Saints + Scripture

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'Tis the festival of Saint Genebald of Laon, Bishop (died circa 555; also spelt Guénebauld, etc.), inaugural Bishop of Laon (499-555): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Diocese-link & Wikipedia-link Laon.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Father of the second bishop of Laon, St. Latro [?].

'Tis also the festival of Saint Anseric of Soissons, Bishop (died circa 652; also spelt Ansery, Anscher), twentieth (XX) Bishop of Soissons (623-652): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link (List); Wikipedia-link Soissons.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Bertin the Great, Abbot, O.S.B. (circa 615-709), inaugural abbot of the Abbey of Saint Bertin (649-709, originally St. Peter's): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Saint Bertin.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Alvito of León, Bishop, O.S.B. (died 1063; also spelt Albite, A.K.A. Aloito, Aloyto), Bishop of León (1057-1063): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link León.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Alberto of Butrio, Abbot, O.S.B. (died 1073), founding abbot of the Saint Alberto of Butrio Abbey (A.K.A. the Hermitage of Butrio): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link (List, italiano); Abbey-link & Wikipedia-link Sant'Alberto di Butrio.

We also remember Venerable Maria Luigia of the Blessed Sacrament, Religious, T.O.S.F. (1826-1886, A.K.A. Maria Velotti), co-foundress of the Franciscan Sisters Adorers of the Holy Cross: Venerable-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Venerable Maria was scheduled to be beatified—to become Blessed Maria—on 16 May 2020, but the beatification was delayed due to the pandemic & the panic. As of this writing, her beatification is scheduled for 26 September 2020.

'Tis also the festival of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Religious, M.C. (1910-1997, "Mother Teresa;" A.K.A. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu), foundress of the Missionaries of Charity (1950, M.C.): Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duæ, Saint-link tria, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link M.C.

Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
The First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter four, verses six(b) thru fifteen;
Psalm One Hundred Forty-five (R/. eighteen), verses seventeen & eighteen, nineteen & twenty, & twenty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter six, verses one thru fifteen.

Commentary: Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is Lord of the Sabbath.

Again and again, Jesus is portrayed as violating the sacred command to rest on the seventh day. His disciples pick grain on the sabbath, and many times, he cures on the Sabbath, much to the dismay of the protectors of Jewish law.

When challenged, he declares himself Lord of the Sabbath (a breathtaking claim for a Jew to make, since Yahweh alone could be assigned that title), and clarified that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

In short, he claimed the properly divine prerogative of relativizing the significance of perhaps the defining practice of pious Jews, and placing it in subordination to the kingdom of God.

Video reflection by Father Warren Savage (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops): Daily Reflection.

Scripture Study—Day 91: Decapitation Rock, Day 34
The Second Book of Samuel, chapter twenty-four, verses two & eight thru fourteen.

Commentary: David Takes a Census (2 Samuel, 24:2, 8-9) & Judgment on David's Sins (2 Samuel, 24:10-14).

Papal Quote o' the Day

"Observe the panorama of the firmament & the world; measure, if you can, their vastness. Affirm the incredible distinction between the Creator & the created world. At the same time, recognize, confess, & celebrate the unshakable necessity that unites creation with its Creator."
—Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978, r. 1963-1978; feast: 29 May)

Saint Quote o' the Day

"Never forget that the way which leads to Heaven is narrow; that the gate leading to life is narrow & low."
—St. Clare of Assisi, O.S.C. (1194-1253, feast: 11 August)

Mother Teresa Quote o' the Day

"The reason I was given the Nobel Prize was because of the poor. The prize, however, went beyond appearances. In fact, it awakened consciences in favor of the poor all over the world. It became a sort of reminder that the poor are our brothers & sisters, & that we have a duty to treat them with love."
—St. Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)

Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day

"We can define the word 'sacrament' in a very broad way. In Greek it means 'mystery'. But a sacrament is any material or visible thing that is used as a sign or a channel of spiritual communication. We will go back about as far as we can to explain mysteries. We might say that the Lord made this world with a sense of humor. What do we mean by 'a sense of humor'? We mean He made it sacramentally. We say a person has a sense of humor if he can see through things. We say a person has no sense of humor if he cannot see through things. We say he's too thick. Now God made this world with a sense of humor, in the sense that we were always to see Him through things, as the poets do. We would look out on a mountain & think of the power of God; on the sunset, & think of the beauty of God; on a snowflake, & dwell on the purity of God. Notice that we would not be taking this world as seriously as do the materialists, to whom a mountain is just a mountain, a sunset is just a sunset, & the snowflake is just a snowflake. The serious-minded people of this world write only in prose. But those who have this penetrating glance of perceiving the eternal through time, the divine through the human, have what we call a sacramental outlook on the universe."
—Ven. Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)