Wednesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Eph 6:1-9
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise, that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on earth. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up with the training and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ, not only when being watched, as currying favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, willingly serving the Lord and not men, knowing that each will be requited from the Lord for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. Masters, act in the same way towards them, and stop bullying, knowing that both they and you have a Master in heaven and that with him there is no partiality.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14 (R.13c)
R. The Lord is faithful in all his words.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might. R.
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion endures through all generations. R.
The LORD is faithful in all his words
and holy in all his works.
The LORD lifts up all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down. R.
Gospel – Lk 13:22-30
Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’ And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
Featured Saints
St. Marcellus of Leon, martyr (†298). Roman centurion decapitated in Tangier, Morocco, for declaring to his companions that he was a Christian.
Sts. Claudius, Lupercus and Victorius, martyrs of the Diocletian persecution of the fourth century. Sons of St. Marcellus of Leon.
Blessed Angelo of Acri, priest (†1739). Franciscan Capuchin who travelled throughout the Kingdom of Naples for almost 40 years, preaching the Word of God in a simple language.
Blessed Benvenuta Boiani, virgin (†1292). Daughter of the lord of Cividale del Friuli, Italy, she made a vow of virginity at the age of eleven. Still at a young age, she became a Dominican tertiary and consecrated her life to prayer and penance.
St. Eutropia, martyr (†c. third century). For her refusal to deny her faith in Christ, she was cruelly tortured until death in Alexandria, Egypt.
Blessed Terence Albert O’Brien, Bishop and martyr (+1651). Dominican prior who became Bishop of Limerick, Ireland. When his diocese was besieged during the regime of Oliver Cromwell, he was captured and hanged at Gallows Green.
Blessed Oleksa Zaryckyj, priest and martyr (†1963). Under the soviet regime, he was arrested out of religious persecution and deported to a concentration camp in Dolinka, Kazakhstan, and from there entered eternal life.
Blessed John Michael Langevin, priest and martyr (†1793). Killed out of ant-religious hatred during the French Revolution.
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