'Tis the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time during the year"): Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Week
Mass Readings—Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Book of Sirach, chapter thirty-five, verses twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, & eighteen;
Psalm Thirty-four (R/. seven[a]), verses two & three, seventeen & eighteen, & nineteen & twenty-three;
The Second Letter to Timothy, chapter four, verses six, seven, eight, sixteen, seventeen, & eighteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter eighteen, verses nine thru fourteen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today Jesus tells us of the Pharisee and the tax collector—so, stereotypically righteous and unrighteous people—who both enter the temple to pray. But what a world of difference in their manner of praying!Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The entire point of religion is to make us humble before God and to open us to the path of love. Everything else is more or less a footnote. Liturgy, prayer, the precepts of the Church, the Commandments, sacraments, sacramentals—all of it—are finally meant to conform us to the way of love. When they instead turn us away from that path, they have been undermined.
Both St. Paul and the Gospel writers—as well as Jesus himself, of course—are intensely aware of this danger. This is precisely why Paul speaks of the dangers of the Law. He knew that people often use the Law as a weapon of aggression: since I know what is right and wrong in some detail, then I am uniquely positioned to point out your flaws. And when I point out your flaws, I elevate myself. In short, the Law, which is a gift from God, has been co-opted for the purposes of the ego.
Video reflection by Father Claude Burns (uCatholic): Weekend Reflection with Father Pontifex.
Audio reflection by Scott Hahn, Ph.D. (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Breaking the Bread.
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Decision Dome, Day 35
The Book of Joshua, chapter twenty, verses one thru nine.
Commentary: The City of Refuge (Joshua, 20:1-9).
Mass Journal: Week 48
Reflection by Matthew Kelly, founder of the Dynamic Catholic Institute:
Three or four years ago, my brother Andrew gave me a copy of a book titled Letters to a Young Poet. It is a small book that contains a collection of letters written by teh great German lyrics poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kappus, who at the time was a young aspiring poet. In one of the letters, Rilke penned some words that have remained ingrained on my heart since I read & underlined them in that small volume:†
"Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart & try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms & like books that are written in a foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Otherwise, 27 October would be the festival of Saint Abraham the Poor, Hermit (died 372; A.K.A. the Child, the Simple): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Frumentius of Ethiopia, Bishop (died circa 383, the "Apostle of Ethiopia;" A.K.A Kesate Birhan ["Revealer of Light"] & Abba Salama ["Father of Peace"]), first Bishop of Axum & inaugural Abun of Ethiopian Orthodoxy: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Abun.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Oran of Iona, Bishop & Abbot (died circa 563, of Waterford; also spelt Odran, Otteran, etc.), Bishop of Waterford, abbot at Meath, monk at Iona Abbey: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Abbey-link Iona & Wikipedia-link Iona.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Colman of Templeshambo, Abbot (died circa 595), abbot of the monastery of Templeshambo: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Twould also be the festival of Saint Abbán of Magh-Armuidhe (circa 570-620; also spelt Eibbán, Moabba; A.K.A. Abbán moccu Corbmaic): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Nephew of St. Ibar of Meath [23 April].
'Twould also be the festival of Blessed Bartholomew of Vicenza, Bishop, O.P. (circa 1200-1271, A.K.A. of Braganca), Bishop of Nemonicum (1248-1255), Bishop of Vicenza (1255-1271): Blessed-link ūnus, Blessed-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Vicenza.
Madonna Quote o' the Day
"One day, through the Rosary & the Scapular, I will save the world."Papal Quote o' the Day
—Our Lady of Mount Carmel (feast day: 16 July)
"Sing with your voices, sing with your hearts! Make people understand how beautiful it is to pray singing, as you do, with the Church & for the Church. Spread joy, spread goodness, spread light."Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978, feast day: 29 May)
"There is no faith in freedom without faith in free-will."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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