Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, October 5 2019
Saturday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time
Saturday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time
1. ReadingBook of Baruch
4,5-12.27-29.]Fear not, my people! Remember, Israel,
]You were sold to the nations not for your destruction; It was because you angered God that you were handed over to your foes.
]For you provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons, to no-gods;
]You forsook the Eternal God who nourished you, and you grieved Jerusalem who fostered you.
]She indeed saw coming upon you the anger of God; and she said: "Hear, you neighbors of Zion! God has brought great mourning upon me,
]For I have seen the captivity that the Eternal God has brought upon my sons and daughters.
]With joy I fostered them; but with mourning and lament I let them go.
]Let no one gloat over me, a widow, bereft of many: For the sins of my children I am left desolate, because they turned from the law of God,
]Fear not, my children; call out to God! He who brought this upon you will remember you.
]As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times the more to seek him;
]For he who has brought disaster upon you will, in saving you, bring you back enduring joy."
Psalms
69(68),33-35.36-37.]“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
]For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
]Let the heavens and the earth sing praise,
the seas and whatever moves in them!"
]For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
]They shall dwell in the land and own it,
and the descendants of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall inhabit it.
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."
Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos(Priest (1819-1867))
Bl. Francis Xavier SeelosPriest(1819-1867) Bl. Francis Seelos was born in Füssen, Bavaria, Germany, on January 11, 1819. He was baptized that day at the parish church. He was one of 12 children born to Mang and Frances Schwarzenbach Seelos. From his earliest years, he expressed a desire for the priesthood. As an adult, he studied philosophy and theology in Munich. In Munich, Bl. Francis Seelos was touched by letters that were published in the Catholic newspaper Sion, which described the lack of spiritual care for German-speaking immigrants. After visiting the Redemptorists in Altötting, he decided to enter the Congregation and asked to be allowed to work as a missionary in the United States. On December 22, 1844, Bl. Francis Seelos was ordained a priest in Baltimore, Maryland. He was assigned for six years to St. Philomena’s Parish in Pittsburgh as an assistant to St. John Neumann. Regarding their relationship, Bl. Francis said, "He has introduced me to the active life" and "has guided me as a spiritual director and confessor." Along with several years of parish ministry in Maryland, Bl. Francis Seelos trained Redemptorist students. His availability and innate kindness in understanding and responding to the needs of the faithful made him a well-known confessor and spiritual director. People sought him out from neighboring towns. His confessional was open to all: "I hear confessions in German, English, French, of Whites and of Blacks." He practiced a simple lifestyle and a simple manner of expressing himself. The themes of his preaching, rich in Biblical content, were always understood by his varied listeners. Bl. Francis Seelos was described as a man with a constant smile and a generous heart, especially toward the marginalized. For several years, he preached in English and German throughout the Midwest and in the Middle Atlantic states. Assigned to St. Mary of the Assumption Church community in New Orleans, he zealously served his Redemptorist confreres and parishioners. In 1867, he passed away from yellow fever, which he contracted while visiting the sick.
St. Mary Faustina Kowalska(Prophetess (1905-1938))
SAINT MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKAProphetess (1905-1938) Sister Mary Faustina is the apostle of the Divine Mercy. She received the Three O'Clock Prayer and Divine Mercy Chaplet, which are simple to recite, but are immensely-powerful channels of grace. She was born on August 25, 1905, the third of ten children, in Głogowiec, Poland, to a poor and religious farming family. She was baptized with the name Helena in the parish Church of Świnice Warckich. Her formation in working with love for God set a firm foundation for spiritual life. At the age of 9, she made her first Holy Communion: living this moment very profoundly in her awareness of the presence of the Divine Guest within her soul. She attended school for three years. At 16, she left home and went to work as a housekeeper in Aleksandrów, Łodzi i Ostrówek, to find the means of supporting herself and helping her parents. She had already felt the first stirrings of a religious vocation at age 7. After finishing school, she wanted to enter the convent, but her parents disagreed. After receiving a vision of the Suffering Christ, on August 1, 1925, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and took the name Sister Mary Faustina. She lived in the Congregation for thirteen years and lived in several religious houses. She spent time in Kraków, Płock and Vilnius, where she worked as a cook, gardener and porter. She was recollected and at the same time very natural, serene and full of kindness and disinterested love for her neighbors. Although her life was apparently ordinary, her interior life hid an extraordinary union with God. Sr. Mary Faustina cooperated with God's mercy in the task of saving lost souls. "O my Jesus, each of Your saints reflects one of Your virtues; I desire to reflect Your compassionate heart, full of mercy; I want to glorify it. Let Your mercy, O Jesus, be impressed upon my heart and soul like a seal, and this will be my badge in this and the future life" (Diary 1242). At the specific request of the Lord, and following His example, she sacrificed her own life for this very goal. She also distinguished herself with a love of the Eucharist and a deep devotion to the Mother of Mercy. Her years at the convent were filled with extraordinary gifts, including revelations, visions, hidden stigmata, participation in the Passion of the Lord, the gift of bilocation, the reading of human souls, the gift of prophecy, and the rare gift of mystical engagement and marriage. The living relationship with God, the Blessed Mother, the Angels, the Saints, the souls in Purgatory - with the entire supernatural world - was as equally real for her as the world she perceived with her senses. In spite of being so richly endowed with extraordinary graces, Sr. Mary Faustina knew that they do not in fact constitute sanctity. In her Diary, she wrote: "Neither graces, nor revelations, nor raptures, nor gifts granted to a soul make it perfect, but rather the intimate union of the soul with God. These gifts are merely ornaments of the soul, but constitute neither its essence nor its perfection. My sanctity and perfection consist in the close union of my will with the will of God" (Diary 1107). The Lord Jesus chose Sr. Mary Faustina as the Apostle and "Secretary" of His mercy. "In the Old Covenant (He said to her), I sent prophets wielding thunderbolts to My people. Today, I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart" (Diary 1588). Sister Mary Faustina's mission consists of 3 tasks:- Reminding the world of the truth revealed in Holy Scripture about the merciful love of God toward every human being.- Entreating God's mercy for the whole world and particularly for sinners through devotions: Venerating the image of the Divine Mercy with the inscription, "Jesus, I Trust in You," the feast of the Divine Mercy celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, chaplet to the Divine Mercy, and prayer at the Hour of Mercy (3 p.m.). The Lord Jesus attached great promises to the above forms of devotion, provided one entrusted one's life to God and practiced active love of one's neighbor.- Initiating the apostolic movement of the Divine Mercy, which undertakes the task of proclaiming and entreating God's mercy for the world and strives for Christian perfection. St. Faustina's precepts require the faithful to display an attitude of child-like trust in God, which expresses itself in fulfilling His will as well as in the attitude of mercy toward one's neighbors. Sr. Mary Faustina's mission was recorded in her diary, which she kept at the specific request of the Lord Jesus and her confessors. In it, she recorded faithfully all of the Lord's wishes, and also described the encounters between Him and her soul. The Lord said to her, "Your task is to write down everything that I make known to you about My mercy, for the benefit of those who, by reading these things, will be comforted in their souls and will have the courage to approach Me" (Diary 1693). The Diary has been translated into many languages, among others, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak. Sister Mary Faustina was afflicted with tuberculosis and physical suffering, which she accepted as a voluntary sacrifice for sinners. On October 5, 1938, she passed away in Krakow at the age of 33. Her reputation for spiritual maturity, mystical union with God and holiness grew, along with the cult to the Divine Mercy and the graces obtained from God through her intercession. From 1965 to 1967, the investigative process into her life and heroic virtues was undertaken in Kraków. In 1968, the Beatification Process was initiated in Rome, and completed on December 1992. On April 18, 1993, Pope John Paul II declared St. Faustina's holiness. Her canonization took place on April 4, 2000. Her resting place is in the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy in Kraków-Łagiewniki.
St. Placid(Martyr (6th century))
SAINT PLACID Martyr(6th century) St. Placid was born in Rome to a patrician family in 515. When he was 7, his father brought him to the monastery of Subiaco. At 13 years old, he followed St. Benedict to the new foundation in Monte Casino. There, he grew up in the practice of piety and innocence of life. St. Placid had scarcely turned 21 when he was selected to establish a monastery on Sicilian estates that his father had given to St. Benedict. He spent four years building the monastery; and a fifth had not elapsed when a horde of barbarians burned everything to the ground. St. Placid was martyred together with thirty monks and his two brothers, Eutychius and Victorinus, and his holy sister Flavia. The monastery was eventually rebuilt with St. Placid as its patron. As we celebrate their lives and sacrifice, let us reflect on their heroic virtues and unfailing intercession: "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever" (Ps. 107:1).
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