Saints + Scripture

The Popish Plot
"Impersonal Evangelization"

'Tis the Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin, M.S.C. (1850-1917), foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.): Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duæ, & Wikipedia-link; Order-link M.S.C. & Wikipedia-link M.S.C.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C., also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a catholic religious institute that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Brice of Tours, Bishop (circa 370-444), fourth (IV) Bishop of Tours: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Diocese-link Tours & Wikipedia-link Tours.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Gredifael, Abbot (sixth century), founding abbot of the monastery of Pawl Hen & Saint Gredifael's Church: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Saint Gredifael's.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Nicholas the Great, Pope (circa 800-867, Nicholas I), one hundredth fifth (CV) Bishop of Rome: Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Pontifex-link & Wikipedia-link Pontifex.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Didacus of Alcalá, Religious, O.F.M. (circa 1400-1463, A.K.A. Diego de San Nicolás), namesake of the Mission San Diego de Alcalá & thus the City of San Diego: Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Mission & Wikipedia-link San Diego.

'Tis also the festival of Blessed Carl Lampert, Priest & Martyr (1894-1944), martyred in the reign of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Wisdom, chapter six, verses one thru eleven;
Psalm Eighty-two (R/. eight[a]), verses three & four, six & seven;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter seventeen, verses eleven thru nineteen.

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

Friends, today’s Gospel recounts the Lord’s healing of ten lepers, only one of whom comes back to give thanks. Leprosy frightened people in ancient times, just as contagious and mysterious diseases frighten people today. But more than this, leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore incapable of engaging in the act of worship. It is not accidental that the person responsible for examining the patient in ancient Israel was the priest. The priest’s job was to monitor the whole process of Israelite worship, very much including who could and couldn’t participate in the temple.

What is so important about worship? To worship is to order the whole of one’s life toward the living God, and in doing so, one becomes interiorly and exteriorly rightly ordered. To worship is to signal to oneself what one’s life is finally about. Worship is not something that God needs, but it is very much something that we need.

Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Mass Readings—Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
The Book of Hosea, chapter two, verses sixteen(b/c), seventeen(c/d), twenty-one, & twenty-two;
Psalm Forty-five (R/. eleven);
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter ten, verses thirty-eight thru forty-two.

Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Relativism Ridge, Day 9
The Book of Judges, chapter four, verses one thru four, six, seven, & twelve thru sixteen.

Commentary: Deborah & Barak (Judges, 4:1-4, 6-7, & 12-16).

Proverb o' the Day (Sirach, 14:14)

Do not deprive yourself of a happy day;
let not your share of desired good pass by you.

Papal Quote o' the Day

"Whenever the Holy Spirit intervenes, He leaves people astonished."
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)

Saint Quote o' the Day

"I will go anywhere & do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him."
—St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917, feast day: 13 November)

Chesterton Quote o' the Day

"Good literature is a thing quite different from books. And in one respect books are more important even than good literature."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)