Sunday, March 6, 2011

Roman Catholic Daily Readings For Sunday, 6 March

From USCCB, CNA and Catholic Online:

Dail Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  the Transfiguration of Our Lord

St. Colette


Feastday: March 6
Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and lived at Corby as a solitary. She soon became well known for her holiness and spiritual wisdom, but left her cell in 1406 in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Clares. She received the Poor Clares habit from Peter de Luna, whom the French recognized as Pope under the name of Benedict XIII, with orders to reform the Order and appointing her Superior of all convents she reformed. Despite great opposition, she persisted in her efforts. She founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule and reformed several older convents. She was reknowned for her sanctity, ecstacies, and visions of the Passion, and prophesied her own death in her convent at Ghent, Belgium. A branch of the Poor Clares is still known as the Collettines. She was canonized in 1807. Her feast day is March 6th.



St. Baldred


Feastday: March 6

8th century
Bishop of Scotland, successor of St. Kentigern in Glasgow. He retired from his see to become a hermit on the Firth of Forth.


St. Balther


Feastday: March 6

756
Irish Benedictine hermit of Lindisfarne, also called Baldred. Balther went to Tynningham on the Scottish border to live in retirement, settling at Bass Rock in Northumbria. He lived a life of great asceticism and died at Aldaam. His remains were enshrined with the relics of St. Bilfrid at Durham, England.


St. Basil


Feastday: March 6

335
Bishop of Bologna, Italy, ordained by Pope St. Sylvester in 315. Basil served his diocese until his death.


St. Bilfrid


Feastday: March 6

8th century
Benedictine hermit, the silversmith who bound the Lindisfarne Gospels. He was a hermit in Lindisfarne, England, off the coast of Northumbria, in northern England, where he aided Bishop Eaddfrid in preparing the binding of that masterpiece. He used gold, silver, and gems to bind the famous copy of the Gospels of St. Cuthbert. His relics were enshrined in Durham, England, in the eleventh century.


St. Cadroe


Feastday: March 6

976
A Scottish prince and Benedictine abbot. He studied in Arrnagh, Ireland, and went to England where tradition states he saved London from a fire. In Fleury, France, Cadroe became a Benedictine. Soon after, he became the abbot of Waul sort Monastery on the Meuse River in Belgium. He then went to Metz, Prance, to become abbot of St. Clement's monastery.


St. Conon


Feastday: March 6

250
A Nazarene who worked as a gardener at Carmel in Pamphylia. He was martyred there.


St. Evagrius


Feastday: March 6

380
Bishop of Constantinople. He was chosen for that office but after a few months was banished by Emperor Valens, an Arian. Because of his defense of orthodoxy, Evagrius remained in exile until his death.


St. Fridolin


Feastday: March 6

540
Benedictine abbot, an Irishman venerated as “the Apostle of the Upper Rhine.” He traveled to France and settled in Poitiers, rebuilding the monastery of St. Hilary which had been destroyed by Vandals. He then became a hermit on the Rhine. There he built the abbey of Sackingen. Fridolin was called “the Wanderer’ because of his many evangelizing trips in the region.


Sts. Kyneburga, Kyneswide, & Tibba


Feastday: March 6

680
Abbesses whose relics are in St. Peterborough Abbey in England. Kyneburga and Kyneswide were daughters of King Penda of Mercia . The former founded an abbey at Castor, Northamptonshire. She was joined there by Kyneswide. Tibba was probably a relative who entered the same convent.


St. Marcian


Feastday: March 6
Bishop of Tortona, Italy, and a dis­ciple of St. Barnabas. He was reportedly martyred af­ter serving for forty-five years.


St. Ollegarius


Feastday: March 6

1060-1137
Also known as Olaguerand and Olegari, Augustinian and bishop. A native of Barcelona, Spain, he was the son of Visigoth parents. After entering the Augustinian canons, he became prior at St. Aidan’s monastery and was ordained. In 1115, he was appointed bishop of Barcelona, but it took a papal bull to compel him to accept the office. The following year, he was transferred to Tarragona and elevated to the rank of archbishop. Ollegarius attended the first General Council of the Lateran in 1123, and Pope Callistus II made him a papal legate with the mission of preaching a crusade against the Moors of Spain. As archbishop, Ollegarius rebuilt most of Tarragona, which had been long neglected after its sack and occupation by the Moors, and promoted the work of the Knights Templar in the region.



Scriptural Readings:

Sunday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time




Reading 1



Dt 11:18, 26-28, 32



Moses told the people,

“Take these words of mine into your heart and soul.

Bind them at your wrist as a sign,

and let them be a pendant on your forehead.



“I set before you here, this day, a blessing and a curse:

a blessing for obeying the commandments of the LORD, your God,

which I enjoin on you today;

a curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD, your God,

but turn aside from the way I ordain for you today,

to follow other gods, whom you have not known.”



Ps 31:2-3, 3-4, 17, 25Responsorial PsalmR. (3b) Lord, be my rock of safety.

In you, O LORD, I take refuge;

let me never be put to shame.

In your justice rescue me,

incline your ear to me,

make haste to deliver me!

R. Lord, be my rock of safety.

Be my rock of refuge,

a stronghold to give me safety.

You are my rock and my fortress;

for your name’s sake you will lead and guide me.

R. Lord, be my rock of safety.

Let your face shine upon your servant;

save me in your kindness.

Take courage and be stouthearted,

all you who hope in the LORD.

R. Lord, be my rock of safety.



Rom 3:21-25, 28Reading 2Brothers and sisters,

Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law,

though testified to by the law and the prophets,

the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ

for all who believe.

For there is no distinction;

all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God.

They are justified freely by his grace

through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

whom God set forth as an expiation,

through faith, by his blood.

For we consider that a person is justified by faith

apart from works of the law.



Mt 7:21-27GospelJesus said to his disciples:

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’

will enter the kingdom of heaven,

but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Many will say to me on that day,

‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name?

Did we not drive out demons in your name?

Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’

Then I will declare to them solemnly,

‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’



“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them

will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.

The rain fell, the floods came,

and the winds blew and buffeted the house.

But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine

but does not act on them

will be like a fool who built his house on sand.

The rain fell, the floods came,

and the winds blew and buffeted the house.

And it collapsed and was completely ruined.”



Next Day



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