Commentary: Wayback Machine.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Efflam of Brittany, Hermit & Abbot (circa 448-512): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Leonard of Noblac, Hermit & Abbot (died circa 559, A.K.A. of Noblet, of Limoges, of Limousin; also spelt Lienard, Annard, etc.), founder of the abbey at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Winnoc of Flanders, Abbot (circa 640-717, A.K.A. of Wormhout), founding abbot of the monastery at Wormhout: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Wormhout.
'Tis also the festival of Saint Barlaam of Khutyn, Hermit & Abbot (died circa 1193, A.K.A. of Novgorod, Alexis Milchalevich; also spelt Varlaam), founder of the Khutyn Monastery of the Savior's Transfiguration & of Saint Varlaam: Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Khutyn.
'Tis also the festival of Blessed Christina of Stommeln, Religious (1242-1312, A.K.A. Christina Bruso), a Beguine & a stigmatic: Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link; Order-link Beguines & Wikipedia-link Beguines, & Stigmata-link & Wikipedia-link Stigmata.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The Letter to the Romans, chapter thirteen, verses eight, nine, & ten;
Psalm One Hundred Twelve (R/. five[a]), verses one(b) & two, four & five, & nine;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter fourteen, verses twenty-five thru thirty-three.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in our Gospel today the Lord offers one of the greatest, most “slap you in the face” challenges he ever offered. “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother… and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
There is the great spiritual principle that undergirds the entire Gospel: detachment. The heart of the spiritual life is to love God and then to love everything else for the sake of God. But we sinners, as St. Augustine said, fall into the trap of loving the creature and forgetting the Creator. That’s when we get off the rails.
We treat something less than God as God—and trouble ensues. And this is why Jesus tells his fair-weather fans that they have a very stark choice to make. Jesus must be loved first and last—and everything else in their lives has to find its meaning in relation to him.
In typical Semitic fashion, he makes this point through a stark exaggeration: “Unless you hate your mother and father, wife and children, sisters and brothers…” Well yes, hate them in the measure that they have become gods to you. For precisely in that measure are they dangerous.
Scripture Study—Exodus 90: Day 91: Relativism Ridge, Day 2
The Book of Judges, chapter one, verses twenty-seven thru thirty-five.
Commentary: Israel's Failure to Complete the Conquest (concluded; Judges, 1:27-35).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"We must nourish in ourselves a personal religious activity. To meditate. To pray. To pray means to ascend; to ascend to the first source of everything; of being, thought, action, enjoyment."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978, feast day: 29 May)
"Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults & failures."Chesterton Quote o' the Day
—St. Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997, feast day: 5 September)
"Satire has weakened in our epoch for several reasons, but chiefly, I think, because the world has become too absurd to be satirized."
—G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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