Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
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Mass Readings
First Reading – 1 Cor 4:6b-15
Brothers and sisters: Learn from myself and Apollos not to go beyond what is written, so that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over against another. Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it? You are already satisfied; you have already grown rich; you have become kings without us! Indeed, I wish that you had become kings, so that we also might become kings with you. For as I see it, God has exhibited us Apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and men alike. We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless and we toil, working with our own hands. When ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment. I am writing you this not to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. Even if you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21 (R.18)
R. The Lord is near to all who call upon him.
The LORD is just in all his ways
and holy in all his works.
The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth. R
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him,
he hears their cry and saves them.
The LORD keeps all who love him,
but all the wicked he will destroy. R
May my mouth speak the praise of the LORD,
and may all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. R.
Gospel – Lk 6:1-5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
Featured Saints
St. Regina, virgin and martyr (†third century). In Autun, France under the proconsul Olybrius, Regina was denounced for her conversion to the Christian Faith, which she refused to renounce under torture, and was finally put to death.
St. Stephen of Châtillon, bishop (†1208). Carthusian monk, consecrated Bishop of Die (France). He virtuously governed the diocese without neglecting the austerity of monastic life.
St. Clodoald, priest (†560). Of royal lineage, he was raised by his grandmother St. Clotilde after the death of his father and siblings. He renounced his royal dignity to embraced the priesthood; he died in Saint-Cloud, France.
Sts. Mark Krizevcanin, Stephen Pongrácz and Melchior Grodziecki, priests and martyrs (†1619). St. Mark was a diocesan priest while the others were Jesuits; they were tortured and killed in Kosice, Slovakia, for refusing to adhere to the Protestant Reformation.
Blesseds Ralph Corby and John Duckett, priests and martyrs (†1644). During the Reign of Charles I, in England, they were condemned to death at Tyburn for the “crime” of Catholic priesthood. Fr. Ralph was arrested while celebrating Mass, and John while on his way to baptize some children.
Blessed Ignatius Klopotowski, priest (†1931). Priest of the Diocese of Lublin, Poland, and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto.
Blessed Eugenia Picco, virgin (†1921). Religious from the Congregation of the Little Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who served as a teacher, mistress of novices, and finally as superior general. She died of bone tuberculosis in Parma, Italy.
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