Ordinary Time: July 27th
Thursday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Other Commemorations: St. Pantaleon, Martyr (RM)
MASS READINGS
July 27, 2006 (Readings on USCCB website)
COLLECT PRAYER
Lord, be merciful to your people. Fill us with your gifts and make us always eager to serve you in faith, hope, and love. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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"The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field" (Matt 13:44-45).
Before the reform of the General Roman Calendar today was the feast of St. Pantaleon, a martyr of Nicomedia (Asia Minor), under Diocletian. He is honored by the Greeks as a wonder-worker.
St. Pantaleon
He was a celebrated "fee-less physician" from Nicomedia who placed his skill in the service of God's kingdom! According to legend he was the emperor's ordinary physician. He is said to have strayed from the faith because of the voluptuous life at the court, but the zealous priest Hermolaus, by pointing out the example of his virtuous mother, effected such a change that Pantaleon distributed his goods among the poor and devoted his talents for healing to the most wretched and poor among the sick.
Because of his Christian faith he was seized by order of Emperor Maximian, tied to the rack and scorched with torches. But in these tortures Christ appeared, granting him further strength. Finally a stroke of the sword ended his sufferings (Martyrology). He is the patron of physicians and belongs to the "Fourteen Holy Helpers."
—Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
Patronage: bachelors; consumption; doctors; midwives; physicians; torture victims; tuberculosis; protection of domestic animals.
Symbols and Representation: Budding olive branch or olive tree; vials of medicine; lion; club; sword and vase.
Highlights and Things to Do:
- Read more about St. Pantaleon:
- Watch this Youtube video on St. Pantaleon.
- Read St. Pantaleon: Patron Saint of Trousers and Lotteries.
- See Prayer to St. Pantaleon for Protection from any Illness.
- Read more about the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
- See Saint Pantaleon: The Iconography for images of St. Pataleon.
