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Daily Readings
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
Liturgical Year C
Psalm - Ps 122: 1-5
1 A Canticle in steps. I rejoiced in the things that were said to me: “We shall go into the house of the Lord.”
2 Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem has been built as a city, whose participation is unto itself.
4 For to that place, the tribes ascended, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to confess to the name of the Lord.
5 For in that place, seats have sat down in judgment, seats above the house of David.
Daily Readings
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
Liturgical Year C
First Reading - Eph 4: 7-16
7 Yet to each one of us there has been given grace according to the measure allotted by Christ.
8 Because of this, he says: “Ascending on high, he took captivity itself captive; he gave gifts to men.”
9 Now that he has ascended, what is left except for him also to descended, first to the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is the same one who also ascended above all the heavens, so that he might fulfill everything.
11 And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers,
12 for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ,
13 until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ.
14 So may we then no longer be little children, disturbed and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, and by the craftiness which deceives unto error.
15 Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself.
16 For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity
Daily Readings
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
Liturgical Year C
Gospel - Lk 13: 1-9
1 And there were present, at that very time, some who were reporting about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.
2 And responding, he said to them: “Do you think that these Galileans must have sinned more than all other Galileans, because they suffered so much?
3 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish similarly.
4 And those eighteen upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they also were greater transgressors than all the men living in Jerusalem?
5 No, I tell you. But if you do not repent, you will all perish similarly.”
6 And he also told this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree, which was planted in his vineyard. And he came seeking fruit on it, but found none.
7 Then he said to the cultivator of the vineyard: ‘Behold, for these three years I came seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I have found none. Therefore, cut it down. For why should it even occupy the land?’
8 But in response, he said to him: ‘Lord, let it be for this year also, during which time I will dig around it and add fertilizer.
9 And, indeed, it should bear fruit. But if not, in the future, you shall cut it down.’ ”
Saints for 23 October:
ST. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010
St. John Capistrano was a Franciscan friar and is the patron saint of judges and military chaplains. He was born in Capistrano, Italy, in 1386. His father was a former German knight. John was working as a lawyer when he was arrested after trying to broker a peace between the two warring factions of Perugia and Malatesta in 1416.
During his imprisonment, he discerned a change of vocation, even though he had married just before the war. The marriage was never consummated, and with his wife’s permission, it was annulled.
He entered the Franciscans at Perugia in 1416 and was ordained in 1420. He was a very good preacher and gave missions to thousands of people throughout Italy, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia. He established several communities of Franciscan renewal and had the gift of healing. He also defended the teachings of the Church against many of the heresies of the day.
After the fall of Constantinople, he preached for a Crusade against the Muslim Turks. At age 70 he was commissioned by the Pope to lead it, and marched off at the head of 70,000 troops. He won the great battle of Belgrade in the summer of 1456. He died in the field a few months later, in 1456, but his army delivered Europe from the Muslims.
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