Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Phil 2:5-11
Brothers and sisters: Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and, found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Responsorial Psalm – I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. (R.26a)
R. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.
I will fulfill my vows before those who fear him.
The lowly shall eat their fill;
they who seek the LORD shall praise him:
“May your hearts be ever merry!” R.
All the ends of the earth
shall remember and turn to the LORD;
All the families of the nations
shall bow down before him. R.
For dominion is the LORD’s,
and he rules the nations.
To him alone shall bow down
all who sleep in the earth. R.
To him my soul shall live;
my descendants shall serve him.
Let the coming generation be told of the LORD
that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born
the justice he has shown. R.
Gospel – Lk 14:15-24
One of those at table with Jesus said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God.” He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.’ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.’ The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’”
Featured Saints
St. Guido Maria Conforti, bishop (†1931). Founded the Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier (Xaverian Missionaries) in Parma, Italy.
St. Gerald, bishop (†1123). A man of admirable simplicity; he was outstanding for his humility as canon regular of St. Augustine, and even more so as Bishop of Béziers, France.
St. Dominic Mâu, priest and martyr (†1858). Dominican beheaded by order of the Emperor Tu Ðúc in Vietnam, being accused of publicly wearing the Rosary and exhorting Christians to witness to the Faith.
Sts. Timothy, Philotheus and Theotimus, martyrs (†307). Syrian youths who, for their Christian Faither, were delivered up to wild beasts in the circus games, in Caesarea Palestinae.
St. Domninus, martyr (†307). Young physician, he was condemned to forced labour in the mines of Mismiya in Caesarea of Palestine during the Diocletian persecution, and later burned alive for refusing to renounce his Faith.
St. Bertille, abbess (†c. 705). First superior of the monastery of Chelles, France, founded by Queen St. Balthild.
Blessed Gregory Lakota, bishop and martyr (†1950). Bishop of Ukrainian origin, he was imprisoned for his Faith, enduring terrible corporeal torments until his death in the concentration camp of Abez, Siberia.
Blessed Gomidas Keumurjian, priest and martyr (†1707). Ordained in the Armenian Church, he firmly upheld the faith professed in the Council of Chalcedon. He endured much persecution and was beheaded while praying the Creed.
Blessed Bernard Lichtenberg, priest and martyr (†1943). Provost of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin; for denouncing Nazi errors he was imprisoned for two years and died on the way to Dachau concentration camp.
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