Tuesday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Colossians

Brothers and sisters: as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ.
For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily,
and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power.
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ.
You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
And even when you were dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions;
obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it.

Psalms

I will extol you, O my God and King,
and I will bless your name forever and ever.
Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
The LORD is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles:
Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot,
and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.

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. Alphonsus became his spiritual guide, foretold the labors he would undergo in the Indies and the throne he would gain in heaven. After being ordained in New Granada, Peter was sent to Cartagena, the great slave market of the West Indies. 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. He immediately revived whenever a slave ship docked and 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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