The Popish Plot
"A Devotional Journey into the Mass, Part 1"
'Tis the festival of Saint Amator of Autun, Bishop (floruit circa 270), inaugural Bishop of Autun: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link (List); Diocese-link Autun & Wikipedia-link Autun.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Siricius, Pope (circa 334-399), thirty-eighth (XXXVIII) Bishop of Rome (384-399): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link; Pontifex-link & Wikipedia-link Pontifex.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Conrad of Constance, Bishop (circa 900-975), thirtieth (XXX) Bishop of Constance (934-975): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Constance.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini, Priest & Abbot, O.S.B. Silv. (1177-1267), founder of the Sylvestrine Congregation (O.S.B. Silv.), an all-male branch of the decentralized Benedictine Confederation: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link O.S.B. Silv., Order-link Benedictines, & Wikipedia-link Benedictines.
'Tis also the festival of Blesseds Hugh Taylor, Priest, & Maramduke Bowes, Martyrs (died 1585), martyred in the reign of the English queen Elizabeth I, two of the Eighty-five Martyrs of England & Wales: Martyr-link Hotel Tango, Martyr-link Mike Bravo, & Wikipedia-link; Martyrs-link England & Wales & Wikipedia-link England & Wales.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Gaetana Sterni, Religious (1827-1889), foundress of the Daughters of the Divine Will: Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Giacomo Alberione, Priest (1884-1971, A.K.A. Santiago Alberione, Anglicized as James), founder of the Pauline Family, a congregation of nine religious institutes & one lay association; a peritus ("expert") at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965, the twenty-first [XXI] ecumenical council): Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Paulines, & Wikipedia-link Peritus & Wikipedia-link Vatican II.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Tuesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
The Book of Daniel, chapter two, verses thirty-one thru forty-five;
The Book of Daniel, chapter three (R/. fifty-nine[b]), verses fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty, & sixty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-one, verses five thru eleven.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus responds to questions about the end of the world. When will it come? What will happen?Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Why were the first Christians interested in these questions? The simplest and deepest answer is that they had experienced the end of the world—precisely in the dying and rising of Jesus.
Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God, and the nations conspired against him. The old world seemed to conquer this new world that Jesus embodied. But then, in the Resurrection, they saw that the old world—the world predicated upon death and the world that had done Jesus in—was now defeated.
So awed were they by the Resurrection—and you can sense it in every book and letter of the New Testament—that they awaited the imminent arrival of the new state of affairs, the return of Jesus and the establishment of God’s kingdom. Though Jesus did not immediately return, the old world was over, broken, compromised, its destruction now just a matter of time.
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Relativism Ridge, Day 22
The Book of Judges, chapter fifteen, verses one thru eight.
Commentary: Samson Defeats the Philistines (Judges, 15:1-8).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"A vocation is a call that comes from God's sovereign power & free gift. However, such a call must find an open path in the heart. It must enter into the depths of the subject's thoughts, feelings, & will, in order to influence one's moral behavior."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, feast day: 22 October)
"A Christian mystic from India, Sadhu Sundar Singh, several years ago wanted to go into Tibet to evangelize. He hired a Tibetan guide to take him over the Himalayas. They had gone but a short distance when they became tired & sat on the snow & ice. Then Singh said, 'I think I hear someone groaning in the abyss.' The Tibetan said: 'Well, what difference does it make? We're almost dead ourselves.' Singh went down, found a man, & dragged him to the base of the Himalayas to a little village. Refreshed by his act of charity, he came back to find the Tibetan guide frozen to death on the ice."Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—Ven. Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
"Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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