Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, September 9 2018

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Isaiah

35,4-7a.

]Thus says the Lord: "Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; With divine recompense he comes to save you.
]Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared;
]Then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the dumb will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe.
]The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water.

Psalm

Psalms

146(145),7.8-9a.9bc-10.

]The LORD keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
the LORD sets captives free.
]The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
]The LORD protects strangers.
]The fatherless and the widow the LORD sustains,
]but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
]The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.

2. Reading

Letter of James

2,1-5.

]My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
]For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in,
]and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Sit here, please," while you say to the poor one, "Stand there," or "Sit at my feet,"
]have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs?
]Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

7,31-37.

]Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.
]And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him.
]He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man's ears and, spitting, touched his tongue;
]then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened!")
]And (immediately) the man's ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.
]He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it.
]They were exceedingly astonished and they said, "He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak."

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St. Peter Claver(Priest (1580-1654) - Memorial)

SAINT PETER CLAVERPriest(1580-1654) St. Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit. In Majorca, he befriended the holy lay-brother Alphonsus Rodriguez. The latter became St. Peter's spiritual guide, foretold his labors in the Indies and the prize he would gain in Heaven. After being ordained in New Granada, St. Peter was sent to Cartagena, a slave market in the West Indies. For more than forty years, he ministered to slaves and called himself "the slave of the slaves." He was their apostle, physician and friend. He fed them, nursed them and tended to their sores. His cloak, though stained, emitted a miraculous perfume. He immediately revived whenever a slave ship docked and comforted the victims in body and soul. A false charge of reiterating baptism stopped St. Peter's work for a while. He submitted without a murmur until the calumny was refuted. God so blessed his ministry that 40,000 souls were baptized before he passed away in 1654.

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