Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Guido Maria Conforti, Bishop (1865-1931), Bishop of Parma (1907-1931), Archbishop of Ravenna (1902-1904), & founder of the Xaverian Missionary Fathers: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Parma, & Diocese-link Ravenna & Wikipedia-link Ravenna.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Narcyz Putz, Priest & Martyr (1877-1942), martyred in the reign of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, one of the One Hundred Eight Blessed Polish Martyrs: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link (List, № 60); Martyrs-link Polska & Wikipedia-link Polska.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg, Priest & Martyr (1875-1943), martyred in the reign of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, honored as one of the Righteous among the Nations: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Righteous among the Nations.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The Letter to the Romans, chapter twelve, verses five thru sixteen(a/b);
Psalm One Hundred Thirty-one, verses one(b/c/d/e), two, & three;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter fourteen, verses fifteen thru twenty-four.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel likens the kingdom of heaven to a man giving a great dinner. In the parallel passage of this parable from the Gospel of Matthew, that man is presented as a king and the great dinner as a wedding feast. Notice that the father (God the Father) is giving a banquet for his son (God the Son), whose bride is the Church. Jesus is the marriage of divinity and humanity—and we his followers are invited to join in the joy of this union.Video reflection by Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The joyful intimacy of the Father and the Son is now offered to us to be shared. Listen to Isaiah to learn the details of this banquet: "On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines."
Now, there is an edge to all of this. For it is the king who is doing the inviting, and it is a wedding banquet for his son. We can see how terribly important it is to respond to the invitation of the King of kings.
We have heard the invitation of God to enter into intimacy with him, to make him the center of our lives, to be married to him in Christ—and often we find the most pathetic excuses not to respond.
Scripture Study—Wisdom Books
The Book of Sirach, chapter twenty-two (verses one thru twenty-seven);
The Book of Sirach, chapter twenty-three (verses one thru twenty-seven).
Commentary: On Wisdom, Folly, & Self-Control (Sirach, 22:1-23:27).
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Relativism Ridge, Day 1
The Book of Judges, chapter 1, verses one thru four, seventeen, eighteen, & nineteen.
Commentary: Israel's Failure to Complete the Conquest (Judges, 1:1-4, 17-19).
Proverb o' the Day (Sirach, 22:27)
O that a guard were set over my mouth,Papal Quote o' the Day
& a seal of prudence upon my lips,
that it may keep me from falling,
so that my tongue may not destroy me!
"To live the Christian life well there is need of continual repairing, of recurring reforms, of repeated renewals. The Christian life is not soft or easy. It is not blindly optimistic. It is joyous but it is not happy-go-lucky."Christian Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978, feast day: 29 May)
"You can choose to look the other way, but you can never again say that you did not know."Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
"There are some people who would hardly accept any direct happiness, unless you sprang it on them as a surprise."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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