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
St. Bertin, abbot (circa 698). With two companions, he founded the Monastery of Sithiu in Saint-Omer (France), and served as its abbot for almost 60 years.
St. Peter Nguyen Van Tu, priest and martyr (†1838). Dominican religious who ministered clandestinely during the religious persecution in Vietnam. When discovered, he was arrested and put to death.
St. Herculianus, martyr, Second century.
Sts. Urban, Theodore, Medimnus and companions, martyrs (†370). By order of Emperor Valens they were put on a ship in Nicomedia, present-day Turkey, and burned alive at high sea.
Blessed Florence Dumontet de Cardaillac, priest and martyr (†1794). Vicar General of Chartres; he was imprisoned in a galley in Rochefort during the French Revolution. He died a victim of his charity and zeal in assisting sick prisoners.
Blessed William Browne, martyr (†1605). Layman put to death during the reign of James I of England, for having actively spread the Catholic Faith among his compatriots.
Blessed John the Good of Siponto, abbot (†Twelfth century). He built the monastery of St. Michael on the coast of Dalmatia, present-day Croatia. As its first abbot, he established a community there with a hermetic way of life modelled upon that of his spiritual master, Bl. John of Matera.
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