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Daily Readings for Saturday November 06, 2010
Nov 6, 2010 (23 hours ago)Psalm - Ps 112:1b-2,5-6,8a,9from CNA - Daily Readings
1b Of the return of Haggai and Zachariah2 His offspring will be powerful on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.5 Pleasing is the man who shows mercy and lends. He will order his words with judgment.6 For he will not be disturbed in eternity.8a His heart has been confirmed.9 He has distributed, he has given to the poor. His justice shall remain from age to age. His horn shall be exalted in glory.
Reading 1, Phil 4:10-19
10 As for me, I am full of joy in the Lord, now that at last your consideration for me has blossomed again; though I recognise that you really did have consideration before, but had no opportunity to show it.
11 I do not say this because I have lacked anything; I have learnt to manage with whatever I have.
12 I know how to live modestly, and I know how to live luxuriously too: in every way now I have mastered the secret of all conditions: full stomach and empty stomach, plenty and poverty.
13 There is nothing I cannot do in the One who strengthens me.
14 All the same, it was good of you to share with me in my hardships.
15 In the early days of the gospel, as you of Philippi well know, when I left Macedonia, no church other than yourselves made common account with me in the matter of expenditure and receipts. You were the only ones;
16 and what is more, you have twice sent me what I needed in Thessalonica.
17 It is not the gift that I value most; what I value is the interest that is mounting up in your account.
18 I have all that I need and more: I am fully provided, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the offering that you sent, a pleasing smell, the sacrifice which is acceptable and pleasing to God.
19 And my God will fulfil all your needs out of the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Gospel, Lk 16:9-15
9 'And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
10 Anyone who is trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest in great.
11 If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches?
12 And if you are not trustworthy with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?
13 'No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.'
14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and jeered at him.
15 He said to them, 'You are the very ones who pass yourselves off as upright in people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed in human eyes is loathsome in the sight of God.
Saints/Feasts to be commemmorated:
St. Erlafrid
Feastday: November 6
830
Benedictine abbot, formerly the count of Caiw in Swabia, Germany. He founded Hirschau Abbey and promoted monastic expansion and standards in the region.
ST. JEAN-THÉOPHANE VÉNARD
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2010
St. Jean-Théophane Vénard is one of the Martyrs of Vietnam. He was born in 1829 France and was raised in a pious family. He was ordained for the missions in 1852 and worked for 15 months in Hong Kong, before being transferred to Vietnam.
Christians in the area were being persecuted by the ruler Minh-Menh, and just before Fr. Jean-Théophane’s arrival, clergy were forced into hiding. For four years, Fr. Jean-Théophane took great risks by hiding during the daytime and ministering to the people by night. He was eventually betrayed by a parishioner and arrested on Nov. 20, 1860.
He was tried and told his life would be saved if he renounced his faith, but he refused. He was kept in a cage for several weeks, during which he wrote joyful letters to his family.
“We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later,” he wrote to his father in France. “Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.”
St. Jean-Théophane Vénard was beheaded Feb. 2, 1861. The Vietnamese authorities stuck his head on a pole to serve as a warning to others. Later, his severed head was recovered and is preserved as a relic in Vietnam. The rest of his body rests in the crypt of the Missions Etrangères in Paris.
He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988
ST. LEONARD OF NOBLAC
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2010
St Leonard of Noblac was a Frank courtier. The Queen suggested to Leonard that he invoke the help of God to repel an invading army. He did, the tide of battle turned, and Clovis was victorious. Saint Remigius, bishop of Rheims used this miracle to convert the King, Leonard, and a thousand of followers to Christianity. Following his conversion, St. Leonard refused the offer of a See from his grandfather, King Clovis I.
He then began a life of austerity, sanctification, and preaching. His desire to know God grew until he decided to enter the monastery at Orleans. His brother, Saint Lifiard, followed his example and, leaving the King's court, built a monastery at Meun, and lived there.
Leonard desired further seclusion. He withdrew into the forest of Limousin, converting many on the way, and living on herbs, wild fruits, and spring water. He built himself an oratory, leaving it only for journeys to churches. Others begged to live with him, and a monastery formed. Leonard had a great compassion for prisoners, converting many and obtaining their release.
He died of natural causes around 559. After his death, churches were dedicated to him in France, England, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Poland and other countries. Pilgrims flocked to his tomb, and in one small town in Bavaria there are records of 4,000 favors granted through Saint Leonard's intercession
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