Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, October 10 2016

Monday of the Twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Galatians

4,22-24.26-27.31.5,1.

]Brothers and sisters: It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman.
]The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise.
]Now this is an allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.
]But the Jerusalem above is freeborn, and she is our mother.
]For it is written: "Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children; break forth and shout, you who were not in labor; for more numerous are the children of the deserted one than of her who has a husband."
]Therefore, brothers, we are children not of the slave woman but of the freeborn woman.
]For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

Psalm

Psalms

113(112),1-2.3-4.5a.6-7.

]Praise, you servants of the LORD,
praise the name of the LORD.
]Blessed be the name of the LORD
both now and forever.
]From the rising to the setting of the sun
is the name of the LORD to be praised.
]High above all nations is the LORD;
above the heavens is his glory.
]Who is like the LORD, our God,
]who looks upon the heavens and the earth below?
]He raises up the lowly from the dust;
from the dunghill he lifts up the poor.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

11,29-32.

]While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.
]Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
]At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here.
]At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here."

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St. Francis Borgia(Priest (1510-1572))

SAINT FRANCIS BORGIAPriest (1510-1572) St. Francis Borgia was the duke of Gandia and captain-general of Catalonia. He had a burgeoning career when, in 1539, he escorted the remains of Queen Isabella to Granada's royal cemetery. When the coffin was opened, he was taken aback: he apprehended both spiritual decay and true death, and left seeking the person of God. Some time passed before St. Francis followed God's calling. He then joined the Society of Jesus to cut himself off from any chance of dignity or preferment. However, the Jesuits made him their superior general. When the Ottoman Empire threatened Christendom, St. Pius V sent his nephew to rally Christian princes into a league. The Pope chose St. Francis to accompany him, and although overworked, the Saint obeyed at once. Thanks to their efforts and the alliance of Spanish, Italian, Sicilian, Sardinian and Maltese forces, the Ottoman navy was stopped at the Battle of Lepanto and twelve thousand Christian slaves were freed from Ottoman galleys. The fatigues of the embassy exhausted St. Francis and he passed away during a return to Rome on October 10, 1572. His sacrifices and those of countless others helped stop the invasion of Europe and ensured our freedom forever.

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St. Ghislain()

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