Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, September 3 2018

Monday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

First Letter to the Corinthians

2,1-5.

]When I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
]For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
]I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
]and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
]so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Psalm

Psalms

119(118),97.98.99.100.101.102.

]How I love your law, O LORD!
It is my meditation all the day.
]Your command has made me wiser than my enemies,
For it is ever with me.
]I have more understanding than all my teachers
When your decrees are my meditation.
]I have more discernment than the elders,
Because I observe your precepts.
]From every evil way I withhold my feet,
that I may keep your words.
]From your ordinances I turn not away,
for you have instructed me.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

4,16-30.

]Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read
]and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
]"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
]and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
]Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
]He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
]And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
]He said to them, "Surely you will quote me this proverb, 'Physician, cure yourself,' and say, 'Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.'"
]And he said, "Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
]Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
]It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
]Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."
]When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
]They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
]But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

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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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