Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, September 30 2017

Saturday of the Twenty-fifth week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Twenty-fifth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Zechariah

2,5-9.14-15a.

]I, Zechariah, raised my eyes and looked: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
]"Where are you going?" I asked. "To measure Jerusalem," he answered; "to see how great is its width and how great its length."
]Then the angel who spoke with me advanced, and another angel came out to meet him,
]and said to him, "Run, tell this to that young man: People will live in Jerusalem as though in open country, because of the multitude of men and beasts in her midst.
]But I will be for her an encircling wall of fire, says the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst."
]Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD.
]Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they shall be his people, and he will dwell among you.

Psalm

Book of Jeremiah

31,10.11-12ab.13.

]Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
Proclaim it on distant isles, and say:
He who scattered Israel, now gathers them together,
He guards them as a shepherd his flock.
]The LORD shall ransom Jacob,
he shall redeem him from the hand of his conqueror.
]Shouting, they shall mount the heights of Zion, 
]they shall come streaming to the LORD’s blessings:
]Then the virgins shall make merry and dance,
and young men and old as well.
I will turn their mourning into joy,
I will console and gladden them after their sorrows.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,43b-45.

]While they were all amazed at his every deed, he said to his disciples,
]"Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men."
]But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

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St. Jerome(Priest and Doctor of the Church (c. 340- c. 420) - Memorial)

SAINT JEROME Priest and Doctor of the Church(c. 340-c.420) St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia circa 347. He attended school in Rome, but had excessive love for knowledge and passion for books. He studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities and devoted himself to the pursuit of science. Little did he know that Jesus had need of his strong will and penetrating intellect. When St. Jerome encountered Jesus Christ, he made a vow of celibacy, departed Rome and lived in the wild Syrian desert. There, for four years, he learned penance, prayer and divine wisdom. He disproved the claim of heretics that the Blessed Virgin Mary had other children; and his proof of her perpetual virginity helped secure the unity of Christian faith. The third-century Marian prayer Sub Tuum Praesidium shows the veneration Christians have for the Mother of God; as only she whose flesh is sinless could give birth to Jesus who is sinless. When the pope besought St. Jerome to revise the Latin Bible, the latter used his fluency in Hebrew to great effect. The Latin Revision was St. Jerome's magnum opus and a blessing from the Holy Spirit. Retiring afterward to his beloved Bethlehem, he illuminated our Christian faith for another thirty years.

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