Monday June 3, 2024
ST CHARLES LWANGA & Comp., Mm. (Memorial)
Office: Memorial, Psalter Week 1
Mass and Preface of the Memorial
Vestment: Red
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries
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FIRST READING
He has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature.
A reading from the second Letter of Saint Peter (2 Peter 1:2-7)
Beloved: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature. For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 91: 1-2.14-15ab.15c-16 (R. see 2b)
R/. O my God, I trust in you
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High,
and abides in the shade of the Almighty,
says to the Lord, “My refuge,
my stronghold, my God in whom I trust!” R/.
Since he clings to me in love, I will free him,
protect him, for he knows my name.
When he calls on me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in distress. R/.
R/. O my God, I trust in you
I will deliver him, and give him glory.
With length of days I will content him;
I will show him my saving power. R/.
ALLELUIA Revelation 1:5ac
Alleluia. Jesus Christ, you are the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead; you have loved us and washed away our sins in your blood. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
“They took the beloved son, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark (Mark 12: 1-12)
At that time: Jesus began to speak to the chief priests and the scribes and the elders in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.” He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. “What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this Scripture: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?” And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.
The Gospel of the Lord.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Jesus Christ is the word of God and we ought to freely and lovingly welcome him into our lives. The love and cares for the world and the things therein can make the Christian’s response to the love of God grow cold. In the parable of Jesus to the scribes and elders, the tenants were so hard-hearted that they weren’t grateful to the vineyard owner as evidenced by their wickedness towards his servants and the son and their refusing the vineyard owner what naturally belongs to him. Following the advice of Saint Peter, we should always let God reign supreme in our lives by being docile to the promptings of his spirit in us.
PERSONAL DEVOTIONAL
Sing with us, “into my life 2x, come into my life, Lord Jesus, come into stay…”
– Tell Jesus about the heavy loads crushing you.
– Ask for mercy for the times you took your troubles to other gods.
– Invite Jesus into your life and family.
Let Us Pray
Mary my Mother of Perpetual Help, with trust in you as my spiritual mother in the family of Christ Jesus, I implore your maternal intercession, inspired me by the example of your life and faith in the name of Jesus, I think of you at that moment when, full of faith and trust, you accepted God’s call to be the mother of His Son. Help me, your child, to accept with joy my own calling in life in the name of Jesus. When you learned that your cousin Elizabeth was in need you immediately went to serve her and offer your help. Help me, like you, to be concerned for others in the name of Jesus. I think of you, Mother, at the foot of the cross. Your heart must have bled to see your Son in agony. But your Joy was great when he rose from the dead, victorious over the powers of evil. Mother of sorrows, help me through the trials and disappointments of life. Help me not to lose heart. May I share with you and your Son the joy of having courageously faced all the challenges of life in the name of Jesus, Amen
