Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Job

3,1-3.11-17.20-23.

Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
Job spoke out and said:
Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, "The child is a boy!"
Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?
For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest
With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins
Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.
Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?
There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.
Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?
They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,
Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:
Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!

Psalms

88(87),2-3.4-5.6.7-8.

LORD, my God, by day I cry out;
at night I clamour in your presence.
Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry.
For my soul is filled with troubles;
my life draws near to Sheol.
I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit;
I am weak, without strength.
My couch is among the dead,
with the slain who lie in the grave.
Whom you remember no longer
and who are cut off from your care.
You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
Upon me your wrath lies heavy,
and with all your billows you overwhelm me.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,51-56.

When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem,
and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there,
but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.
When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?"
Jesus turned and rebuked them,
and they journeyed to another village.

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St. Vincent de Paul(Priest (1576-1660) - Memorial)

SAINT VINCENT OF PAUL Priest (1576-1660) St. Vincent was humble and a temple of the Holy Spirit. When advisor to the queen and oracle of the Church in France, he loved to recount how, in his youth, he guarded his father's pigs. St. Vincent's trials began soon after his ordination. Scarcely ordained a priest, he was captured by corsairs and carried into Barbary. St. Vincent then converted his renegade master and escaped with him to France. Appointed chaplain-general of the galleys of France, St. Vincent's charity brought hope to despairing prisoners. His charity embraced the poor, provinces desolated by civil war, and Christians enslaved by Mohammedans. St. Vincent did not see bodies, but souls. Poor and bedraggled people were, to him the image of Christ. "Turn the medal," he said, "and you will see Jesus Christ." St. Vincent also enabled the wealthy to do works of mercy. When an orphanage was in danger of closing from lack of funds, he received aid from the ladies of the Association of Charity. One narrator paraphrased him saying, "Compassion and charity made you adopt these little ones as your children. You became their mothers according to grace, when their own mothers abandoned them. Cease to be their mothers and you may become their judges..." The tears of the assembly and a resounding yes were his answer, and the work was continued. The Society of St. Vincent, the Priests of the Mission, and twenty-five thousand Sisters of Charity still serve the poor and afflicted to this day.

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