Sunday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
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Mass Readings
First Reading – Ex 22:20-26
Thus says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans. “If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.”
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 (R.2)
R. I love You, Lord, my strength.
I love You, O LORD, my strength,
O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. R.
My God, my rock of refuge,
my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!
Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies. R.
The LORD lives and blessed be my rock!
Extolled be God my savior.
You who gave great victories to Your king
and showed kindness to Your anointed. R.
Second Reading – 1 Thes 1:5c-10
Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.
Gospel – Mt 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested Him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Featured Saints
St. Narcissus, bishop (†circa 222). He was elected Bishop of Jerusalem at 100 years of age, and held that office as a model of patience and faith until his death at 116.
St. Zenobius, priest and martyr († fourth century). Also a physician, he was killed for his faith in Sidon, Lebanon, while exhorting his companions to give their lives for Christ.
St. Honoratus of Vercelli, bishop (†415). Disciple of St. Eusebius, he accompanied him in exile. He was ordained bishop by St. Ambrose, whom he assisted at the hour of his death.
St. Theodarius, abbot (†cerca de 575). Monk from the region of Vienne, France, he was appointed “intercessor before God” by his bishop, and major penitentiary for the entire diocese.
St. Abraham, anchorite (†366). Born into a wealthy family of Edessa, Syria, he became a hermit in small cell. The bishop ordained him a priest and sent him to evangelize the region, but he soon returned to live as a hermit.
Blessed Cajetan Errico, priest (†1860). Endowed with the supernatural gifts of bilocation, ecstasies and reading of souls, he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Naples, Italy.
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