Saints + Scripture

'Tis the Optional Memorial of Saint Bruno, Priest, O.Cart. (circa 1030-1101, of Cologne), founder of the Carthusian Order, A.K.A. the Order of Saint Bruno, & the Grande Chartreuse: Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Order-link, Wikipedia-link O.Cart., & Wikipedia-link Charterhouse

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Confessor, ecclesiastical writer, & founder of the Carthusian Order.

'Tis also the Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin S.N.J.M. (1811-1849, A.K.A. Eulalie Mélanie Durocher), foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary: Blessed-link ūna, Blessed-link duæ, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link S.N.J.M.

Commentary: Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Marie Rose was a Canadian Roman Catholic religious siter, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Faith, Virgin & Martyr (died circa 287, died circa 287, of Agen, of Conques; A.K.A. Fides, Foy), martyred in the reign of the Roman emperors Diocletian & Maximian: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Pardulf, Abbot, O.S.B. (circa 657-737, A.K.A. Pardoux), author of the Vita Pardulfi: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Vita.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Epiphania of Pavia, Religious (died circa 800): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Job, chapter forty-two, verses one, two, three, five, six, & twelve thru seventeen;
Psalm One Hundred Nineteen, verses sixty-six, seventy-one, seventy-five, ninety-one, one hundred twenty-five, & one hundred thirty;
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.

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.

Video reflection by Marc DelMonico, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Mass Readings—Optional Memorial of St. Bruno
The Letter to the Philippians, chapter three, verses eight thru fourteen;
Psalm Forty, verse five(a);
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter nine, verses fifty-seven thru sixty-two.

Mass Readings—Optional Memorial of Bl. Marie Rose Durocher
The First Book of Kings, chapter nineteen, verses four thru nine(a) & eleven thru fifteen(a);
Confer Psalm Sixteen, verse five(a);
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter nineteen, verses twenty-seven, twenty-eight, & twenty-nine.

Papal Quote o' the Day

"To conserve & increase that Divine life in which you share, strive for a continuous conversion of mind & heart, firmly struggling with sin that destroys the life of your soul. Return with confidence to God our Father with the repentance that flows from love of Him Who is Supreme Goodness."
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)

Little Flower Quote o' the Day

"The very desires & intuitions of my inmost heart assured me that another & more lovely land awaited me, an abiding city."
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)

Catholic Quote o' the Day

"Man is united with all living creatures by his earthly origin, but only through his soul, which God 'breathed into' him, is he man. This confers upon him his irreplaceable dignity but also his unique responsibility."
—Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (born 1945)