Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, October 11 2019
Friday of the Twenty-seventh week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Twenty-seventh week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Joel
1,13-15.2,1-2.]Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of your God is deprived of offering and libation.
]Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, Into the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD!
]Alas, the day! for near is the day of the LORD, and it comes as ruin from the Almighty.
]Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming;
]Yes, it is near, a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and somberness! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a people numerous and mighty! Their like has not been from of old, nor will it be after them, even to the years of distant generations.
Psalms
9(9A),2-3.6.16.8-9.]I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart;
I will declare all your wondrous deeds.
]I will delight and exult in your name;
I will sing hymns to your name, Most High.
]You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
their name you blotted out forever and ever.
]The nations are sunk in the pit they have made;
in the snare they set, their foot is caught.
]But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has set up his throne for judgment.
]He judges the world with justice;
he governs the peoples with equity.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
11,15-26.]When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said: "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons."
]Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.
]But he knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house.
]And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
]If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
]But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
]When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe.
]But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils.
]Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."
]When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it roams through arid regions searching for rest but, finding none, it says, 'I shall return to my home from which I came.'
]But upon returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order.
]Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits more wicked than itself who move in and dwell there, and the last condition of that person is worse than the first."
St. Tarachus and his Companions(Martyrs († 304))
SAINT TARACHUS and his Companions Martyrs ( 304) In 304 A.D., Tarachus, Probus and Andronicus were arrested and martyred. Their crime was freedom of speech and faith in Jesus Christ. They were arrested during Emperor Diocletian's reign, which was described as the worst in 250 years of persecution. St. Tarachus and his companions were arrested in Pompeiopolis. They were then imprisoned in Tharsis and tortured. A second examination occured in Mopsuestia and third occured in Anazarbis. In spite of repeated torture, their faith remained unshaken. The governor eventually sentenced them to capital punishment. St. Tarachus and his companions were thrown to hungry lions in the amphitheater. However, the lions crouched at St. Tarachus' feet and nursed his wounds. The judge then had St. Tarachus and his companions killed by gladiators.
St. Damien de Veuster(Priest (1840-1889))
St. Damien of MolokaiPriest (1840-1889) St. Damien left his Order to serve victims of leprosy in Molokai, Hawaii. He was born in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840. He was christened Joseph. In adulthood, he joined the Sacred Hearts Fathers and received the name Damien at 20 years old. In 1864, he was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii and ordained. For the next nine years, he worked in missions on the Big Island, Hawaii. In 1873, St. Damien volunteered to permanently live and work in Molokai's leper colony. He cared for all victims, including children who were also segregated.In 1885, he was diagnosed with leprosy. He continued building hospitals, clinics, churches and some six hundred coffins until passing away on April 15, 1889. St. Damien was declared venerable in 1977 and beatified on June 4, 1995, by Pope John Paul II. He was canonized on October 11, 2009 in Rome, in the presence of King Albert II of the Belgians and Queen Paola, as well as the Belgian Prime Minister and several cabinet ministers. "Not without fear and loathing," Pope Benedict said, "Fr. Damian made the choice to go on the island of Molokai in the service of lepers ... The servant of the Word became a suffering servant, leper with the lepers during the last four years of his life. ... To follow Christ, Father Damian not only left his homeland, but also staked his health. So he, as the word of Jesus in today's Gospel tells us, received eternal life."
St. Firminus()
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