'Tis the Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter: Wikipedia-link.
'Tis the festival of Saint Maximinus of Trier, Bishop (died circa 349), fifth (V) Bishop of Trier, who fiercely opposed the Arian heresy & attended the Synod of Serdica (343): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Diocese-link Trier & Wikipedia-link Trier, Wikipedia-link Heresy, & Wikipedia-link Synod.
Commentary: Wayback Machine. Brother of St. Maxentius of Poitiers [?].
'Tis also the festival of Saint Eleutherius of Rocca d'Arce (floruit twelfth century): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Brother of Ss. Grimoaldus [29 September] & Fulk [22 May].
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Richard Thirkeld, Priest & Martyr (died 1583), martyred in the reign of the English queen Elizabeth I, one of the Martyrs of Douai: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Martyrs-link Douai & Wikipedia-link Douai.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Paul VI, Pope (1897-1978, A.K.A. Giovanni Battista Montini), two hundred sixty-second (CCLXII) Bishop of Rome, author of the encyclical Humanae vitae (1968) who promulgated the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite Mass (1970, A.K.A. the Mass of Paul VI): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, Saint-link trēs, & Wikipedia-link; Pontiff-link, Wikipedia-link Pontiff, Wikipedia-link Humanae vitae, & Wikipedia-link Mass.
Commentary: Wayback Machine. St. Paul VI was canonized on 14 October 2018.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter seventeen, verses fifteen & twenty-two thru chapter eighteen, verse one;
Psalm One Hundred Forty-eight, verses one & two, eleven & twelve, thirteen, & fourteen;
The Gospel according to John, chapter sixteen, verses twelve thru fifteen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel declares that when the Spirit comes, he will guide us into all truth. There is a story I’ve heard about Jean-Luc Marion that, if it isn’t true, should be. In the midst of a lively lecture on Descartes, a student asked a pointed question about God. Marion looked at her and said, "Go to Sunday Mass for a year and then return and ask me that question again."Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Marion’s response was not just a clever one-liner. If true knowledge of God depends upon immersion in the Holy Spirit, then that knowledge is a function of an entire form of life, involving prayer, self-denial, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and the forgiveness of one’s enemies. We don’t think our way to an understanding of God so much as we live our way to it.
Thomas Aquinas always said that he owed his theology far more to the persistence of his prayer than to the acuity of his mind. His penetration of the divine mystery flowed from his life in the Holy Spirit. And so today we pray, "Come, Holy Spirit, come!"
Papal Quote o' the Day
"The Sacrament of mercy & of forgiveness has to be lived out with a feeling of great confidence in Divine salvation & a sincere desire for conversion. We must seek it in reconciliation with God & with out brothers & sisters."Little Flower Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"It is true that Love knows no such word as 'impossible,' for it deems 'all things possible, all things allowed.'"Saint Quote o' the Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"Happiness does not depend on accumulating more things, but on the mindset we have concerning the things we already do possess."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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