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READINGS FOR THE WEEK
05 Sunday
Job 7:1-4, 6-7. Ps 146. 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23. Mk 1:29-39. Lect l: 747
Job speaks out as the plain man who cannot make sense of the suffering to be
found in daily life. The questions that are raised by the tedium and shortness
of life are asked in every age. The Christian sees a meaning through the life of
Christ, for whom suffering became a means of achieving true life. Healing is a
lifting up, and all suffering can lift up the world anew.
06 Monday
1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13. Ps 131. Mk
6:53-56. Lect ll: 512
It was Solomon who eventually built the temple that David desired to create. The
presence of God filled it at its dedication. God chooses to dwell among his
people.
St Paul Miki and Companions
martyred at Nagasaki, Japan, in 1597. The 6 Franciscans, 17 Franciscan
Tertiaries, and 3 Jesuits died suspended on crosses.
07 Tuesday
1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30. Ps83. Mk. 7:1-13. Lect ll: 514
Solomon’s prayer is that God, who has kept his promise about the building of the
temple, may also keep it in relation to the dynasty.
St Mel
died in 488. He is said to have been a Briton who came to Ireland with Patrick,
with whom he worked until he was ordained in Ardagh. He is one of the earliest
Irish saints and gave the religious veil to Brigid.
08 Wednesday
1 Kgs 10:1-10. Ps36. Mk 7:14-23. Lect ll: 517
The Queen of Sheba, impressed by the ordered result of Solomon’s wise rule,
recognises the one true God of Israel. Jesus reminds us that lack of interior
wisdom leads to chaos in life.
St Jerome Emiliani, died 1537,
after a military career he. founded the Clerks Regular of Somaschi for the care
of orphans and the poor. Patron saint of orphans.
St Josephine Bakhita,
1868 - 1947, a native of Sudan, brought as a slave to Italy where she became a
Christian and later entered the Institute of Canossian Daughters of Charity in
Venice.
09 Thursday
1 Kgs 11:4-13. Ps 105. Mk 7:24-30. Lect ll: 519
Solomon’s political marriages have resulted in foreign religious influences.
This detracts from the purity of worship of the true God. The kingdom will be
punished by enemies rising up against it. God desires a faithful heart.
10 Friday
1 Kgs 11:29-32, 12:19. Ps80. Mk 7:31-37. Lect ll: 521
Taxation and forced labour bring on the revolt of Jeroboam. This will lead to
the division of the kingdom, the ten northern tribes going to Jeroboam. ‘The
people did not heed my voice and Israel would not obey.’ Christ asks us not to
be deaf to his voice.
St Scholastica, died 543, sister
of St Benedict. She spent her life as a consecrated virgin. Patron of convulsive
children.
11 Saturday
1 Kgs 12:26-32, 13:33-34. Ps 105. Mk 8:1-10. Lect ll: 523
Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day
in 1858, Our Lady first appeared to the 14 year old Bernadette Soubirous. Later
Bernadette was to learn that the mysterious lady was the Blessed Virgin and to
hear from her lips, ‘I am the Immaculate Conception.’ In 1992 Pope John Paul II
instituted the World Day of the Sick to be held on the commemoration of Our Lady
of Lourdes.
St Gobnait is one of the best
loved saints in West Cork but only traditions concerning her life survive. The
main part of her life was spent in Ballyvourney, Co. Cork, where there has
always been a deep devotion to her, and which is a place of pilgrimage on this
day and on Pentecost. Her gifts of caring for and curing the sick have been a
significant part of her cult through the centuries. Happily her memorial
coincides with the World Day for the Sick.?
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