Wednesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

First Letter to the Corinthians

Brothers and sisters: In regard to virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
So this is what I think best because of the present distress: that it is a good thing for a person to remain as he is.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a separation. Are you free of a wife? Then do not look for a wife.
If you marry, however, you do not sin, nor does an unmarried woman sin if she marries; but such people will experience affliction in their earthly life, and I would like to spare you that.
I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them,
those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning,
those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

Psalms

Hear, O daughter, and see; turn your ear,
Forget your people and your father's house.
So shall the king desire your beauty;
for he is your lord. and you must worship him.
All glorious is the king's daughter as she enters;
Her raiment is threaded with spun gold.
In embroidered apparel she is borne in to the king;
behind her the virgins of her train are brought to you.
They are borne in with gladness and joy;
they enter the palace of the king.
The place of your fathers your sons shall have;
You shall make them princes through all the land.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Raising his eyes toward his disciples Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.
Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”

St. Cloud(Priest (522-c.560))

SAINT CLOUDPriest(522- c. 560) St. Cloud is the first and Saint among the princes of the royal family of France. He was the son of Chlodomir, King of Orleans, the eldest son of St. Clotilda, and was born in 522. He was scarce three years old when his father was killed in Burgundy; and his grandmother Clotilda raised him and his two brothers at Paris. Their ambitious uncles divided the kingdom of Orleans between them, stabbing two of their nephews in the process. Cloud, by a special providence, was saved from the massacre. Renouncing the world, he devoted himself to the service of God in a monastic state. After a time, he put himself under the discipline of St. Severinus, a holy recluse who lived near Paris, from whose hands he received the monastic habit. Wishing to live unknown to the world, Cloud withdrew secretly into Provence, but his hermitage being made public, he returned to Paris, and was received with great joy. At the earnest request of the people, he was ordained priest by Eusebius, Bishop of Paris in 551, and served that Church some time in the functions of the sacred ministry. He afterward retired to Saint-Cloud in western Paris, where he built a monastery. His leadership created a sanctuary for men fleeing temptation and afraid of losing their souls. St. Cloud was their superior, and he animated them to virtue both by word and example. He was indefatigable in instructing and exhorting the people of the neighboring country, and piously ended his days about the year 560.

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