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Come, let us adore the Lord, for he is our God.
Year: B(II). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Green.
| St Stephen of Hungary (969 - 1038) |
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He was the son of a pagan father and a Christian mother. He worked hard for the conversion of his country to Christianity, setting up both episcopal sees and monasteries. He was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1001.
He is the patron saint of Hungary, where his feast day, a public holiday, is celebrated on 20 August.
See also the articles in the Catholic Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia.
| Other saints: St Rock (- 1378) |
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Philippines
He was the son of the governor of Montpellier in France. At the age of 20 he went on a pilgrimage to Rome. When a plague broke out in Italy he took care of the infected and cured many. He himself caught the disease, but not wishing to be a burden to others, he went to the woods to die. There a dog brought him food and licked his sores. Later its owner found Rock and looked after him. He died around the year 1378. He is a model of those who carry out works of mercy, and is invoked in time of pestilence.
| Liturgical colour: green |
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The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the season in which we are being neither especially penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).
| Mid-morning reading (Terce) | Wisdom 19:22 © |
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Lord, in every way you have made your people great and glorious. You have never disdained them, but stood by them always and everywhere.
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| Noon reading (Sext) | Deuteronomy 4:7 © |
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What great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?
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| Afternoon reading (None) | Esther 10:3 © |
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The single nation, mine, is Israel, those who cried out to God and were saved. Yes, the Lord has saved his people, the Lord has delivered us from all these evils, God has worked such signs and great wonders as have never happened among the nations.
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