Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
This commemoration derives from the feast of Our Lady of Victory, instituted by Pope St. Pius V following the victory of the Christian fleet against the Ottoman Turks in the naval Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571.
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Mass Readings
First Reading – Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14
Brothers and sisters:
After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also. I went up in accord with a revelation, and I presented to them the Gospel that I preach to the Gentiles– but privately to those of repute– so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter to the circumcised, for the one who worked in Peter for an apostolate to the circumcised worked also in me for the Gentiles, and when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. Only, we were to be mindful of the poor, which is the very thing I was eager to do. And when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong. For, until some people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and separated himself, because he was afraid of the circumcised. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not on the right road in line with the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all, “If you, though a Jew, are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 117:1bc, 2
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
Praise the LORD, all you nations,
glorify him, all you peoples! R.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever. R.
Gospel – Lk 11:1-4
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.”
Featured Saints
St. Mark of Jerusalem, bishop (†second century). First bishop of Gentile origin to occupy the See in Jerusalem.
St. Palladius, bishop (†c.596). Bishop of Saintes, France; he erected a basilica over the tomb of St. Eutropius and encouraged devotion to the saints in his diocese of Saintes, France.
St. Augustus, priest and abbot (†c.560). He suffered from swelling in the hands and feet, but was cured through the intercession of St. Martin. He erected a community of monks dedicated to continual prayer, in Bourges, France.
St. Justina, virgin and martyr (†third/fourth century). Executed in Padua, Italy during the Diocletian persecution.
Blessed Jean Hunot, priest and martyr (†1794). He died in imprisonment, for being a priest, in the hold of a galley in Rochefort, France.
Blessed Martin Cid, abbot (†1152). He abandoned the city to live in a grotto. When many followers gathered around him, he founded the monastery of Bellafuente in Valparaiso, Spain, and united it to the Cistercian Order.
Blessed José Llosá Balaguer martyr (†1936). Religious of the Tertiary Capuchins of Our Lady of Sorrows killed near Valencia during the Spanish Civil War.
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