Saints + Scripture: Paschaltide

The Popish Plot
Taco Tuesday: "vEaster"

'Tis the festival of Saint John of Beverley, Bishop, O.S.B. (died 721), founder of a monastery around which arose the town of Beverley, later Bishop of Hexham, & then Bishop of York: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Minster & Wikipedia-link Town; & Wikipedia-link Hexham & Wikipedia-link York.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

'Tis also the festival of Blessed Alberto of Bergamo, T.O.S.D. (1214-1279): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Rose Verenini, Religious, M.P.V. (1656-1728), foundress of the Verenini Sisters (M.P.V.), formally the Religious Teachers Verenini: Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duæ, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link M.P.V.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Agostino Roscelli, Priest (1818-1902), founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter seven, verse fifty-one thru chapter eight, verse one(a);
Psalm Thirty-one, verses three(c/d) & four; six, seven(b), & eight(a); & seventeen & twenty-one(a/b);
The Gospel according to John, chapter six, verses thirty thru thirty-five.

Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):

Friends, today’s Gospel is from the bread of life discourse: "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst." What God has wanted from the beginning is to sit down with his creatures in a fellowship banquet, sharing life and laughter, giving, receiving, and giving back again.

This is the loop of grace. The more we receive the divine life, the more we should give it away and thereby get more of it.

Throughout the Old Testament, we find images of the holy banquet. On God’s holy mountain, Isaiah says there will be good meats and pure choice wines. And throughout his ministry, Jesus hosts meals to which all are invited. God wants to share his life with us.

This comes to fullest expression at the Eucharist, where Jesus identifies himself so radically with the bread and the wine that they change into his Body and Blood, and then invites all of us around this table to feast and share life, to give and to receive and to give again.

Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Scripture Study—Reflection Peak: Day 5
The Book of Genesis, chapter one, verses nine thru thirteen.

Commentary: The Six Days of Creation & the Sabbath (cont'd; Genesis, 1:9-13).

Scripture Study—Wisdom Books
The Book of the Proverbs, chapter seven (verses one thru twenty-seven);
The Book of the Proverbs, chapter eighteen (verses one thru twenty-four);
The Book of the Proverbs, chapter twenty-seven (verses one thru twenty-seven).

Commentary: False Attractions of Adultery (Proverbs, 7:1-27), Solomon's Proverbs on Life & Conduct (cont'd; Proverbs, 18:1-24), & Further Wise Sayings of Solomon (cont'd; Proverbs, 27:1-27)

Proverb o' the Day (Proverbs, 18:2)

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing his opinion.

Papal Quote o' the Day

"Be careful to defend always & everywhere the just rights & true freedom of persons—without discrimination. Such discrimination occurs when we become sensitive only to those victims whose ideas or convictions we share."
—Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978, feast day: 26 September)

Little Flower Quote o' the Day

"I am a little brush that Jesus has chosen in order to paint His own image in the souls entrusted to my care."
—St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church (1873-1897, feast day: 1 October)

Saint Quote o' the Day

"The Church then has had a virgin birth. As we lose our respect for the virgin birth of Christ, we lose our respect for the virgin birth of the Church. We no longer understand her as the bride of Christ. When we get to heaven, in what celebration are we going to assist? Nuptials: the marriage of the Lamb. In the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation we have another image of the Blessed Mother in the constant struggle of the Church, or the bride, with the devil. “And there appeared a great portent in heaven, a woman robed with the sun, beneath her feet the moon & on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant & in the anguish of her labor she cried out to be delivered.” The original Greek is in the present tense. Even in the Book of Revelation the Blessed Mother is always bringing forth children. That’s the Church."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)