Tuesday, 05 October 2010
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh week in Ordinary Time

St. Mary Faustina Kowalska, Virgin (1905-1938), St. Placid, Martyr (6th century)



Commentary of the day
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity : "Mary sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak"

Reading

Gal. 1:13-24.
For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the
church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,
and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my race,
since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
But when (God), who from my mother's womb had set me apart and called me
through his grace, was pleased
to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I
did not immediately consult flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather,
I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Kephas and
remained with him for fifteen days.
But I did not see any other of the apostles, only James the brother of the
Lord.
(As to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.)
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ;
they only kept hearing that "the one who once was persecuting us is now
preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
So they glorified God because of me.


Lk 10:38-42.
As they continued their journey he entered a village where a woman whose
name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary (who) sat beside the Lord at his feet listening
to him speak.
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not
care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to
help me."
The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried
about many things.
There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it
will not be taken from her."