Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Cor 3:1-9
Brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now, for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh, and walking according to the manner of man? Whenever someone says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not merely men? What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor. For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building
Responsorial Psalm – PS 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21 (R.12)
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
he sees all mankind. R.
From his fixed throne he beholds
all who dwell on the earth,
He who fashioned the heart of each,
he who knows all their works. R.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield,
For in him our hearts rejoice;
in his holy name we trust. R.
Gospel – Lk 4:38-44
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. And demons also came out from many, shouting, “You are the Son of God.” But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ. At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
Featured Saints
St. Moses, prophet. Chosen by God to liberate the people of Israel from captivity in Egypt and received the tables of the Law, containing the 10 Commandments. He led them to the Promised Land, but died before entering it, leaving his disciple Joshua as the leader of Israel.
Blessed Marie Ste-Cécile de Rome (Dina Bélanger), virgin (†1929). Optional Memorial in Canada. Member of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Quebec, Canada, favoured with mystical communications with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For years she patiently endured the illness from which she died at age 32. See also: Home of Joy and Happiness.
St. Boniface I, Pope (†422). He worked to resolve many controversies involving ecclesiastical discipline.
St. Rosalia, virgin (†twelfth century). She left everything to live as a hermitess near Palermo, Italy, of which she is the patroness.
St. Irmingard, virgin (†1085). Countess of Süchteln, Germany, she adopted a hermetical life and used her inheritance in the construction of many churches.
St. Ida of Saxony, widow (†825). Married to Count Ekbert of Herzfeld, she dedicated herself to caring for the poor and building churches and monasteries.
St. Cuthbert, bishop (†687). After the Synod of Whitby, he became prior of Lindisfarne, and won over the community to Roman customs. His incorrupt remains were enshrined at Durham, which with Lindisfarne has remained a centre of his cult to this day.
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