Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
He was a Latin catholic priest, confessor, theologian, & historian. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin [the translation that became known as the Vulgate], & his commentaries on the Gospels.Wikipedia-link Vulgate
Quoth Minute Meditations from the Popes:
Lord Jesus, let me imitate St. Jerome & aspire to a deep & penetrating knowledge of Scripture. May I be ever more deeply nourished by the Divine Word & find in it a source of life.'Tis the festival of Saint Simon of Crépy, Religious (circa 1047-1082, A.K.A. of Vexin), Count of Amiens: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis the festival of Saint Francis Borgia, Priest, S.J. (1510-1572, "Second Founder of the Society of Jesus"), Duke of Gandía, third Superior General of the Society of Jesus (the "Black Pope"): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Black Pope.
'Tis the festival of Blessed Federico Albert, Priest (1820-1876), founder of the Albertines, formally the Congregation of the Vincentian Sisters of Mary Immaculate: Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis the festival of Blessed Ludwik Roch Gietyngier, Priest & Martyr (1904-1941), martyred in the reign of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, one of the One Hundred Eight Blessed Polish Martyrs: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link (List, № 51); Martyrs-link Polska & Wikipedia-link Polska.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Monday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Zechariah, chapter eight, verses one thru eight;
Psalm One Hundred Two, verses sixteen, seventeen, & eighteen; nineteen, twenty, & twenty-one; & twenty-nine, twenty-two, & twenty-three;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter nine, verses forty-six thru fifty.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus presents a child as the model for his disciples. Jesus has just laid out for his disciples what is going to happen to him in Jerusalem, how he will be rejected, tortured, and killed. Oblivious to this, the disciples are discussing who among them is the most important. For Jesus, the path to greatness lies on the road to Calvary, to self-forgetting love; for the disciples—and for most people of most ages—it lies along the road to ego inflation.Video reflection by Monsignor James Vlaun: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
What is the antidote? A child is proposed as a kind of living icon to these ambitious disciples. We notice first how Jesus physically identifies with the child by placing him by his side. It is as though he is saying that he himself is like a child. How so? Children don’t know how to dissemble, how to be one way and act another. They are what they are; they act in accordance with their deepest nature.
Why was this story of Jesus’ identification with children preserved by all of the synoptic Gospels? Somehow it gets close to the heart of Jesus’ life and message.
Mass Readings—Memorial of St. Jerome
The Second Letter to Timothy, chapter three, verses fourteen thru seventeen;
Psalm One Hundred Nineteen, verses nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, & fourteen;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter thirteen, verses forty-seven thru fifty-two.
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Decision Dome, Day 8
The Book of Joshua, chapter four, verses fifteen thru twenty-four.
Commentary: Twelve Stones Set Up at Gilgal (concluded; Joshua, 4:15-24).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"St. Jerome was the model of devotion & service to the revealed Word. He never tired of reminding the Church that God Himself spoke to the soul of the sacred writers: 'To be ignorant of the Scriptures is not to know Christ.'"Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"If I am to indulge in any of the pleasures of the present life, I am resolved to do it in such a way that the solemn realities of the future Judgment may never be banished from my thoughts."
—St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church (347-420, feast day: 30 September)
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