Monday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – Phil 2:1-4
Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also everyone for those of others.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3 (R.*)
R. In You, O Lord, I have found my peace.
O LORD, my heart is not proud,
nor are my eyes haughty;
I busy not myself with great things,
nor with things too sublime for me. R.
Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted
my soul like a weaned child.
Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap,
so is my soul within me. R.
O Israel, hope in the LORD,
both now and forever. R.
Gospel – Lk 14:12-14
On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited Him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Featured Saints
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, religious (†1617). After losing his wife and son, he became a humble Jesuit brother and became renowned for his holiness while exercising the duty of porter for many years at the Jesuit college of Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
St. Antoninus, bishop (†c. 661). He worked untiringly to extinguish the Arian heresy among the Lombards.
Blessed Christopher of Romagnola, priest (†1272). Friar minor sent by St. Francis of Assisi to preach in Aquitaine. He died a centenarian in Cahors, France.
Blessed Leon Nowakowski, priest and martyr (†1939). Shot to death out of hatred of the Faith in Piotrków Kujawski during the military occupation of Poland.
Blessed Dominic Collins, religious and martyr (†1602). A former soldier who became a Jesuit coadjutor brother. He was imprisoned, tortured and hanged in Ireland, for refusing to renounce his Faith during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Blessed Thomas Bellacci of Florence, religious (†1447). Repenting of his dissolute life as a youth, he entered the Order of Friars Minor as a lay brother.
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