Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, September 30 2019

Monday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Zechariah

8,1-8.

]This word of the LORD of hosts came: Thus says the LORD of hosts:
]I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her.
]Thus says the LORD: I will return to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.
]Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women, each with staff in hand because of old age, shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem.
]The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her streets.
]Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even if this should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people, shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also, says the LORD of hosts?
]Thus says the LORD of hosts: Lo, I will rescue my people from the land of the rising sun, and from the land of the setting sun.
]I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem. They shall be my people, and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice.

Psalm

Psalms

102(101),16-18.19-21.29.22-23.

]The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
]when the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
]when he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
]Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
]"The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
]to hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die."
]The children of your servants shall abide,
and their posterity shall continue in your presence,
]that the name of the LORD may be declared on Zion;
and his praise, in Jerusalem,
]when the peoples gather together
and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

9,46-50.

]An argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
]Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child and placed it by his side
]and said to them, "Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest."
]Then John said in reply, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow in our company."
]Jesus said to him, "Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you."

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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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