Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Project BLACK MAMBA

Today is the Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church (circa 400-461, A.K.A. Leo I): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
He persuaded Emperor Valentinian to recognize the primacy of the Bishop of Rome in an edict in 445. The doctrine of the Incarnation was formed by him in a letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople, who had already condemned Eutyches. At the Council of Chalcedon this same letter was confirmed as the expression of Catholic Faith concerning the Person of Christ.
Quoth the Holy Family bulletin:
In the year 440 when Leo was in France trying to reconcile warring factions, he was called upon by the clergy & the people to succeed Sixtus III as Pope. He defended the faith against heresy & in 443 convoked an assembly to expose the errors of the Manicheans. He also opposed the Nestorians, the Priscillianists, & the Arians. He defended the doctrine of the Incarnation through the Council of Chalcedon in 451. St. Leo was able to convince Attila the Hun to retreat peacefully from Italy & the Vandal Genseric not to murder the civilians [nor] burn the city.

We also remember Saint Baudolino (circa 700-740), hermit: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings
The Book of Wisdom, chapter two, verse twenty-three thru chapter three, verses nine;
Psalm Thirty-four, verses two & three, sixteen thru nineteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter seventeen, verses seven thru ten;

or, for the Memorial,
The Book of Sirach, chapter thirty-nine, verses six thru ten;
Psalm Thirty-seven, verse thirty(a);
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter sixteen, verses thirteen thru nineteen.

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