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Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
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Selected Mass Reading

First Reading — Revelation 20:1-4, 11—21:2

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time. And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Feast Days

Humilis of Bisignano
Humilis of Bisignano Franciscan friar 1582–1637

Saint Humilis of Bisignano was born in 1582 in Bisignano, Calabria, as Luca Antonio Pirozzo, the son of Giovanni Pirozzo and Ginevra Giardino. From childhood he showed a tender love for God, spending long hours in prayer, attending Mass daily, and receiving Holy Communion as often as he was allowed—an unusual devotion for his time. His humility became legendary, especially when he responded to public humiliation by literally turning the other cheek. Though he felt a call to religious life as a young man, he entered the Reformed Friars Minor only in 1609, becoming a lay brother and taking the name Humilis. Illiterate yet filled with spiritual wisdom, he carried out simple tasks with gentleness and was tested by superiors who discerned the authenticity of his mystical ecstasies. He astonished church officials with his clear explanations of the faith, and his holiness led him to serve as companion to the Minister General and later as a trusted adviser in Rome to Popes Gregory XV and Urban VIII. He returned home and died in Bisignano on November 26, 1637. He is venerated as patron of Bisignano, and his feast day is November 27.