Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States and some other countries]
Mass Readings
First Reading – Is 7:1-9
In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it. When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and the heart of the people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind. Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field, and say to him: Take care you remain tranquil and do not fear; let not your courage fail before these two stumps of smoldering brands the blazing anger of Rezin and the Arameans, and of the son Remaliah, because of the mischief that Aram, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, plots against you, saying, “Let us go up and tear Judah asunder, make it our own by force, and appoint the son of Tabeel king there.” Thus says the LORD: This shall not stand, it shall not be! Damascus is the capital of Aram, and Rezin is the head of Damascus; Samaria is the capital of Ephraim, and Remaliah’s son the head of Samaria. But within sixty years and five, Ephraim shall be crushed, no longer a nation. Unless your faith is firm you shall not be firm!
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8(R. see 9d)
R. God upholds his city for ever.
Great is the LORD and wholly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, fairest of heights,
is the joy of all the earth. R.
Mount Zion, “the recesses of the North,”
is the city of the great King.
God is with her castles;
renowned is he as a stronghold.R.
For lo! the kings assemble,
they come on together;
They also see, and at once are stunned,
terrified, routed. R.
Quaking seizes them there;
anguish, like a woman’s in labor,
As though a wind from the east
were shattering ships of Tarshish. R.
Gospel – Mt 11:20-24
Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum: Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the nether world. For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Featured Saints
St. Francis Solano, priest (†1610). Spanish Franciscan missionary who traveled across America froo Argentina, converting indigenous people and colonizers.m Peru t
St. Camillus de Lellis, priest (†1614 Rome). (Commemorated July 18 in USA). Of distinguished birth, he followed a military career, and led a dissolute life. After his conversion, he founded the Order of Clerics Regular, Servants of the Sick (now known as the Camillians). Patron of hospitals.
St. Marchelm, priest and monk (†circa 775). Of Anglo-Saxon origin, he was a disciple and companion of St. Willibrord from his youth. He died on mission at Deventer, Holland.
St. Toscana, widow (†1343/1344). After the death of her spouse, she gave her goods to the poor and served the sick in the hospital of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in Verona, Italy.
Blessed Michael Ghebre, priest and martyr (†1855). Formerly a Monophysist monk of Ethiopia; he converted to Catholicism and entered the Congregation of the Mission. In the persecution of the ruler Theodore II, (of Ethiopia) he suffered thirteen months of torments, and in view of his refusal to renounce his Faith, he was finally left to die of hunger and thirst.
Blessed Caspar de Bono, priest (†1604). He left a military career to give himself to God in the Order of Minims; he died as Provincial in Valencia, Spain.
Blessed Angelina di Marsciano, religious (†1435). Lived the fifty years of her widowhood exclusively at the service of God. She founded the cloistered Third Order Franciscans, for the formation of girls.
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