Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, September 19 2018

Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Corinthians

12,31.13,1-13.

]Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
]If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
]And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
]If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
]it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
]it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
]It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
]Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
]For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
]but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
]When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
]At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
]So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Psalm

Psalms

33(32),2-3.4-5.12.22.

]Give thanks to the LORD on the harp;
with the ten stringed lyre chant his praises.
]Sing to him a new song;
pluck the strings skillfully, with shouts of gladness.
]For upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
]He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.
]Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
]May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

7,31-35.

]Jesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
]They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, 'We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.'
]For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, 'He is possessed by a demon.'
]The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, 'Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.'
]But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

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St. Januarius(Bishop and Martyr († 305))

ST. JANUARIUS Bishop and Martyr ( 305) St. Januarius was the bishop of Beneventum, Italy. He was martyred together with countless others during Diocletian's reign. In honor of St. Januarius' sacrifice, God established an unceasing miracle. St. Januarius travelled to Misenum to visit Deacon Sosius during Diocletian's persecution. In a vision, St. Januarius saw Dcn. Sosius' head girt with flames.Before long, Dcn. Sosius was arrested and cast into prison. St. Januarius visited him and was later arrested. Following a Roman examination, they were sentenced to be devoured by lions at the amphitheater. The animals, however, did not harm them. The governor of Campania then had them beheaded. St. Januarius' relics are venerated in the Naples Cathedral. His blood is congealed in an ampoule and liquefies whenever it is brought near his head.

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