Wednesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

First Letter to the Corinthians

Brothers and sisters: In regard to virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
So this is what I think best because of the present distress: that it is a good thing for a person to remain as he is.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a separation. Are you free of a wife? Then do not look for a wife.
If you marry, however, you do not sin, nor does an unmarried woman sin if she marries; but such people will experience affliction in their earthly life, and I would like to spare you that.
I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them,
those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning,
those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

Psalms

Hear, O daughter, and see; turn your ear,
Forget your people and your father's house.
So shall the king desire your beauty;
for he is your lord. and you must worship him.
All glorious is the king's daughter as she enters;
Her raiment is threaded with spun gold.
In embroidered apparel she is borne in to the king;
behind her the virgins of her train are brought to you.
They are borne in with gladness and joy;
they enter the palace of the king.
The place of your fathers your sons shall have;
You shall make them princes through all the land.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

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.”

St. Paphnutius(Bishop (4th century))

SAINT PAPHNUTIUSBishop(4th centtury) Paphnutius was an Egyptian who defended the Church's Deposit of Faith. After mentoring under St. Antony in the desert for several years, he was consecrated bishop in Upper Thebais. He was one of the confessors who, under the tyrant Maximin Daia, lost his right eye and was enslaved in the mines. When peace was restored, Bp. Paphnutius returned to his flock. The Arian heresy was dividing the Church, so Bp. Paphnutius arose to defend it. 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. Bp. Paphnutius remained in contact with St. Athanasius. He accompanied the latter to the Council of Tyre in 335 where they found the greater part of the assembly to be professed Arians. Seeing Maximus, the bishop of Jerusalem, among the Arians, Bp. Paphnutius took him aside and said that no one who bore the same marks as he did should be cowed or affected by those who deny Christianity's fundamental article. We have no particular account of Bp. Paphnutius' death, but his name is in the Roman Martyrology on September 11.

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. Their heroic humility is a reflection of Jesus Christ.

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