Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, September 3 2016

Saturday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Corinthians

4,6b-15.

]Brothers and sisters: Learn from myself and Apollos not to go beyond what is written, so that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over against another.
]Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?
]You are already satisfied; you have already grown rich; you have become kings without us! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we also might become kings with you.
]For as I see it, God has exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and human beings alike.
]We are fools on Christ's account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
]To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless
]and we toil, working with our own hands. When ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
]when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world's rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.
]I am writing you this not to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
]Even if you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Psalm

Psalms

145(144),17-18.19-20.21.

]The LORD is just in all his ways
and holy in all his works.
]The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth.
]He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.
]The LORD, keeps all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy.
]May my mouth speak the praise of the LORD,
and may all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

6,1-5.

]While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
]Some Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?"
]Jesus said to them in reply, "Have you not read what David did when he and those (who were) with him were hungry?
](How) he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions."
]Then he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."

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St. Gregory the Great(Pope and Doctor of the Church (c.540-604) - Memorial)

SAINT GREGORY THE GREATPope and Doctor of the Church(540-604) St. Gregory the Great was a Roman nobleman. He became the governor of Rome at a young age. When his father died, he gave his wealth to the poor, turned his house on the Cœlian Hill into a monastery and lived as a monk. By divine providence, St. Gregory saw Anglo-Saxon slaves at a market. At that moment, a longing to convert them was enkindled in his heart. He set out for Deira and began converting a nation that ended slavery in the 1800s. The pope appointed St. Gregory as one of the seven deacons of Rome. He served faithfully as Nuncio to the imperial court in Constantinople for many years. Although apart from Britain, he never forgot his inspiration to convert the Angles. After becoming pope, he sent St. Augustine and other monks to evangelize Britain. For 14 years, Pope Gregory carried the Church and Western Civilization on his shoulders. He healed schisms, revived discipline, saved Italy by converting the wild Arian Lombards, aided in the conversion of the Spanish and French Goths and kindled the light of Faith in Britain. He is honored as one of the four great doctors of the Church.

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