Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Jon 3:1-10
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,” when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes. Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: “Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water. Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; every man shall turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in hand. Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold His blazing wrath, so that we shall not perish.” When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, He repented of the evil that He had threatened to do to them; He did not carry it out.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8 (R.3)
R. If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?
Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD
LORD, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive
to my voice in supplication. R.
If You, O LORD, mark iniquities,
LORD, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness,
that You may be revered. R.
Let Israel wait for the LORD,
For with the LORD is kindness
and with Him is plenteous redemption;
And He will redeem Israel
from all their iniquities. R.
Gospel – Lk 10:38-42
Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed Him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at His feet listening to Him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to Him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.”
Featured Saints
St. Paulinus of York, bishop (†644). One of the monks sent from Rome by Pope St. Gregory the Great to Evangelize the Anglo-Saxons, becoming the Bishop of Kent. He later baptized King Edwin of Northumbria in 627, along with his entire court, including the future St. Hilda of Whitby.
St. Clarus, bishop (fourth centurty). First bishop of Nantes, France.
St. Daniel Comboni, bishop (†1881). Son of poor farmers, he became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa and one of the greatest missionaries in the history of the Church. He founded the Comboni Missionary Institute.
St. Cerbonius, Bishop of Populonia (Italy), sixth century.
Blessed Leon Wetmanski, bishop and martyr (†1941). Auxiliary Bishop of Płock, Poland, he was imprisoned, tortured and martyred in the Działdowo concentration camp.
Blessed Edward Detkens, martyr (†1942). Polish priest who died in the gas chamber in Linz, Austria.
Blessed Angela Maria Truszkowska, virgin (†1899). Born in Kalisz, Poland, she founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice.
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