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Thursday, January 20, 2022
BLESSED CYPRIAN M.I TANSI (FEAST)
Office  - Proper, Te Deum
Mass of the Feast, Gloria
Vestment: WHITE
Today’s Rosary:  Glorious Mystery

SAINT FABIAN, Pope and Martyr

SAINT SEBASTIAN, Martyr

Death Anniversary of Bishop John Moore SMA of Bauchi (20/01/2010)

Blessed Cyprian M.I Tansi: Father Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was born in Nigeria in 1903. He was brought up by the missionaries and trained as a teacher and a catechist. Later he decided to join the seminary and in 1937 he was ordained a priest. In 1950 he left his Diocese in order to go to England where he joined the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Bernard. He had been singled out as the ideal candidate to be trained in England and then return to establish a Trappist Monastery in the Diocese of Onitsha in Nigeria. Fr. Tansi lived the monastic life with great faith and humility. Absorbed in prayer, he was a living example of patience and charity. Early in 1964 he was diagnosed with aortic aneurysm and died two weeks later on 20 January, 1964.

 

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, He has sent me to bring good news to the poor.

 

COLLECT
O God, in the priest Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi you joined the apostolic zeal of a pastor to the way of life of a monk.  Grant us by his intercession that persevering in prayer, we seek untiringly the coming of your kingdom.  Through Christ our Lord.
-FIRST READING-
Be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians (Philippians 2:1-11)

Brethren: if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affections and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is  above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The word of the Lord

 

Responsorial Psalm (Is.12:2-6)
R/. Sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel

Truly, God is my salvation,
I trust, I shall not fear 
For the Lord is my strength, 
My song, he become my Saviour,
With joy will draw water from  
The wells of salvation. R/.

Give thanks to the Lord, 
Give praise to his name! 
Make his mighty deeds known to the people! 
Declare the greatness of is name. R/.

R/. Sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Sing a psalm to the Lord 
For he has done glorious deeds, 
Make them known to all the earth! 
People of Zion, sing and shout for joy
For great in your midst is the holy one of Isreal. R/.

 

Or.

 

RESPONSORIAL PSALM   Isaiah 12:2-3.4bcde.5-6
R/. Your anger turned away and you comforted me

“Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
For the Lord GOD is my strength and my song,
And he has become my salvation.”
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. R/.

“Give thanks to the Lord,
Call upon his name;
Make known his deeds among the nations,
Proclaim that his name is exalted.” R/.

“Sing praises to the Lord,  for he has done gloriously;
Let this be known in all the earth.
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.” R/.

 

ALLELUIA 2 Corinthians 5: 19
Alleluia. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Alleluia

 

-GOSPEL-
He sells all that he has and buys that field.
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 13:44-46)

At that time: Jesus said to the crowds, “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”

The Gospel of the Lord




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Comments (6)


Paul mwangi | 2022-01-27 08:56:45

Amen
Mathew Mwangi Kibui | 2022-01-22 23:12:50

That's true
Calvince Ochieng Agola | 2022-01-22 07:00:28

Ameenn
Maxaine Maxwell | 2022-01-21 17:14:09

Ee
Maxaine Maxwell | 2022-01-21 17:14:02

Ee
David Talam | 2022-01-21 11:24:12

okay

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