Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
He is best known for the account of his using his military sword to cut his cloak in two, to give half to a beggar clad only in rags in the depth of winter. Conscripted as a soldier into the Roman army, he found the duty incompatible with the Christian faith he adopted & became an early conscientious objector.'Twas also the festival of Saint Turibius of Liébana, Bishop & Abbot, O.S.B. (floruit 533, A.K.A. of Palencia, the Monk), founder of the Monastery of Liébana: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Monastery.
'Twas also the festival of Blessed Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska, Religious & Martyr, C.R. (1899-1939), martyred in the reign of the Führer Adolf Hitler, in the Massacres in Piaśnica; one of the One Hundred Eight Blessed Polish Martyrs: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Piaśnica & Wikipedia-link CVIII.
'Twas also the festival of Blesseds Eugene Bossilkov, Bishop (C.P.); Josaphat Chichkov, Pavel Djidjov, & Kamen Vitchev, Priests (A.A.); Martyrs (died 1952), martyred in the reign of the Communist dictator Vâlko Chervenkov: Martyr-link Echo Bravo & Wikipedia-link Echo Bravo, Martyr-link Juliett Charlie & Wikipedia-link Juliett Charlie, Martyr-link Papa Delta & Wikipedia-link Papa Delta, & Martyr-link Kilo Victor & Wikipedia-link Kilo Victor.
Scripture of That Day
Mass Readings—Feria
The Letter to the Romans, chapter sixteen, verses three thru nine, sixteen, & twenty-two thru twenty-seven;
Psalm One Hundred Forty-five, verses two & three, four & five, & ten & eleven;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter sixteen, verses nine thru fifteen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel focuses on prudence. In the Middle Ages, prudence was called “the queen of the virtues” because it was the virtue that enabled one to do the right thing in a particular situation. Prudence is a feel for the moral situation, something like the feel a quarterback has for the playing field, or a politician for the voters in his district.Video reflection by Sister Annie Bremmer: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Courage, justice, and temperance are wonderful virtues, but without prudence they are blind and, finally, useless. For a person can be as courageous as possible, but if he doesn’t know when, where, and how to play out his courage, that virtue is useless.
Mass Readings—Memorial of St. Martin of Tours
The Book of Isaiah, chapter sixty-one, verses one, two, & three (a/b/c/d);
Confer Psalm Eighty-nine, verse two(a);
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-five, verses thirty-one thru forty.
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Bible Study—Psalms & Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs, chapter ten (verses one thru thirty-two);
The Book of Proverbs, chapter eleven (verses one thru thirty-one).
Commentary: II: First Collection of the Wisdom of Solomon (10:1-11:31).
What's Eating The Last Angry Man?
All fall, I've groused that this is the year "church hates football." That's an unfair characterization, because I've also taken two out-of-town trips to visit family at Xanadu & squandered an entire Saturday at an out-of-town wedding as the plus-one of an acquaintance (never forget that no good deed goes unpunished), but even when I've been in town one or another church activity had cropped up, commanding a disproportionate percentage of my Saturdays, making it difficult to watch most of the valiant Wolverines' games in anything even approximately real time. Add in the four Formula One grands prix held in October—two pair of back-to-back race weekends (I've always disliked back-to-back race weekends for the excessive burden they place on my schedule; the monopolization of time irks me, sometimes above & beyond the joy derived from the weekend's racing), with only a solitary weekend's respite—& I'm constantly playing catch-up. Amidst this additional demands on my time, Saturdays' BLACK MAMBA posts in particular have been drawing the short straw in the competition for my time & attention, which irks me, only making matters worse.
Yes, I agree, this would be a ripe moment to play "Weird Al's" "First World Problems." My life is abundantly blessed & God forgive me if I ever portray it as otherwise. I've been whiny & ungrateful, & acted put-upon, that's what's eating The Last Angry Man.
Bonus! Song o' What's Eating The Last Angry Man?
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "First World Problems" from Mandatory Fun (The Last Angry Man)
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