Summer Book Club: "Bacon & Booze"
'Tis the festival of Saint Macrina the Younger, Virgin (circa 327-379): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine. The granddaughter & namesake of St. Macrina the Elder [14 January], the daughter of Ss. Basil the Elder & Emmelia [30 May], & the sister of Ss. Basil the Great [2 January], Naucratius [?], Peter of Sebaste [9 January], & Gregory of Nyssa [10 January].
'Tis also the festival of Saint Symmachus, Pope (circa 460-514), fifty-first (LI) Bishop of Rome: Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Pontiff.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Ambrose Autpert, Abbot, O.S.B. (circa 730-784): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint John Plessington, Priest & Martyr (circa 1637-1679, A.K.A. William Scarisbrick), martyred in the reign of the Anglo-Scottish king Charles II, a victim of the perjurer Titus Oates's "Popish Plot" hoax; one of the Forty Martyrs of England & Wales: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Plot-link & Wikipedia-link Plot; & Martyrs-link XL & Wikipedia-link XL.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Isaiah, chapter twenty-six, verses seven, eight, nine, twelve, & sixteen thru nineteen;
Psalm One Hundred Two, verses thirteen, fourteen(a/b), & fifteen; sixteen, seventeen, & eighteen; & nineteen, twenty, & twenty-one;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter eleven, verses twenty-eight, twenty-nine, & thirty.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus is not offering us one more philosophy of God. He is offering us the view from the inside of the Trinity. And that is why we should respond to his compelling invitation: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.”Video reflection by Fr. Roger Lopez, O.F.M. (Franciscan Media): U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
What everyone wants is rest, but not in the sense of relaxation. Rest here means achievement of joy. The great illusion is that joy will come from filling up the ego with goods. In fact, it will come from emptying out, from turning one’s life over to the direction of God.
We also find in today’s Gospel those extraordinary words: “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.” Jesus himself is bearing the yoke that he speaks of since he is yoked to the Father, doing only what he sees the Father doing. Jesus is, in his innermost nature, the one who listens and obeys.
What he is saying, therefore, is to stand next to him, just as one ox stands next to the other as they pull together. Just as Jesus is yoked to the Father, so we should be yoked to him, obeying him as he obeys the Father.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns & weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God."Little Flower Quote o' the Day
—Pope Francis (born 1936, reigning since 2013)
"Our Lord never asks sacrifices from us above our strength."Saint Quote o' the Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"The world expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity to all, especially the lowly & poor, obedience, humility, detachment, & self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will difficulty touching the hearts of people today."
—Pope Bl. Paul VI (1897-1978, feast day: 26 September)
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