Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11
Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him. Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14 (R.13)
R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid? R.
One thing I ask of the LORD;
this I seek:
To dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD
and contemplate his temple.R.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD. R.
Gospel – Lk 4:31-37
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are–the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.
Featured Saints
In Canada: Optional memorial of Blessed André Grasset, priest and martyr (†1792). Montreal-born in 1758 to French parents, his family returned to France when he was a child, and there he completed his studies and was ordained a priest in Sens in 1783. He became a martyr of the French Revolution, brutally killed during the massacre of September 2, 1792, along with 92 other clerics, having repeatedly refused to save his life by signing the state-imposed Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
Blessed Jean-Marie du Lau d’Allemans,François-Joseph de la Rochefoucauld and Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld, bishops, and 93 other clerics and religious, martyrs (†1792). For refusing to take the impious oath imposed on the Clergy by the French Revolution, they were savagely killed while held captive in the Carmelite Convent in Paris.
Blessed Alexander Charles Lenfant, priest and martyr (†1792). Jesuit preacher and great devotee of the Sacred Heart, appointed preacher of King Louis XVI; killed during the French Revolution for refusing to take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
St. Antoninus of Apamea, martyr (†fourth century). Put to death by stoning in Syria.
St. Justus, bishop (†d. 381). He Renounced the Episcopal See of Lyon after the Council of Aquileia to take up the humble life of a monk in a hermitage in Egypt.
St. Syagrius, bishop (†600). ). In the Diocese of Autun, France, he fought simony, demanded strict adherence to ecclesiastical discipline and promoted theological studies.
St. Agricola, bishop (†700). After sixteen years of monastic life, he was made Bishop of Avignon. He showed great zeal in preaching and dedication in the support of the poor and sick.
Blessed Ingrid of Sweden (†1282). From a noble Swedish family. After becoming a widow, she gave up all her goods for the service of God. Making a journey to the Holy Land, she took the Dominican Habit, and went on to found the first convent of the Order in Skänninge (Sweden).
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