Thursday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Gal 3:1-5
O stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit from works of the law, or from faith in what you heard? Are you so stupid? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Did you experience so many things in vain?– if indeed it was in vain. Does, then, the one who supplies the Spirit to you and works mighty deeds among you do so from works of the law or from faith in what you heard?
Responsorial Psalm – Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 (R.68)
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David. R.
Through his holy prophets he promised of old
that he would save us from our enemies,
from the hands of all who hate us. R.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant. R.
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life R.
Gospel – Lk 11:5-13
Jesus said to his disciples: “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’ I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
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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