'Tis the feast of Saints Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus (first century): Saints-link, Saint-link Juliett & Wikipedia-link Juliett, & Saint-link November & Wikipedia-link November.
Commentary: The men who, according to all four Gospels, laid the Lord in the tomb from which He would rise on Easter Sunday.
'Tis also the feast of Saint Aristedes the Athenian, Apologist (died circa 134): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine '15.
'Tis also the feast of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Bishop (circa 590-651): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine '14.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings
The First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter three, verses one thru nine;
Psalm Thirty-three, verses twelve thru fifteen, twenty, & twenty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter four, verses thirty-eight thru forty-four.
Personal Reading
The First Book of Samuel, chapter one (of thirty-one; verses one thru twenty-eight);
The First Book of Samuel, chapter two (verses one thru thirty-six).
Commentary: Elkanah & His Family at Shiloh (1:1-8), Hannah's Prayer (1:9-19a), Hannah Bears a Son (1:19b-23), Samuel Is Offered to God (1:24-2:11), Wickedness of Eli's Sons (2:12-17), the Lord Rewards Hannah (2:18-21), Eli's Futile Rebuke (2:22-26), & Doom of Eli's House (2:27-36).
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