Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
A disappointed suitor accused Lucy of being Christian, & she was executed in Syracuse, Sicily. She is one of eight women who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.Wikipedia-link Canon of the Mass.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Elizabeth Rose, Abbess, O.S.B. (died circa 1130), foundress of the Sainte-Marie-du-Rozoy convent: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Antonio Grassi, Priest, C.O. (1592-1671, A.K.A. Vincenzo Grassi): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Advent Weekday
The Book of Isaiah, chapter forty, verses twenty-five thru thirty-one;
Psalm One Hundred Three, verses one & two, three & four, & eight & ten;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter eleven, verses twenty-eight, twenty-nine, & thirty.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus is not offering us one more philosophy of God. He is offering us the view from the inside of the Trinity. And that is why we should respond to his compelling invitation: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest."Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
What everyone wants is rest, but not in the sense of relaxation. Rest here means achievement of joy. The great illusion is that joy will come from filling up the ego with goods. In fact, it will come from emptying out, from turning one’s life over to the direction of God.
We also find in today’s Gospel those extraordinary words: "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me." Jesus himself is bearing the yoke that he speaks of since he is yoked to the Father, doing only what he sees the Father doing. Jesus is, in his innermost nature, the one who listens and obeys.
What he is saying, therefore, is to stand next to him, just as one ox stands next to the other as they pull together. Just as Jesus is yoked to the Father, so we should be yoked to him, obeying him as he obeys the Father.
Mass Readings—Memorial of St. Lucy
The Second Letter to the Corinthians, chapter ten, verse eleven thru chapter eleven, verse two;
Psalm Thirty-one, verse six;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-five, verses one thru thirteen.
Saint Quote o' the Day
"It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly & patiently to improving yourselves & society, making the world more human & fraternal."
—Pope St. John Paul II (22 October)
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