Commentary: From the church bulletin:
The Emperor ordered her to burn a sacrifice to his image. When she refused, Paschasius sentenced her to be defiled in a brothel. The Christian tradition states that when the guards came to take her away, they could not move her even when they hitched her to a team of oxen. Bundles of wood were then heaped about her & set on fire, but would not burn. Finally, she met her death by the sword.Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter eighteen.
Daily Mass Readings
The Book of Sirach, chapter forty-eight, verses one through four & nine through eleven;
Psalm Eighty;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter seventeen, verses nine(a) & ten through thirteen.
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