Monday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Rom 4:20-25
Brothers and sisters: Abraham did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what God had promised he was also able to do. That is why it was credited to him as righteousness. But it was not for him alone that it was written that it was credited to him; it was also for us, to whom it will be credited, who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over for our transgressions and was raised for our justification.
Responsorial Psalm – Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 (R.see 68)
R. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people.
He has come to his people and set them free.
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.
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 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”‘ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”
Featured Saints
St. Cornelius the Centurion. Roman pagan stationed as a Centurion in Caesarea of Palestine. The Acts of the Apostles recounts his vision of an Angel and his Baptism by St. St. Peter, along with his entire family, marking the beginning of St. Peter’s evangelization to the Gentiles.
St. Vitalis of Salzburg, bishop (†c. 730). Disciple of St. Rupert, travel companion and imitator of his works and vigils, as well as becoming his successor as Bishop and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria.
St. Andrew of Crete, martyr (†767). A monk from Crete who was incarcerated and killed in Istanbul by the fury of the Byzantine iconoclasts.
St. Adeline of Savigny, abbess (†c. 1125). First superior of the monastery of Mortain, France, which she founded with the help of her brother St. Vitalis.
St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin, virgin (†1922). Religious from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts, she dedicated herself to those ailing in body and soul, in a hospital in Treviso, Italy.
Blessed James Strepa, bishop (†1409). Prior of the Franciscan convent of Lviv, Ukraine, appointed Bishop of Halicz.
In USA: Optional memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest (†1775, Rome). Celebrated October 19 in the General Calendar.
In Canada: Optional Memorial of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin (†1690) and St. Hedwig, religious (†1243) Celebrated October 16 in the General Calendar.
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