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Week of February 7, 2010
| Sunday: |
Is 6:1-2a, 3-8/1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8, 11/Lk 5:1-11 |
| Monday: |
1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13/Mk 6:53-56 |
| Tuesday: |
1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30/Mk 7:1-13 |
| Wednesday: |
1 Kgs 10:1-10/Mk 7:14-23 |
| Thursday: |
1 Kgs 11:4-13/Mk 7:24-30 |
| Friday: |
1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19/Mk 7:31-37 |
| Saturday: |
1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34/Mk 8:1-10 |
| Next Sunday: |
Jer 17:5-8/1 Cor 15:12, 16-20/Lk 6:17, 20-26 |
Saint of the Day - February 8
 Saint Jerome Emiliani
He was born into a wealthy family, the son of Angelo and Eleanor Mauroceni Emiliani. His father died when Jerome was a teenager, and he ran away from home at age 15. After a dissolute youth, he became a soldier in Venice in 1506. Commanding the League of Cambrai forces at the fortress of Castelnuovo in the mountains near Treviso, he was captured by Venetian forces on 27 August 1511 and was chained in a dungeon. He prayed to Our Lady for help, was miraculously freed by an apparition, and hung his chains on a church wall as an offering. He was mayor of Treviso while studying for the priesthood, and was ordained in the spotted-fever plague year of 1518. He cared for the sick, and housed orphans in his own home. At night he roamed the streets, burying those who had collapsed and died unattended. He contracted the fever himself, but survived. He founded six orphanages, a shelter for penitent prostitutes and a hospital. He also founded the Order of Somaschi (Company of Servants of the Poor, or Somascan Fathers, or Regular Clergy of Somasca) in c.1532, a congregation of clerks regular vowed to the care of orphans, and named after the town of Somasca where they started and where they founded a seminary; the society was given approval by Pope Paul III in 1540 and continue their work today in a dozen countries. It is believed he developed the question-and-answer catechism technique for teaching children religion. He was declared the patron of orphans and abandoned children in 1928 by Pope Pius XI. He was born in 1481 at Venice, Italy, and he died on 8 February 1537 in Italy of a disease caught when tending the sick. He was beatified on 22 September 1747, and he was canonized on 16 July 1767.
Scripture quotations are from the Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1965, 1966 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
