Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Galatians

1,13-24.

Brothers and sisters: You heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,
and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
But when (God), who from my mother's womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased
to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Kephas and remained with him for fifteen days.
But I did not see any other of the apostles, only James the brother of the Lord.
(As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;
they only kept hearing that "the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
So they glorified God because of me.

Psalms

139(138),1-3.13-14ab.14c-15.

O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;
you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother's womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works.
My soul also you knew full well;
nor was my frame unknown to you
when I was made in secret,
when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

10,38-42.

Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me."
The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.
There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."

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St. Demetrius(Martyr († c. 306))

SAINT DEMETRIUS OF SIRMIUM Martyr ( c. 306) St. Demetrius was a Roman army officer and a deacon. His spirit and fervor of the saints was attained through unceasing prayer and the sacraments. With his spirit thus disposed, he witnessed to Christ before the world. St. Demetrius was appointed Duke of Thessaly by Emperor Maximian. However, he was later arrested for being Christian. After a brief imprisonment in a bathhouse, he was taken to Sirmium, modern Serbia, and impaled with spears. St. Demetrius was reported to have appeared during a battle in 586 to defend Thessaloniki. Over 200 churches in the Balkans are dedicated to him. His relics are kept with veneration at the Hagios Demetrios Basilica in Thessaloniki.

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