Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, November 4 2019

Monday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Romans

11,29-36.

]Brothers and sisters: The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
]Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
]so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may (now) receive mercy.
]For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
]Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
]"For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?"
]"Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?"
]For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Psalm

Psalms

69(68),30-31.33-34.36-37.

]I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me.
]I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
]“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
]For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
]For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
]They shall dwell in the land and own it,
and the descendants of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall inhabit it.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

14,12-14.

]On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment.
]Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
]blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

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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.

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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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