Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Cor 3:1-9
Brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now, for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh, and walking according to the manner of man? Whenever someone says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not merely men? What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor. For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21 (R.12)
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people He has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
he sees all mankind. R.
From his fixed throne he beholds
all who dwell on the earth,
He who fashioned the heart of each,
He who knows all their works. R.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield,
For in Him our hearts rejoice;
in his holy name we trust. R.
Gospel – Lk 4:38-44
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. And demons also came out from many, shouting, “You are the Son of God.” But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ. At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
Featured Saints
Sts. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. They took the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ down from the Cross and wrapped it with spices in linens and placed it in the sepulchre.
St. Aidan, Bishop (†651). Having been appointed Bishop of Lindisfarne (England), he founded a monastery there to efficaciously carry out the evangelization of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
St. Paulinus of Trier, bishop and martyr (†358). Bishop of Trier, in present-day Germany, he defended St. Athanasius against the Arians in the Synod of Arles, in 353 and was consequently exiled to Phrygia, Turkey, where he was martyred.
St. Aristides, apologist (†c.150). Athenian philosopher who converted to Christianity and renowned for his faith and wisdomhe addressed an Apology on the Christian Faith to Emperor Hadrian.
St. Raymond Nonnatus, religious (†circa 1240). One of the first companions of St. Peter Nolasco in the Order of the Mercedarians, who died on the way to Rome, where he was going to received the cardinal’s biretta.
Blessed Andrea Dotti, priest (†1315). Italian noble; he left the life of the court to join the Servite Order.
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