'Tis the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Week
Mass Readings—Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Book of Deuteronomy, chapter four, verses one, two, six, seven, & eight;
Psalm Fifteen, verses two & three, three & four, & four & five;
The Letter of James, chapter one, verses seventeen, eighteen, twenty-one(b), twenty-two, & twenty-seven;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter seven, verses one thru eight, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, & twenty-three.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, who imposed their interpretation of the Law on the Israelites. Keep in mind that the first Christians and the writers of the first Christian documents were all Jews, or at least people formed by a Jewish thought world. They made sense of Jesus in terms of what were, to them, the Scriptures.
Jesus himself was an observant Jew, and the themes and images of the Holy Scriptures were elemental for him. And he presented himself as the one who would not undermine the Law and the Prophets but fulfill them.
All of those social and religious conventions that had effectively divided Israel, he sought to overcome and to expose as fraudulent. He reached out to everyone: rich and poor, healthy and sick, saints and sinners. And he embodied the obedience of Israel: "I have come only to do the will of the one who sent me." "My food is to do the will of my heavenly Father."
Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Video reflection by Father Claude Burns (uCatholic): Weekend Reflection with Father Pontifex.
Video reflection by Father Desmond Keegan, C.Ss.R. (Sancta Familia Media): Sunday Byte.
Audio reflection by Scott Hahn, Ph.D. (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Breaking the Bread.
Ascension has deigned to remove Jeff Cavins's "Encountering the Word" video reflections from the YouTube & make them accessible only from Ascension's website. Access to the Ascension Dashboard is free (I already had an Ascension account from my facilitation of Epic: A Journey through Church History), but it is far less convenient & I am no longer able to share the reflections with you, dear reader. Alas & alack!
Mass Journal: Week Thirty-six
Reflection by Matthew Kelly, founder of the Dynamic Catholic Institute:
Within each of us there is a light. It is the light of God, & when it shines it reflects not only the wonder of God, but also the greatness of the human spirit. We live in difficult times. I pray that we never become fearful, but rather we turn our focus to nurturing the light within us. I hope we allow that light within us to be nourished & to grow. Darkness has one enemy that it can never defeat, & that is light. Let your light shine! The best thing you can do for yourself is to become the-best-version-of-yourself. The best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your Church, your nation, & God is to become the-best-version-of-yourself.†
Otherwise, 2 September would be the festival of Saint Justus of Lyon, Bishop & Hermit (died circa 390), who attended the Council of Aquileia (381) as an opponent of the Arian heresy: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Council & Wikipedia-link Heresy.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint William of Roskilde, Bishop (died circa 1074): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Brocard, Religious, O.Carm. (died 1231, also spelt Burchard): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Ingrid of Skänninge, Abbess, O.P. (died 1282, A.K.A. of Sweden), foundress of Skänninge Abbey: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Abbey.
'Twould also be the festival of Blessed Jean-François Burté, Priest (O.F.M. Conv.), & Companions, Martyrs (died 1792, A.K.A. the one hundred ninety-one Holy September Martyrs, the Blessed Martyrs of Carmes), martyred in the reign of the Paris Commune, victims of the September Massacres: Martyr-link Juliett Foxtrot Bravo, Martyr-link Alpha, & Martyr-link Sierra Golf; Martyrs-link CXCI ūnus, Martyrs-link CXCI duo, & Wikipedia-link CXCI; Wikipedia-link Massacres.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"What a wonderful thing it is when families realize the power they have. This power works for the sanctification of the world, the mutual sanctification of husband & wife, & the reciprocal influence between parents & children."Little Flower Quote o' the Day
—Venerable Pope John Paul I (1912-1978)
"I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love."Scientist Quote o' the Day
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)
"And that [the unheard-of precision of the process associated with the 'Big Bang'] is supposed to have happened by chance?! What an absurd idea!"
—Walter Thirring (1927-2014)
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