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  August, 2007

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Sunday, July 1, 2007
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
1 Kings 19:16, 19-21
Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11
Galatians 5:1, 13-18
Luke 9:51-62

Ah! Many of us are more afraid of poverty than of humility or modesty or any other virtue. We must therefore take to poverty resolutely if we want to resemble our Lord. Let each one of us, according to his condition, aim at having fewer and less expensive things. Let everything that we buy or receive be a tribute to the holy poverty of our Master Jesus Christ. We shall want to depend on Him for everything: on His light for our mind, on His grace for our will, on His love for our heart, on His Cross for our body. Do not seek any other. He is always here in The Blessed Sacrament.

-- St. Peter Emyard

Monday, July 2, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 18:16-33
Psalm 103:1-4, 8-11
Matthew 8:18-22

The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, no one is thinking of Him! See nature praises Him, and man....who ought to praise Him, sleeps! Let us go and wake up the universe.... and sing praises!

-- St. Mariam Baouardy

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
St. Thomas, Apostle (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Ephesians 2:19-22
Psalm 117:1-2
John 20:24-29

One whose soul is in disorder, whose mind is wandering with vain, useless thoughts, cannot pray. To pray, we must unite the flesh and its feelings to the soul with its imagination, memory and will.

-- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Independence Day
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Isaiah 58:6-11
Psalm 107:2-9
Matthew 25:31-46

God is so good and merciful, that to obtain Heaven it is sufficient to ask it of Him from our hearts.

-- St. Benedict Joseph Labre

Thursday, July 5, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 22:1-19
Psalm 115:1-6, 8-9
Matthew 9:1-8

How often I have failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer!

-- St. Theresa of Avila

Friday, July 6, 2007
St. Maria Goretti, Virgin, Martyr (Optional Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67
Psalm 106:1-5
Matthew 9:9-13

You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.

-- St. Vincent de Paul

Saturday, July 7, 2007
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29
Psalm 135:1-6
Matthew 9:14-17

What could be more out of keeping with our holy religion then impure language? It outrages God. It scandalizes our neighbor. Can a Christian really afford to occupy his mind with such horrible images?

-- St. John Vianney

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Isaiah 66:10-14
Psalm 66:1-7, 16, 20
Galatians 6:14-18
Luke 10:1-12, 17-20

Someone says: " It is nothing to me how long I stay in purgatory, so long as I go on finally to erternal life." Let no one say that, beloved brethren, because that purgatorial fire itself will be more difficult than any punishments that can be seen or imagined or felt in this life.

-- St. Caesarius of Arles

Monday, July 9, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 28:10-22
Psalm 91:1-4, 14-15
Matthew 9:18-26

God is seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided that they keep the eyes of their mind open. All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun. Because the blind cannot see it, it does not follow that the sun does not shine. The blind must trace the cause back to themselves and their eyes. In the same way, you have eyes in your mind that are shrouded in darkness because of your sins and evil deeds. No one who has sin within him can see God. If you understand this, and live in purity and holiness and justice, you may see God.

-- Saint Theophilus of Antioch

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
St. Veronica Giuliani, Virgin (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Corinthians 4:6-11, 16, 17
Psalm 59:2, 10, 17-18
Matthew 16:24-27

In the same way a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

-- St. Amma Syncletice

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
St. Benedict, Abbot (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24
Psalm 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19
Matthew 10:1-7

There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.

-- St. John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa. 2, 4

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5
Psalm 105:16-21
Matthew 10:7-15

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

-- St. Alphonsus Liguori

Friday, July 13, 2007
Votive Mass of the Precious Blood
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30
Psalm 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40
Matthew 10:16-23

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.

-- St. Jerome

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26
Psalm 105:1-4, 6-7
Matthew 10:24-33

Our self will is so subtle and so deeply rooted within us, so covered with excuses and defended by false reasoning, that it seems to be a demon. When we cannot do our own will in one way, we do it in another, under all kinds of pretexts.

-- St. Catherine of Genoa

Sunday, July 15, 2007
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Deuteronomy 30:10-14
Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37 or Psalm 19:8-11
Colossians 1:15-20
Luke 10:25-37

No one really wants to sin against God, even though we do all sin without being forced to do so.

-- St. John Climacus

Monday, July 16, 2007
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Optional Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 1:8-14, 22
Psalm 124:1-8
Matthew 10:34 -- 11:1

What Revelation makes known to us is confirmed by our own experience. For when man looks into his own heart he finds that he is drawn towards what is wrong and sunk in many evils which cannot come from his good Creator. Often refusing to acknowledge God as his source, man has also upset the relationship which should link him to his last end, and at the same time he has broken the right order that should reign within himself as well as between himself and other men and all creatures.

-- Gaudium et spes

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 2:1-15
Psalm 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34
Matthew 11:20-24

How can a man say he believes in Christ if he doesn't do what Christ commanded him to do?

-- St. Cyprian of Carthage

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12
Psalm 103:1-4, 6-7
Matthew 11:25-27

The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.

-- Lateran Council IV

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 3:13-20
Psalm 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-27
Matthew 11:28-30

The very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginng, which the Lord gave, was preached by the apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded, and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.

-- St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Friday, July 20, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 11:10 -- 12:14
Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18
Matthew 12:1-8

What has a person to fear who lives in the arms and bosom of God?

-- St. Paul of the Cross

Saturday, July 21, 2007
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor of the Church (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Wisdom 8:9-16  or 2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Psalm 67:2-5, 7-8
Luke 9:1-6

As God recognized each of us before we were born, and called us by name, so too may we recognize the value of each human life and pledge ourselves to continue to defend and nurture God's greatest gift to us.

-- NCCB 1992 Respect Life Manual

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Genesis 18:1-10
Psalm 15:2-5
Colossians 1:24-28
Luke 10:38-42

Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.

-- Pope St. Pius X

Monday, July 23, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 14:5-18
Exodus 15:1-6
Matthew 12:38-42

It is important that you choose your career with care, so that you may really follow the vocation that God has destined for you. No day should pass without some prayer to this end. Often repeat with St. Paul: "Lord, what will you have me do?"

-- St. John Bosco

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 14:21 -- 15:1
Exodus 15:8-10, 12, 17
Matthew 12:46-50

Zeal without knowledge is always less useful and effective than informed zeal, and is very often dangerous!

-- St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
St. James, Apostle (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Corinthians 4:7-15
Psalm 126:1-6
Matthew 20:20-28

Religious pictures of themselves will not make a family good. Only when they are contemplated upon, are they a practical way to help true Christian sentiment, and to a true Christian way of living in the family.

-- St. John Vianney

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Sirach 44:1, 10-15
Psalm 132:11, 13-14, 17-18
Matthew 13:16-17

Right reason, that is, reason rightly exercised, leads the mind to the Catholic faith, and plants it there, and teaches it in all its religious speculations to act under its guidance.

-- St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

Friday, July 27, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 20:1-17
Psalm 19:8-11
Matthew 13:18-23

You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

-- St. James the Apostle

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 24:3-8
Psalm 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15
Matthew 13:24-30

Grant, O Lord, that my heart may neither desire nor seek anything but what is necessary for the fulfillment of Your Holy Will. May health or sickness, riches or poverty, honors or contempt, humiliations, leave my soul in that state of perfect detachment to which I desire to attain for Your greater honor and Your greater glory. Amen

-- St. Ignatius Loyola

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Genesis 18:20-32
Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8
Colossians 2:12-14
Luke 11:1-13

The prophet refers to some men saying: When they say to you: You are not our brothers, you are to tell them: You are our brothers. Consider whom he intended by these words. Were they the pagans? Hardly; for nowhere either in Scripture or in our traditional manner of speaking do we find them called our brothers. Nor could it refer to the Jews, who do not believe in Christ. Read Saint Paul and you will see that when he speaks of "brothers," without any qualification, he refers always to Christians. If they say, "Why do you seek us? What do you want of us?" we should reply: You are our brothers. They may say, "Leave us alone. We have nothing to do with you." But we have everything to do with you, for we are one in our belief in Christ; and so we should be in one body, under one head.

-- St. Augustine

Monday, July 30, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34
Psalm 106:19-23
Matthew 13:31-35

You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.

-- St. Therese

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5-9, 28
Psalm 103:6-13
Matthew 13:36-43

Even though you possess plenty, you are still indigent. You abound in temporal possessions, but you need things eternal. You listen to the needs of a human beggar, yet yourself are a beggar of God. What you do with those who beg from you is what God will do with His beggar. You are filled and you are empty. Fill your empty neighbor with your fullness, so that your emptiness may be filled from God's fullness.

-- St. Augustine

 

 

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