Monday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13
The elders of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes, the princes in the ancestral houses of the children of Israel, came to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from the City of David, which is Zion. All the people of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month of Ethanim (the seventh month). When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark; they carried the ark of the LORD and the meeting tent with all the sacred vessels that were in the tent. (The priests and Levites carried them.) King Solomon and the entire community of Israel present for the occasion sacrificed before the ark sheep and oxen too many to number or count. The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place beneath the wings of the cherubim in the sanctuary, the holy of holies of the temple. The cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the ark, sheltering the ark and its poles from above. There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel at their departure from the land of Egypt. When the priests left the holy place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD so that the priests could no longer minister because of the cloud, since the LORD’s glory had filled the temple of the LORD. Then Solomon said, “The LORD intends to dwell in the dark cloud; I have truly built you a princely house, a dwelling where you may abide forever.”
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 132:6-7, 8-10 (R.8a)
R. (8a) Lord, go up to the place of your rest!
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of Jaar.
Let us enter into his dwelling,
let us worship at his footstool. tR.
Advance, O LORD, to your resting place,
you and the ark of your majesty.
May your priests be clothed with justi
let your faithful ones shout merrily for joy.
For the sake of David your servant,
reject not the plea of your anointed. tR.
Gospel – Mk 6:53-56
After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.
Featured Saints
St. Apollonia, virgin and martyr (†250). After undergoing torture, she was burned alive in Alexandria, Egypt, for refusing to utter blasphemies.
St. Sabine, bishop (†c. 566). Friend of St. Benedict, he was sent as pontifical legate to Constantinople to defend true doctrine in the wake of the monophyst heresy.
St. Maron, hermit (†c. 423). He lived as a hermit, consecrated to prayer and rigorous penances, on a hilltop near present-day Aleppo, Syria. A famous monastery was built at his graveside, and later a Christian community bearing his name developed at the site.
Sts. Primus and Donatus, deacons and martyrs (†c. 361). Stoned to death by a band of Donatist heretics in Lemellefa, in present-day Algeria, while defending an altar that the heretics were attacking.
St. Miguel Febres Cordero, religious (†1910). Member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, born in Cuenca, Ecuador. He was dedicated to the formation of youth and teachers for almost forty years.
Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire, religious (†1956). Capuchin lay brother, who fulfilled the duties of gardener, doorman, sacristan and almoner. He died in Granada, Spain.
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, virgin (†1824). Augustinian religious who received the stigmata of the Passion of Our Lord. She used her extraordinary mystical gifts to console all who came to her. She died in Dülmen, Germany at age 49.
St. Raynald, bishop (†1222). Camaldolese monk from the bay of Fonte Avellana; he exercised the episcopal ministry in Nocera, Italy, conserving the habits of monastic life.
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