Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, October 24 2019

Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Romans

6,19-23.

]Brothers and sisters: I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
]For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
]But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
]But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.
]For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm

Psalms

1,1-2.3.4.6.

]Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
]But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
]He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
]Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
]For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

12,49-53.

]Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!
]There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
]Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
]From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
]a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

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St. Anthony Mary Claret(Archbishop (1807-1870))

SAINT ANTHONY MARY CLARET Claretian Archbishop and Founder (1807-1870) St. Anthony Claret founded the Claretians. Their schools and libraries trace back to his tireless missions. St. Anthony was also a reformer who championed the poor and carried out the Church's social teaching. St. Anthony was ordained in 1835 after recovering from an illness. He preached successfully and advocated for the poor. In spite of his good works, secular groups were scandalized. The threats made on St. Anthony's life caused his superiors to send him abroad. When he returned, he founded the Claretians. St. Anthony was elected archbishop of Cuba for his brilliant preaching and apostolic success. Before returning to Spain, he survived an assasination attempt. His reforms included public education, credit unions and racial equality. In 1857, St. Anthony was appointed confessor to Queen Isabella of Spain. While fulfilling his duties, he built hospitals, colleges and other institutes. Neither could forced exile prevent him frompreaching and pursuing missions for education. He passed away on October 24, 1870, at a Cistercian abbey in Fontfroide,Narbonne, southeastern France.

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St. Magloire(Bishop († c. 575))

SAINT MAGLOIRE Bishop ( c. 575) St. Magloire was born in Brittany toward the end of the fifth century. He was the cousin of St. Sampson. When they were adults, St. Magloire returned home and St. Sampson entered a monastery. St. Magloire's father Amon was miraculously cured from a dangerous disease through prayer. In thanksgiving, St. Magloire, Amon and Amon's wife gave their belongings to the poor and received the habit at St. Sampson's monastery. When St. Sampson was consecrated bishop, St. Magloire accompanied him in Armorica or Brittany. St. Magloire resigned his own bishopric at 70 years old and retired to a desert. Some time later, he transferred to the isle of Jersey. There, he founded another monastery and governed sixty monks. He passed away circa 575.

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