Today we also remember Saint Waltrude of Mons (d. c. 688), the daughter of saints, sister of a saint, & mother of saints: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The First Letter to the Thessalonians, chapter one (of five).
Commentary: No longer shall I use The Little White Book as a devotional. Therein the late Bishop Untener encourages the reader to use "active contemplation." That is all well & good, active contemplation is known to me from other sources & is credible. A pair of excerpts to explain active contemplation:
In this way of praying, I read an event in the Gospel & place myself right there in the scene. I then watch the event unfold, using my imagination to fill in the details… It's not mere fantasy. I am faithful to what the Gospel says about the core of the event itself. But I use my imagination to fill in details that are not provided.The problem lies in the bishop's hypocrisy & self-contradiction. In today's reflection, the Little Book goes beyond "filling in details that are not provided" & directly refutes those details that are provided in John's Gospel. The reader is not being encouraged to place herself in the Gospel story, but to rewrite that story to suit her own narrative preferences. Such abuse of Scripture must not be countenanced.
Mass Readings
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter three, verses eleven thru twenty-six;
Psalm Eight, verses two(A,B), five thru nine;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-four, verses thirty-five thru forty-eight.
Commentary: Both Acts & Luke continue directly from yesterday's readings from the same books.
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