Wednesday, 5 September was the festival of Saint Genebald, Bishop (died circa 555, of Laon; also spelt Guénebauld, etc.): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine. Father of the bishop St. Latro [?].
'Twas also the festival of Saint Anseric, Bishop (died circa 652, of Soissons; also spelt Ansery, Anscher): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link (List).
'Twas also the festival of Saint Bertin the Great, Abbot, O.S.B. (circa 615-709), founder of the Abbey of Saint Bertin: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Abbey.
'Twas also the festival of Saint Alberto of Butrio, Abbot, O.S.B. (died 1073), founder of the Butrio Hermitage: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link (List, italiano).
'Twas also the festival of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Religious, M.C. (1910-1997, "Mother Teresa;" A.K.A. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu), foundress of the Missionaries of Charity: Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, Saint-link trēs, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link M.C.
Scripture of That Day
Mass Readings—Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
The First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter three, verses one thru nine;
Psalm Thirty-three, verses twelve & thirteen, fourteen & fifteen, & twenty & twenty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter four, verses thirty-eight thru forty-four.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in our Gospel we see Jesus in action. He is always hurrying from place to place, on the go. Today Luke gives us a sort of "day in the life" of Jesus. And it is quite a day! Our Gospel opens just after the dramatic expulsion of a demon in the Capernaum synagogue. And after entering the house of Simon, Jesus cures Peter’s mother-in-law, and then the entire town comes to his door. He spends the whole evening curing presumably hundreds who were variously afflicted.Soter, rendered in Latin as Salvator, which just means "the bearer of the salus" or health. Jesus is portrayed as a healer, a savior. In him, divinity and humanity have come together; in him, the divine life and divine power are breaking through. God’s deepest intentions for his beloved creatures appears—what God plans for us in the Kingdom to come is now historically anticipated.Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, in an attempt to make Jesus more palatable to rationalists and "realists," theologians put great stress on Jesus’ preaching, especially his ethical teaching.
But this is not the Jesus that Luke presents. Rather, he is a healer:
Papal Quote o' That Day
"I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even it it is destroyed by vices, drugs, or anything else—God is in this person's life. You can—you must—try to seek God in every human life."Little Flower Quote o' That Day
—Pope Francis (born 1936, reigning since 2013)
"Jesus, I believe firmly that You are the Light."Saint Quote o' That Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
—St. Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997, feast day: 5 September)
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