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Tuesday 4 June 2024    (other days)
Our Lady of Doncaster 
 on Tuesday of week 9 in Ordinary Time

Using calendar: England - Hallam. You can change this.

Christ is the son of Mary: come, let us adore him.

Year: B(II). Psalm week: 1. Liturgical Colour: White.

Other saints: Saint Clotilde (475 - 545)

France
Clotilde was a Burgundian princess who in about 493 married Clovis, King of the Franks. Brought up a Christian, she had their children baptized, and in due course Clovis himself was baptized, somewhere between 496 and 499, marking the beginning of Christian France.
  When Clovis died in 511, and especially after her son Clodomir died in 524, Clotilde devoted herself to works of charity and founded many churches and religious institutions, setting a pattern that was later followed by many royal widows in Europe. She herself died by the tomb of St Martin of Tours in 545.

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

Second Reading: St Dorotheus

Saint Dorotheus of Gaza was a sixth-century monk and abbot. After spending some time as a monk at the Abba Serid monastery near Gaza, he founded his own monastery not far from there. Many of teachings were preserved and gathered as Directions on Spiritual Training. These were widely read in the East, and translated into Syriac, Arabic, Georgian, and Church Slavonic. His teaching is clear, simple, straightforward and practical, avoiding excesses of both theory and rhetoric.

Liturgical colour: white

White is the colour of heaven. Liturgically, it is used to celebrate feasts of the Lord; Christmas and Easter, the great seasons of the Lord; and the saints. Not that you will always see white in church, because if something more splendid, such as gold, is available, that can and should be used instead. We are, after all, celebrating.
  In the earliest centuries all vestments were white – the white of baptismal purity and of the robes worn by the armies of the redeemed in the Apocalypse, washed white in the blood of the Lamb. As the Church grew secure enough to be able to plan her liturgy, she began to use colour so that our sense of sight could deepen our experience of the mysteries of salvation, just as incense recruits our sense of smell and music that of hearing. Over the centuries various schemes of colour for feasts and seasons were worked out, and it is only as late as the 19th century that they were harmonized into their present form.

Mid-morning reading (Terce)Jeremiah 17:7-8
A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit.

Noon reading (Sext)Proverbs 3:13-15
Happy the man who discovers wisdom, the man who gains discernment: gaining her is more rewarding than silver, more profitable than gold. She is beyond the price of pearls, nothing you could covet is her equal.

Afternoon reading (None)Job 5:17-18
Happy indeed the man whom God corrects! So do not refuse this lesson from the Omnipotent: for he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals.

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