The Popish Plot
"33 Days to Morning Glory Collab Intro"
'Tis the Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter: Wikipedia-link.
'Tis the festival of Saint Colmán of Dromore, Bishop & Abbot (died circa 585, A.K.A. of Llangolman, Mocholmóc): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Gottschalk, Martyr (died 1066, also spelt Godescalc), martyred by his pagan brother-in-law Blus: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Robert of Newminster, Priest & Abbot, O.Cist. (circa 1100-1159), co-founder of Fountains Abbey & founding abbot of Newminster Abbey: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Fountains & Wikipedia-link Newminster.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Ana of Saint Bartholomew, Abbess, O.C.D. (circa 1549-1626, A.K.A. Ana García Manzanas): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter twenty-five, verses thirteen(b) thru twenty-one;
Psalm One Hundred Three, verses one & two, eleven & twelve, & nineteen & twenty(a/b);
The Gospel according to John, chapter twenty-one, verses fifteen & nineteen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel tells of the great engagement between the risen Jesus and Peter. Peter knows his sin—he betrayed Jesus three times. But Jesus brings him through the process of repentance and gives him the key to transformation. Three times Peter denied the Lord, and so three times Jesus asks him to reaffirm his faith: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Notice that Christianity is not a set of ideas or convictions or principles. It is a relationship with a person. Do you love Jesus? Has he become your friend?Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
When Simon says yes, Jesus tests him: "Feed my lambs; tend my sheep; feed my sheep." The test of love is action. Are we willing to do what Jesus did? Are we willing to go on mission on his behalf?
Then we hear that wonderful closing section: "As a young man you fastened your belt and went about as you pleased; but when you are older you will stretch out your hands, and another will tie you fast and carry you off against your will." The ultimate test of discipleship is our willingness to abandon our egos and be carried by a power greater than ourselves.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Listen to the voices that call you to great things. They call you to your individual work, honestly & humbly performed; to a right conception of social service; & to a true witness each day of your lives by holiness & sanctity."Little Flower Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John XXIII (1881-1963, feast day: 11 October)
"In truth I had long known that the Lord is more tender than a mother, & I have sounded the depths of more than one mother's heart."Saint Quote o' the Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"We hardly think about reparation any more. We seem to have dropped it in the Church. We have reparation in the human body. When I had my open-heart surgery, I was bleeding to death. I depended upon eighty people who gave me eighty pints of blood. The human body has only eight pints. Volunteers had to supply eighty pints to keep me alive. They were filling up the quota of my life. And just as we have a kidney transplant, even a heart transplant, so we have the transplanting of merits, of prayers, & sacrifices from one member of the Church to the other, to cure those members of their anemic condition. We're living in a decade that needs reparation more than any other decade in the past one hundred years. But we're failing to find it."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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