Monday of the Thirty-first week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Philippians

Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy,
complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing.
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
each looking out not for his own interests, but (also) everyone for those of others.

Psalms

O LORD, my heart is not proud,
nor are my eyes haughty;
I busy not myself with great things,
nor with things too sublime for me.
Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted
my soul like a weaned child.
Like a weaned child on its mother's lap,
so is my soul within me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD,
both now and forever.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

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."

St. Charles Borromeo(Archbishop of Milan († 1584))

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEOArchbishop of Milan(1538-1584) Fifty years after the Protestant heresy began, Our Lord raised up a youth to renew the Church. In 1560, St. Charles Borromeo, then 22, was elected cardinal. He and his uncle, Pius IV, administered the Holy See. Charles' first care was the direction of the Council of Trent. He urged its sessions forward, guided it with correspondence from Rome and carried it to its conclusion. Then he began a more arduous work: the execution of its decrees. As the archbishop of Milan, St. Charles enforced the reforms of the Council of Trent and restored the discipline of his see. He founded schools for the poor and seminaries for clerics, and trained his priests to perfection. He maintained clerical discipline while serving as a tender father. He would sit by the roadside to teach a poor man the Pater and the Ave and would enter hovels to administer the sacraments of Christ. During the plague, St. Charles stayed in Milan to minister to the sick and dying. He even sold his bed to support the work. He passed away while following the Good Shepherd and was brought by God to Heaven.

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 cultivated his spirit and faith. After his parents' unjust divorce, St. Felix's resolution to begin 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 gained St. Bernard's approval to depart for Italy, where he led an austere life with an aged hermit. When his spiritual director passed away, St. Felix returned to France and lived as a solitary in Cerfroid. There, God inspired him to found an order for the ransoming of Christian slaves. St. John of Matha, moved by a similar impulse, joined St. Felix. Together, they founded the Order of the Holy Trinity. Once the 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 protecting the Trinitarians and receiving prayers for intercession. Like St. Felix, 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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