'Tis also the festival of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop & Martyr (died circa 95, of Athens; also spelt Denis), martyred in the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine. Husband of St. Damaris of Athens [16 October].
'Tis also the festival of Saint Cyprian of Toulon, Bishop (circa 476-546), Bishop of Toulon, a foe of the Semipelagian heresy: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Toulon, & Heresy-link Pelagianism & Wikipedia-link Semipelagianism.
'Tis also the festival of Saints Ewald the Black & Ewald the Fair, Priests & Martyrs (died circa 692, also spelt Hewald), martyred by pagan Saxons: Martyr-link Black, Martyr-link Fair, & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Gérard of Brogne, Priest & Abbot, O.S.B. (circa 895-959, also spelt Djuråd), founder of Brogne Abbey: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Brogne.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Theodora Guérin, Religious, S.P. (1798-1856, "Mother Théodore;" A.K.A. Anne-Thérèse Guérin), foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (S.P.) & Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College: Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duæ, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link S.P. & Wikipedia-link College.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Nehemiah, chapter eight, verses one thru four(a), five & six, & seven(b) thru twelve;
Psalm Nineteen, (R/. 9[a/b]), verses eight, nine, ten, & eleven;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter ten, verses one thru twelve.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, our Gospel, taken from the magnificent tenth chapter of Luke’s Gospel, is a portrait of the Church. It shows us what Jesus wants his followers to be doing and how to do it. Listen to how the passage begins: “The Lord appointed a further seventy-two and sent them in pairs before him to every town and place he intended to visit.”Video reflection by Monsignor James Vlaun: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
We are a missionary Church. We are sent by the Lord to spread his word and do his work. The Christian Gospel is just not something that we are meant to cling to for our own benefit. Rather, it is like seed that we are meant to give away.
He sends them two by two. We do this work together, with others, in community. Ministers need people to support them, pray for them, talk to them, challenge them. St. Francis had an experience of God and then, within months, gathered people around him; St. Dominic, from the beginning, had brothers in his work; St. Teresa of Calcutta attracted a number of her former students to join her in her mission. We don’t go it alone.
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Decision Dome, Day 11
The Book of Joshua, chapter six, verses one thru fourteen.
Commentary: Jericho Taken & Destroyed (Joshua, 6:1-14).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Arriving at a deeper awareness of Christ demands also a deeper awareness of the Holy Spirit. 'To know Who Christ is' & 'to know Who the Spirit is' are two indissolubly linked requirements, the only implying the other."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"When our Lord does come to use the word qahal—the word used for God’s people—He calls it 'My qahal': I will found My Church, My people. The bond that Christ establishes with this new qahal is not a bond of law, it is a bond of love. The very best moment for establishing this bond was a banquet where His Twelve sat about Him in love. Just as Moses often sprinkled blood upon the people as a sign of covenant, so He said that He would make a new covenant, a new pact, a new testament. And there was the sprinkling of the blood of goats & bullocks & sheep; He gave His Own Blood & said, “This is the Blood of the New Covenant”—the new testament, the new pact. This is the bond that will unite all of My people together. Now do you see that the Church is not an institution?"Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—Ven. Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
"If you want the common man to fight, you must be offering him the thing for which he fights best—his own honour & his own home."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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