Tuesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Eph 2:12-22
BBrothers and sisters: You were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the Blood of Christ. For he is our peace, he made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity, through his Flesh, abolishing the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile both with God, in one Body, through the cross, putting that enmity to death by it. He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 85:9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14(R.see 68)
R. The Lord speaks of peace to his people.
I will hear what God proclaims;
the LORD–for he proclaims peace.
Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him,
glory dwelling in our land. R.
Kindness and truth shall meet;
justice and peace shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven.R.
The LORD himself will give his benefits;
our land shall yield its increase.
Justice shall walk before him,
and salvation, along the way of his steps. R.
Gospel – Lk 12:35-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.”
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 among the Gentiles.
St. Vitalis of Salzburg, bishop (†c. 730). Disciple of St. Rupert, travel companion and imitator of his works and vigils. He was also 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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