Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, October 1 2018

Monday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Job

1,6-22.

]One day, when the angels of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
]And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence do you come?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming the earth and patrolling it."
]And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you noticed my servant Job, and that there is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil?"
]But Satan answered the LORD and said, "Is it for nothing that Job is God-fearing?
]Have you not surrounded him and his family and all that he has with your protection? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock are spread over the land.
]But now put forth your hand and touch anything that he has, and surely he will blaspheme you to your face."
]And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand upon his person." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
]And so one day, while his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
]a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the asses grazing beside them,
]and the Sabeans carried them off in a raid. They put the herdsmen to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
]While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "Lightning has fallen from heaven and struck the sheep and their shepherds and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
]While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three columns, seized the camels, carried them off, and put those tending them to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
]While he was yet speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
]when suddenly a great wind came across the desert and smote the four corners of the house. It fell upon the young people and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
]Then Job began to tear his cloak and cut off his hair. He cast himself prostrate upon the ground,
]and said, "Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I go back again. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD!"
]In all this Job did not sin, nor did he say anything disrespectful of God.

Psalm

Psalms

17(16),1.2-3.6-7.

]Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
]From you let my judgment come;
Your eyes behold what is right.
]Though you test my heart, searching it in the night,
though you try me with fire, you shall find no malice in me.
]I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
]Show your wondrous mercies,
O savior of those who flee from their foes

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,46-50.

]An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
]Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child and placed it by his side
]and said to them, "Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest."
]Then John said in reply, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow in our company."
]Jesus said to him, "Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you."

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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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