Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
Knowing that the Christian forces were at a distinct materiel disadvantage, the holy pontiff Pope [St.] Pius V [30 April], called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory, & led a rosary procession in Rome. The feast of the rosary was offered "in memory & in perpetual gratitude of the miraculous victory that the Lord gave to his Christian people that day against the Turkish armada."'Twas also the festival of Saint Mark, Pope (died 336), thirty-fourth Bishop of Rome: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Twas also the festival of Saint Osyth, Abbess & Martyr (died circa 700, A.K.A. Osgyth, etc.), martyred by pagan Anglo-Saxons (a cephalophore), foundress of the convent at Chich, now the village of St. Osyth: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Cephalophore & Wikipedia-link Convent.
Scripture of That Day
Mass Readings—Feria
The Book of Baruch, chapter four, verses five thru twelve, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, & twenty-nine;
Psalm Sixty-nine, verses thirty-three, thirty-four, & thirty-five; & thirty-six & thirty-seven;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter ten, verses seventeen thru twenty-four.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today's Gospel Jesus calls his disciples and us "childlike": "Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike". How so? Children don't know how to dissemble, how to be one way and act another. "Kids say the darndest things," because they don't know how to hide the truth of their reactions.Video reflection by Ellen Mady: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In this, they are like stars or flowers or animals, things that are what they are, unambiguously. The challenge of the spiritual life is to realize what God wants us to be and thereby come to the same simplicity and directness in our existence. To find out what is in line with the deepest grain of our being.
Let me put this another way: children haven't yet learned how to look at themselves. Why can a child immerse himself so eagerly and thoroughly in what he is doing? Because he can lose himself; because he is not looking at himself, conscious of the reactions, expectations, and approval of those around him. The best moments in life occur when we lose the ego, lose ourselves in the world and just are as God wants us to be.
Mass Readings—Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter one, verses twelve, thirteen, & fourteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter one, verses forty-nine;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter one, verses twenty-six thru thirty-eight.
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