Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, November 6 2017

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. Leonard((† c. 550))

SAINT LEONARD OF NOBLAC ( c. 550) St. Leonard was a nobleman and the advisor of King Clovis I. They were baptized together at Christmas in 496. St. Leonard's godfather was St. Remigius, the bishop of Reims. Instead of accepting a bishopric, St. Leonard preached in Aquitaine and ministered to prisoners. He distanced himself from influential roles and eventually trained disciples as a hermit: first at the monastery of Micy near Orleans and afterward in the solitude of Noblac near Limoges. He founded an abbey in Noblac; and the town of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat is named after him. St. Leonard's charity accustomed him to remain active in works of mercy: visiting prisoners and the sick. Several crusaders attributed their release from captivity to his intercession. He is the patron saint of captives and prisoners.

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