Project BLACK MAMBA

Today we remember Saint Siricius, Pope (334-399): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

We also remember Saint Conrad of Constance, Bishop (circa 900-975): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

We also remember Blessed Gaetana Sterni, Religious (1827-1889), foundress of the Sisters of the Divine Will: Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link (translation of the Polish Wikipedia entry yields more information).

We also remember Saint John Berchmans, S.J. (1599-1621): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter thirteen (verses one thru thirty-six) & chapter fourteen, verses one thru twenty-one;
The Book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three (verses one thru twenty-two);
Psalm Forty-one (verses one thru fourteen).

Mass Readings
The Book of Daniel, chapter six, verses twelve thru twenty-eight;
The Book of Daniel, chapter three, verses fifty-nine(b) & sixty-eight thru seventy-two;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-one, verses twenty thru twenty-eight;

or, for Thanksgiving Day,
The Book of Sirach, chapter fifty, verses twenty-two thru twenty-four;
Psalm One Hundred Forty-five, verses two thru eleven;
The First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter onem, verses three thru nine;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter seventeen, verses eleven thru nineteen.

Commentary: Quoth the U.S.C.C.B. website: "The following [in our case, the above] are a selection of the readings that may be used on this day," from Lectionary: 943. These certainly aren't the readings that were read this morning at Holy Redeemer.