Saturday of the Twenty-second week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Colossians

1,21-23.

Brothers and sisters: you once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;
he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through his death, to present you holy, without blemish, and irreproachable before him,
provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister.

Psalms

54(53),3-4.6.8.

O God, by your name save me,
And by your might defend my cause.
O God, hear my prayer;
Hearken to the words of my mouth.
Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord sustains my life.
Freely will I offer you sacrifice;
I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

6,1-5.

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
Some Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?"
Jesus said to them in reply, "Have you not read what David did when he and those (who were) with him were hungry?
(How) he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions."
Then he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."

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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 his spiritual guide, foretold the labors he would undergo in the Indies and the throne he would gain in heaven. Ordained a priest in New Granada, Peter was sent to Cartagena, the great slave market of the West Indies, to proclaim the Gospel. For more than forty years, he labored in this work, calling himself "the slave of the slaves." He was their apostle, father, physician and friend. He fed them, nursed them, and tended to their sores. His cloak, though stained, emitted a miraculous perfume. His rest was in nights of penance and prayer. However tired he was, he immediately revived once a slave ship docked; and he was at once on-board bringing comfort of body and soul. A false charge of reiterating baptism stopped his work for a while. He submitted without a murmur until the calumny was refuted. God so blessed St. Peter's ministry that 40,000 were baptized before he passed away in 1654.

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