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Monday 30 January 2023    (other days)
Monday of week 4 in Ordinary Time 

Using calendar: Middle East - Southern Arabia. You can pick a diocese or region.

Let us rejoice in the Lord, with songs let us praise him.

Year: A(I). Psalm week: 4. Liturgical Colour: Green.

Other saints: Saint Aedan of Ferns (c.550 - 632)

Ireland
He was the son of an Irish tribal chieftain and studied under St Finian and St David. He was the first bishop of Ferns, in Ireland, and founded many churches and monasteries. See the article in Wikipedia.

About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:

Second Reading: St Hilary of Poitiers (- 367)

Hilary was born at the beginning of the fourth century. He was elected Bishop of Poitiers in 350. He fought strongly against Arianism and was exiled by the Emperor Constantius. His works are full of wisdom and learning, directed to the strengthening of the Catholic faith and the right interpretation of Scripture. He died in 367. He was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1851.

Liturgical colour: green

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 orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).
Mid-morning reading (Terce)Leviticus 20:26
Be consecrated to me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I will set you apart from all these peoples so that you may be mine.
Noon reading (Sext)Wisdom 15:1,3
You, our God, are kind, loyal and slow to anger, and you govern all things with mercy. To acknowledge you is indeed the perfect virtue, to know your power is the root of immortality.
Afternoon reading (None)Baruch 4:21-22
Take courage, my children, call on God: he will deliver you from tyranny, from the hands of your enemies; for I look to the Eternal for your rescue, and joy has come to me from the Holy One at the mercy soon to reach you from your saviour, the Eternal.

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