Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, October 1 2016

Saturday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Job

42,1-3.5-6.12-17.

]Job answered the LORD and said:
]I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
]I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know.
]I had heard of you by word of mouth, but now my eye has seen you.
]Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes.
]Thus the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his earlier ones. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
]And he had seven sons and three daughters,
]of whom he called the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
]In all the land no other women were as beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
]After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; and he saw his children, his grandchildren, and even his great-grandchildren.
]Then Job died, old and full of years.

Psalm

Psalms

119(118),66.71.75.91.125.130.

]Teach me wisdom and knowledge,
for in your commands I trust.
]It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
]I know, O LORD, that your ordinances are just,
and in your faithfulness you have afflicted me.
]According to your ordinances they still stand firm:
all things serve you.
]I am your servant; give me discernment
that I may know your decrees.
]The revelation of your words sheds light,
giving understanding to the simple.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

10,17-24.

]The seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing and said to Jesus, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name."
]Jesus said, "I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
]Behold, I have given you the power 'to tread upon serpents' and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.
]Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
]At that very moment he rejoiced (in) the holy Spirit and said, "I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
]All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."
]Turning to the disciples in private he said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
]For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."

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St. Therese of Lisieux(Virgin and Doctor of the Church (1873-1897) - Memorial)

Saint Therese of LisieuxVirgin and Doctor of the Church(1873-1897) Thérèse Martin was born in Alençon, France, on January 2, 1873. Two days later, she was baptized Marie Frances Thérèse at Notre Dame Church. Her parents were Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin. After her mother's passing on August 28, 1877, the family moved to Lisieux. Toward the end of 1879, Thérèse went to confession for the first time. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1883, she received the singular grace of being healed from a serious illness through the intercession of Our Lady of Victories. Taught by the Benedictine Nuns of Lisieux, and after an intense immediate preparation culminating in a vivid experience of intimate union with Christ, she received First Holy Communion on May 8, 1884. Some weeks later, on June 14, she received the Sacrament of Confirmation, fully aware of accepting the Holy Spirit and the grace of Pentecost. Thérèse wanted to embrace the contemplative life as her sisters Pauline and Marie had done in the Carmel of Lisieux, but was prevented by her young age. After she visited the House of Loreto and the holy places of the Eternal City, during an audience granted by Pope Leo XIII to Lisieux's pilgrims on November 20, 1887, she asked the Holy Father with childlike daring to be able to enter the Carmel at the age of 15. On April 9, 1888, she entered the Carmel of Lisieux. She received the habit on January 10, 1889. She made her religious profession on September 8, 1890, on the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Carmel, Sr. Thérèse embraced the way of perfection outlined by the Foundress, Saint Teresa of Jesus. She fulfilled her community responsibilities with genuine fervor and fidelity. Her faith was tested by the sickness of her beloved father, Louis Martin, who passed away on July 29, 1894. She grew in sanctity, enlightened by the Word of God and inspired by the Gospel to place love at the center of everything. In her autobiographical manuscripts, she left us not only her recollections of childhood and adolescence, but also a portrait of her soul and spiritual experiences. She discovered the little way of spiritual childhood and taught it to the novices entrusted to her care. She considered it a special gift to receive the charge of accompanying two "missionary brothers" with prayer and sacrifice. Seized by the love of Christ, her only Spouse, Sr. Thérèse penetrated ever more deeply into the mystery of the Church and became increasingly aware of her apostolic and missionary vocation to draw everyone in her path. On June 9, 1895, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sr. Thérèse offered herself as a sacrificial victim to the merciful Love of God. At this time, she wrote her first autobiographical manuscript, which she presented to Mother Agnes on January 21, 1896. On April 3, on the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, she suffered a haemoptysis, the first sign of the illness that would claim her life. She welcomed this event as a mysterious visitation of the Divine Spouse. From this point forward, Sr. Thérèse entered a trial of faith that would last until her death. In September 1896, Sr. Thérèse completed Manuscript B, which gave striking evidence of her spiritual maturity, particularly the discovery of her vocation in the heart of the Church. Her health declined even further and the time of trial continued. In June 1897, she began work on Manuscript C and dedicated it to Mother Marie de Gonzague. New graces led her to higher perfection and she discovered fresh insights for the diffusion of her message in the Church. Sr. Thérèse was transferred to the infirmary on July 8, 1897. Meanwhile, her sisters and other religious women collected her sayings. Although her sufferings and trials intensified, she bore the pain with heroic virtue. She accepted them with patience up to the moment of her death in the afternoon of September 30, 1897. "I am not dying, I am entering life," she wrote to her missionary spiritual brother, Father M. Bellier. Her final words, "My God..., I love you!", seal a life that was completed on earth at age 24. Thus began, as was her desire, a new phase of apostolic presence on behalf of souls in the Communion of Saints. St. Thérèse was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925. The same pope proclaimed her Universal Patron of the Missions, alongside Saint Francis Xavier, on December 14, 1927. Her teaching and example of holiness has been received with great enthusiasm by all sectors of the faithful, as well as by people outside the Catholic Church and outside Christianity. On the occasion of the centenary of her passing, many Episcopal Conferences asked the pope to declare her a Doctor of the Church: in view of the soundness of her spiritual wisdom inspired by the Gospel, the originality of her theological intuitions, and the universal acceptance of her spiritual message, which has been welcomed throughout the world and spread by the translation of her works into over fifty languages.Mindful of these requests, Pope John Paul II asked the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in consultation with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with regard to her teaching, to study the suitability of proclaiming St. Thérèse a Doctor of the Church. On August 24, at the close of the Eucharistic Celebration at the Twelfth World Youth Day in Paris, in the presence of hundreds of bishops and an immense crowd of young people from every nation, Pope John Paul II announced his intention to proclaim Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face a Doctor of the Universal Church on World Mission Sunday, October 19, 1997.

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