guiding the Trinitarians and receiving prayers for intercession. Like him, we should renew the image of Christ in others without human respect and entrust our endeavors to Mary, the Mother of God.
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