Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:
St. Volusian
Feastday: January 18
496
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain, possibly as a martyr.
St. Ammonius
Feastday: January 18
250
Martyr in the persecutions of Emperor Trajanus Decius. He and a fellow soldier, Moseus, were taken prisoner for having hired Christians and were condemned to labor in the mines of Bithynia. They were reportedly burned to death
St. Archelais and Companions
Feastday: January 18
293
Martyr with Thecla and Susanna. They were virgins of the Romagna region of Italy who traveled to Nola, in Campania, because of the persecutions. In Nola, they were arrested and taken to Salerno. All three were cruelly tortured and slain.
St. Ulfrid
Feastday: January 18
1028
Missionary and martyr. Oiginally from England, he journeyed to the Continent to participate in the missionary efforts of the era in Germany and Sweden. He was martyred by pagans after chopping down an idol of the god Thor, an act also performed by St. Boniface.
St. Vincenza Mary Lopez y Vicuna
Feastday: January 18
1890
Foundress of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate. Born at Cascante, Navarre, Spain, March 22, 1847, she was the daughter of a lawyer. Vincenza took a vow of chastity, aided by her aunt, Eulolia de Vicuna, and she refused the arranged marriage which had been organized by her parents. In 1876, she established the Daughters in order to offer some protection to the vulnerable young women who worked as domestic servants. Papal approval was secured in 1888 from Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), and Vincenza died two years later in Madrld on December 26, after intense suffering from illness. Beatified in 1950, she was canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI (1963-1978).
St. Day
Feastday: January 18
unknown
A saint patron of a Comish church near Redruth, England. Nothing else is known.
St. Deicola
Feastday: January 18
625
Monk and companion of St. Columbanus, also called Deicolus, Desle, Dichul, Deel, Delle, or Deille. He was an elder brother of St. Gall, born in Leinster, Ireland. As one of St. Columbanus’ twelve disciples, Deicola accompanied him to France in 567 and worked with him in Austrasia and in Burgundy, France. In 610, St. Columbanus was exiled by Thierry II. Deicola, too old to accompany him, founded the monastery of Lure in the Vosges, France, and lived there as a hermit.
St. Fazzio
Feastday: January 18
1272
Pilgrim and founder, also called Facius, Fatius, and Fazius. He was born in Verona, Italy, in 1190 and became a goldsmith. Fazzio made pilgrimages to Compostela, Spain, and Rome. He founded the Order of the Holy Spirit at Cremona, a charitable group for the care of pilgrims and the sick.
St. Leobard
Feastday: January 18
593
Hermit and disciple of St. Gregory of Tours, France. He lived as a recluse for more than two decades near Marmoutier.
St. Liberata
Feastday: January 18
580
Founder of Santa Margarita in Como, Italy. She was the sister of St. Faustina. Their relics are in the cathedral of Como.
Sts. Moseus & Ammonius
Feastday: January 18
250
Martyred soldiers. Arrested for their faith, they were sentenced to life imprisonment in the mines of Bithynia, in Asia Minor. They were burned alive.
Scriptural Readings:
First Reading - Heb 6:10-20from CNA - Daily Readings 10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered, and do minister to the saints. 11 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end: 12 That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises. 13 For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, 14 Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee, and multiplying I shall multiply thee. 15 And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for confirmation is the end of all their controversy. 17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us. 19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil; 20 Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for us, made a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
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Psalm - Ps 11:1-2,4-5,9.10c
1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just: and in the congregation. 2 Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills4 He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord: 5 He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:9 He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:10 his praise continueth for ever and ever
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Gospel - Mk 2:23-28
23 And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn. 24 And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? 25 And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and they that were with him? 26 How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him? 27 And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.
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