Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, September 4 2016

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Wisdom

9,13-18.

]Who can know God's counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?
]For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans.
]For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.
]And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty; but when things are in heaven, who can search them out?
]Or who ever knew your counsel, except you had given Wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high?
]And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight.

Psalm

Psalms

90(89),3-4.5-6.12-13.14.17.

]You turn man back to dust,
saying, "Return, O children of men."
]For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
]You make an end of them in their sleep;
the next morning they are like the changing grass,
]Which at dawn springs up anew,
but by evening wilts and fades.
]Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
]Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
]Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
]And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours;
Prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!

2. Reading

Letter to Philemon

1,9-10.12-17.

]I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,
]I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
]I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.
]I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel,
]but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.
]Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,
]no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord.
]So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

14,25-33.

]Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them,
]"If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
]Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
]Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?
]Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him
]and say, 'This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.'
]Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?
]But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.
]In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple."

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St. Rosalia(Layperson († 1160))

ST. ROSALIA Virgin( 1160) St. Rosalia was a descendant of Charlemagne. She was born in Palermo, southern Italy, formerly the Kingdom of Sicily. In her youth, she renounced worldly vanities, lived in a cave on Mount Pelegrino and gave her life to God. In the year of the jubilee, 1625, Rosalia's body was found buried in a grotto under the mountain. It was moved to the Metropolitan Church of Palermo by Pope Urban III. When a plague ravaged Palermo, the pestilence dissipated through St. Rosalia's intercession. In visions, people saw her interceding. She is Palermo's patroness.

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