Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
A physician & companion of St. Paul [25 January, 29 June] whose gospel preserved the most extensive biography of Jesus Christ.Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Feast of St. Luke
The Second Letter to Timothy, chapter four, verses ten thru seventeen(b);
Psalm One Hundred Forty-five (R/. twelve), verses ten & eleven, twelve & thirteen, & seventeen & eighteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter ten, verses one thru nine.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, our Gospel shows us what Jesus wants his followers to be doing and how they ought do it. We are a missionary church. We are sent by the Lord to spread his word and do his work. The Gospel is just not something that we are meant to cling to for our own benefit; it is seed that we are meant to give away.Soter, healer of both body and spirit. The second great task of the Church is to proclaim that "the reign of God is at hand." The Church is an announcing, proclaiming, evangelizing organism.Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Prayer is not incidental to ministry. It is not decorative. It is the lifeblood of the Church’s efforts. Without it, nothing will succeed; without it, no ministers will come forward. At all times pray, pray, pray.
Poverty and simplicity of life are prerequisites to the effective proclamation of the Gospel. Anthony, Benedict, Chrysostom, Francis and Clare, Dominic, Ignatius, Mother Teresa—across the board, the most effective proclaimers of the Gospel are those who rely on the providence of God and strip themselves of worldliness.
What is the first thing that the minister should do upon entering a city? "Cure the sick there." Christ is
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Decision Dome, Day 26
The Book of Joshua, chapter thirteen, verses eight thru thirteen.
Commentary: Still Unconquered Parts of Canaan (concluded; Joshua, 13:8-13).
'Tis also the festival of Saint Asclepiades the Confessor, Bishop (died circa 217, of Antioch), tenth (X) Patriarch of Antioch: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Antioch.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Justus of Beauvais, Martyr (circa 278-287), martyred in the reign of the Roman emperors Diocletian & Maximian, prior to the Great Persecution, a cephalophore: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Persecutions-link & Wikipedia-link Cephalophore.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Julian the Hermit (floruit 362, of Mesopotamia): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Amabilis of Riom, Priest (died 475, A.K.A. of Auvergne): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"God's love is tender & merciful, patient & full of understanding. In the Scriptures, & also in the living memory of the Church, the love of God is indeed depicted & has been experienced as the compassionate love of a mother."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"I really cannot imagine anything more cold and more enslaved, more paralyzing to human reason or destructive of freedom than that thing to which millions of people are prostrating themselves every day, namely, the terrible, anonymous authority of “they.” “They say.” “They are wearing green this year.” “They say that Catholics adore Mary.” “They say that the hair will be worn shorter this year.” “They say that Freud is the thing.” Who are they? Countless slaves and puppets are bowing down daily before that invisible, tyrannical myth of they. No wonder dictatorships arose to personalize that terrible slavery. These millions will not accept the authority of Christ who rose from the dead, who continues to live in the Church. We know whom we obey. Millions do not know whom they are obeying. They cannot point to the persons or the object behind that terrible, anonymous “they” But thank God we know. We obey our Lord in the Church."Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—Ven. Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
"The sages get men work, but the saints get them holidays."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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