Project BLACK MAMBA: The Long Road Back, Part II

Today is the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children: U.S.A. Bishops-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings
The First Book of Samuel, chapter twenty-four, verses three thru twenty-one;
Psalm Fifty-seven, verses two thru four, six, & eleven;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter three, verses thirteen thru nineteen.

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13 January (last Wednesday) was the Optional Memorial of Saint Hilary, Bishop & Doctor of the Church (circa 310-367, A.K.A. of Poitiers): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. St. Hilary was known in his lifetime as the "Hammer of the Arians" & "Athanasius of the West," after the great defender of Trinitarian orthodoxy against the Arian heresy.

Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Hilary is the pre-eminent Latin writer of the fourth century (before St. Ambrose [7 December]). St. Augustine of Hippo (28 August) called him "the illustrious doctor of the churches," & his works continued to be highly influential in later centuries. Most trustworthy are the notices in St. Jerome (De vir. illus. 100; 30 September), Sulpicius Severus (Chron. ii. 39-45), & in Hilary's own writings. Pope Pius IX formally recognized him as Universae Ecclesiae Doctor in 1851. Some consider St. Hilary of Poitiers as the patron saint of lawyers.

"Christ teaches that only those who become again, as it were, little children, & by the simplicity of that age cut off the inordinate affections of the vice, can enter the kingdom of heaven."—St. Hilary of Poitiers

'Twas also the feast of Blessed Veronica of Milan (circa 1445-1497): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Bl. Veronica was an Augustinian nun, but I cannot as yet identify the proper post-nominal letters for her branch of that sprawling order.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings
The First Book of Samuel, chapter three, verses one thru ten, nineteen, & twenty;
Psalm Forty, verses two, five, & seven thru ten;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter one, verses twenty-nine thru thirty-nine.

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14 January (last Thursday) was the feast of Saint Deusdedit of Canterbury, Bishop (died circa 664): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

'Twas also the feast of Blessed Peter Donders, Priest, C.Ss.R. (1807-1887, A.K.A. Petrus, Peerke): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. The day's Gospel relates the Lord's miraculous curing of a leper. Bl. Peter spend decades of his life caring for & ministering to a leper colony in Dutch Surinam (today, independent Suriname).

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings
The First Book of Samuel, chapter four, verses one thru eleven;
Psalm Forty-four, verses ten, eleven, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-four, & twenty-five;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter one, verses forty thru forty-five.