Monday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Rom 11:29-36
Brothers and sisters: The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For God delivered all to disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His judgments and how unsearchable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been His counselor? Or who has given Him anything that He may be repaid? For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To God be glory forever. Amen.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 69:30-31, 33-34, 36 (R.14c)
R. Lord, in Your great love, answer me.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let Your saving help, O God, protect me.
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify Him with thanksgiving. R.
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and His own who are in bonds He spurns not.” R.
For God will save Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah.
They shall dwell in the land and own it,
and the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
and those who love His name shall inhabit it. R.
Gospel – Lk 14:12-14
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited Him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Featured Saints
St. Melaine, bishop (†after 511). Endowed with a great spirit of prayer, he built a church with his own hands in Rennes, France, and gathered several monks to the service of God.
St. Stephen of Apt, bishop (†1046). Outstanding for his meekness, he made two pilgrimages to Jerusalem and rebuilt the cathedral of his Diocese of Apt, in the southeast of France.
St. Severus (seventh century), martyr and Bishop of Barcelona, Spain.
St. Theobald, priest (†1070). Religious from the Canons Regular of St. Augustine who died in Dorat, França.As the church custodian, he left only to care for the sick.
St. Winnoc, abbot (†716). Believed to be of Welsh origin. Disciple of St. Bertin in the Monastery of Sithiu, near Saint-Omer, France. He founded and governed the Monastery of Wormhout in northern France.
St. Felix, martyr. Third century.
Sts. Callinicus, Imerius, Theodore, Stephen, Peter, Paul, other Theodore, John, other John and another, of unknown name, martyrs (†638). In Gaza, soldiers captured by the Saracens of this city, encouraged by the bishop St. Sophronius, confessed their faith in Christ and were beheaded.
St. Leonard of Noblac, hermit (†559). A frankish noble and coutier of Clovis, who became a convert and follower of St. Remigius. He took up his abode in a forest at Limoges (France), where he gathered a number of followers, later establishing an abbey at Noblac around which developed the village later called Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.
Blessed Christina of Stommeln, virgin (†1312). Born in Stommeln, close to Cologne (Germany). She entered the convent of the Beguines of Cologne at age 12, and at 15 was marked by the stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ. She endured terrible sufferings, including tremendous temptations, with admirable courage.
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