Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, September 11 2019

Wednesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Colossians

3,1-11.

]Brothers and sisters:  If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,  where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
]Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
]For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
]When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.
]Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.
]Because of these the wrath of God is coming (upon the disobedient).
]By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way.
]But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths.
]Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices
]and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator.
]Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all.

Psalm

Psalms

145(144),2-3.10-11.12-13ab.

]Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
]Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable.
]Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
]Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
]Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
]Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
]and your dominion endures through all generations.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

6,20-26.

]Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.
]Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh.
]Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
]Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
]But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
]But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.
]Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”

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St. Paphnutius(Bishop (4th century))

SAINT PAPHNUTIUSBishop(4th centtury) St. Paphnutius was an Egyptian. He mentored under St. Antony in the desert before being consecrated bishop in Upper Thebais. He was a confessor who lost his right eye under the tyrant Maximin Daia and was enslaved in the mines. When peace was restored, St. Paphnutius returned to his flock. As a confessor (one who had confessed the Faith under torments), he was highly regarded at the great Council of Nice. Constantine the Great conferred privately with the Bishop and reverently kissed the place where the latter had lost an eye. St. Paphnutius remained in contact with St. Athanasius. He accompanied the latter to the Council of Tyre in 335 and found the greater part of the assembly to be professed Arians. Seeing seeing Bishop Maximus of Jerusalem among the Arians, St. Paphnutius took him aside and said that no one who bore the same marks as he did should be led by those who deny Christianity's fundamental article. We have no particular account of St. Paphnutius' passing, but his name is in the Roman Martyrology on September 11.

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Sts. Protus & Hyacinth(Martyrs († c. 260))

Saints Protus and HyacinthMartyrs ( c. 260) Commemoration In Rome, on the old Salarian Way, at the cemetery of Basilla, the birthday of the holy martyrs Protus and Hyacinth is celebrated. They were brothers and eunuchs in the service of Blessed Eugenia. Protus and Hyacinth were arrested and prosecuted for being Christians during the reign of Emperor Gallienus. When they refused to offer pagan sacrifice, they were scourged and beheaded. Protus and Hyacinth are forever alive with Christ because the principle of death - sin - was completely cancelled in them. They await us in our true native land together with Jesus and Mary, Help of Christians.

Oración

May the precious witness of your blessed Martyrs,
Protus and Hyacinth,
comfort us, O Lord,
and may their kind intercession continually protectus

The Roman Breviary

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St. Adelphus()

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