Gospel and Saint of the day: 3 December 2019

Book of Isaiah 11,1-10.
On that day, a sprout will sprout from the trunk of Jesse, a shoot will sprout from its roots.
Upon him will rest the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and intelligence, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
He will be pleased with the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by appearances and will not make decisions by hearsay;
but he will judge the wretched with justice and make fair decisions for the oppressed of the country. His word will be a rod that will strike the violent; with the blowing of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Belt of his loins will be justice, belt of his hips loyalty.
The wolf will dwell together with the lamb, the panther will lie down next to the kid; the calf and the young lion will graze together and a boy will guide them.
The cow and the bear will graze together; their babies will lie down together. The lion will feed on straw, like the ox.
The infant will play around on the asphalt hole; the child will put his hand in the den of poisonous snakes.
They will no longer act unfairly nor will they plunder all over my holy mountain, because the wisdom of the Lord will fill the country as the waters cover the sea.
On that day the root of Jesse will rise up for the people, the people will look for it anxiously, its home will be glorious.

Salmi 72(71),2.7-8.12-13.17.
God give your judgment to the king,
your righteousness to the king's son;
Regain your people with justice
and your poor with righteousness.

In his days justice will flourish and peace will abound,
until the moon goes out.
And will dominate from sea to sea,
from the river to the ends of the earth.

He will free the screaming poor man
and the wretch who finds no help,
he will have pity on the weak and the poor
and will save the life of his wretched.

His name lasts forever,
before the sun his name persists.
In him all the lineages of the earth will be blessed
and all peoples will say it blessed.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 10,21-24.
At that time, Jesus exulted in the Holy Spirit and said: «I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the learned and the wise and revealed them to the little ones. Yes, Father, because you liked it this way.
Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father and nobody knows who the Son is if not the Father, nor who the Father is if not the Son and the one to whom the Son wants to reveal him ».
And turning away from the disciples, he said: «Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it. "

03 December

SAINT FRANCIS XAVERIUS

Xavier, Spain, 1506 - Sancian Island, China, December 3, 1552

Student in Paris, he met Saint Ignatius of Loyola and was part of the foundation of the Society of Jesus. He is the greatest missionary of the modern era. He brought the Gospel into contact with the great oriental cultures, adapting it with a wise apostolic sense to the dispositions of the various populations. In his missionary journeys he touched India, Japan, and died while he was preparing to spread the message of Christ in the immense Chinese continent. (Roman Missal)

On the night between 3 and 4 January 1634 San Francesco Saverio appeared to P. Mastrilli S. who was ill. He healed him instantly and promised him that who, confessed and communicated for 9 days, from March 4th to 12th (day of the saint's canonization), would have implored his intercession would infallibly feel the effects of his protection. Here is the origin of the novena which then spread all over the world. Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus after making the novena (1896), a few months before dying, said: “I asked for the grace to do good after my death, and now I am sure I have been answered, because by means of this novena you get everything you want. "

NOVENA to SAN FRANCESCO SAVERIO

O most amiable and most beloved Saint Francis Xavier, with you I reverently adore the divine Majesty. I am delighted with the very special gifts of grace that God has favored you during your earthly life and with those of glory with which he enriched you after death and I warmly thank him. I beg you with all the affection of my heart to ask for me, with your most effective intercession, first of all the grace of living and dying holy. I also beg you to obtain grace for me ... But if what I ask were not according to the greater glory of God and the greater good of my soul, I beg you to beg the Lord to grant me what is most useful to one and to else. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Glory.

O great apostle of the Indies, St. Francis Xavier, to whose marvelous zeal for the health of souls the boundaries of the earth seemed narrow: you, who, burning with ardent charity towards God, were forced to pray to the Lord to moderate his ardor, that you owed so many fruits of apostolate to your total detachment from all earthly things, and to the enlightened abandonment of yourselves in the hands of Providence; deh! impetrate to me also those virtues, which shone so eminent in you, and make me also, in the way that the Lord wills, an apostle. Pater, Ave, Gloria