[Salvation]

August 2012

Pope's intentions

General Intention: That prisoners may be treated with justice and respect for their human dignity

Missionary Intention: Youth Witness to Christ. That young people, called to follow Christ, may be willing to proclaim and bear witness to the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

[Salvation]

Monday, August 20, 2012
St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor of the Church (Memorial)

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel:

Ezekiel 24:15-23 Deuteronomy 32:18-21 Matthew 19:16-22 O wondrous vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God. . . in the unity of its nature, composed equally in all men of a material body and a spiritual soul; in the unity of its immediate end and its mission in the world; in the unity of its dwelling, the earth, whose benefits all men, by right of nature, may use to sustain and develop life; in the unity of its supernatural end: God Himself, to whom all ought to tend; in the unity of the means for attaining this end;. . . in the unity of the redemption wrought by Christ for all. -- Pius XII. Encyclical, Summi pontificatus 3