Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Cor 6:1-11
Brothers and sisters: How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones? Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unqualified for the lowest law courts? Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not everyday matters? If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat as judges people of no standing in the Church? I say this to shame you. Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be able to settle a case between brothers? But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers? Now indeed then it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated? Instead, you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers. Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the Kingdom of God. That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b (R. see 4)
R. The Lord takes delight in his people.
of praise in the assembly of the faithful.
Let Israel be glad in their Maker,
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. R.
let them sing praise to Him with timbrel and harp.
For the LORD loves his people,
and He adorns the lowly with victory. R.
let them sing for joy upon their couches;
Let the high praises of God be in their throats.
This is the glory of all His faithful. Alleluia. R.
Gospel – Lk 6:12-19
Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, He called his disciples to Himself, and from them He chose Twelve, whom He also named Apostles: Simon, whom He named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And He came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of His disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch Him because power came forth from Him and healed them all.
Featured Saints
St. Zechariah, Prophet. Foretold the end of the Babylonian exile and made many announcements regarding the Messiah, including the entrance into Jerusalem commemorated on Palm Sunday: “Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion, […] Behold: your king is coming to you, a just saviour is he, humble and riding on a donkey” (cf. Zec 9:9).
Sts. Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, Fusculus and Laetus, bishops (†Fifth century). Cruelly scourged and exiled from Africa by Hunneric, the Arian king of the Vandals, for their proclamation of true doctrine. Laetus was burned alive after a long imprisonment.
St. Cagnoald, bishop (†circa 632). Disciple of St. Columban, he was his sole assistant in the Hermitage of Bregenz, beside Lake Constance. He died in Laon, France, as bishop of that diocese.
St. Onesiphorus (†First century). Disciple of St. Paul, who collaborated closely with him in Ephesus and during his imprisonment in Rome.
St. Eleutherius, Italian abbot, Sixth century.
St. Bega, virgin (†660). An Irish princess who renounced marriage with a Norwegian prince to embrace the monastic life. She founded the Priory of St Bees, in England, and served as its abbess until her death.
Blessed Michael Czartoryski, martyr († 1944). Priest of the Dominican Order, killed in Warsaw (Poland) during the Communist invasion.
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