'Tis also the festival of Saint Gregory III, Pope (died 741), ninetieth Bishop of Rome, who fought against the heresy of Byzantine iconoclasm: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Iconoclasm.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Tis also the festival of Saint James of the Marches, Priest, O.F.M. (circa 1391-1476; in the Italian: Giacomo della Marca, A.K.A. Dominic Gangala): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed James Thompson, Priest & Martyr (died 1582, A.K.A. James Hudson), martyred in the reign of the queen Elizabeth I: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Catherine Labouré, Virgin, D.C. (1806-1876, A.K.A. Zoë Labouré), to whom Our Lady revealed the Miraculous Medal: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Medal.
Commentary: "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!"
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Feria
The Book of Daniel, chapter two, verses thirty-one thru forty-five;
The Book of Daniel, chapter three, verses fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, & sixty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-one, verses five thru eleven.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus responds to questions about the end of the world. When will it come? What will happen?Video reflection by Father Robert Agbo: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Why were the first Christians interested in these questions? The simplest and deepest answer is that they had experienced the end of the world—precisely in the dying and rising of Jesus.
Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God, and the nations conspired against him. The old world seemed to conquer this new world that Jesus embodied. But then, in the Resurrection, they saw that the old world—the world predicated upon death and the world that had done Jesus in—was now defeated.
So awed were they by the Resurrection—and you can sense it in every book and letter of the New Testament—that they awaited the imminent arrival of the new state of affairs, the return of Jesus and the establishment of God’s kingdom. Though Jesus did not immediately return, the old world was over, broken, compromised, its destruction now just a matter of time.
Saint Quote o' the Day
From "Heroes' Words" in 54-Day Basic Training in Holiness by Father Richard Heilman:
"The source of justice is not vengeance but charity."
—St. Bridget of Sweden (23 July)
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The editor of Holy Family's parish bulletin following Franciscan Media's calendar of saints. We here at The Secret Base also regularly utilize Franciscan Media as a resource, but in the full knowledge that the good folks at Franciscan Media space out the saint's festivals, to avoid honoring more than one saint on the same day as much as possible. Holy Family's bulletin editor either does not known this or is not concerned. Last week, there were no hagiographies in the Holy Family bulletin. This week, two saints whose festivals are observed on 23 November are honored on 26 November & 29 November, precisely according to Franciscan Media's calendar. I have subsequently amended the BLACK MAMBA post for 23 November with the belated Holy Family hagiographies: Wayback Machine.
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