The Popish Plot
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Mass Readings—Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter seven, verse fifty-one thru chapter eight, verse one(a);
Psalm Thirty-one (R/. six[a]; or "Alleluia"), verses three(c/d) & four; six, seven(b), & eight(a); & seventeen & twenty-one(a/b);
The Gospel according to John, chapter six, verses thirty thru thirty-five.
Commentary: Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, today’s Gospel is from the bread of life discourse: “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” What God has wanted from the beginning is to sit down with his creatures in a fellowship banquet, sharing life and laughter, giving, receiving, and giving back again.Video reflection by Deacon Arthur L. Miller (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops): Easter Reflection.
This is the loop of grace. The more we receive the divine life, the more we should give it away and thereby get more of it.
Throughout the Old Testament, we find images of the holy banquet. On God’s holy mountain, Isaiah says there will be good meats and pure choice wines. And throughout his ministry, Jesus hosts meals to which all are invited. God wants to share his life with us.
This comes to fullest expression at the Eucharist, where Jesus changes the bread and the wine into his Body and Blood, and then invites all of us around this table to feast and share life, to give and to receive and to give again.
Scripture Study—Day 91: Severed Spine, Day 2
The Second Book of Kings, chapter one, verses three & four.
Commentary: Elijah Denounces Ahaziah (cont'd; 2 Kings, 1:3-4).
Papal Quote o' the Day
"How essential it is for the life of society that people not lose faith in their own work. How essential it is that they not suffer disillusionment because of this work."Mother Teresa Quote o' the Day
—Pope St. John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, r. 1978-2005; feast: 22 October)
"Poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love & to be somebody for somebody else. This is where we make our mistake & shove people aside. Not only have we denied the poor a piece of bread, but by thinking that they have no worth & leaving them abandoned in the streets, we have denied them the human dignity that is rightfully theirs as children of God."Saint Quote o' the Day
—St. Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)
"Lay all your cares about the future trustingly into God's hands, & let yourself be guided by the Lord just like a little child."Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day
—St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D. (1891-1942, feast: 9 August)
"It is common for a creature in one stage of its existence to have a capacity for passing into a higher stage. But it is unusual for a creature to have a capacity which can be developed only by some agency outside of it & adapted to it. It is in this condition that man is born of his human parents. He is born with the capacity for life higher than that which he lives as an animal in this world. There is in him a capacity for becoming something different & higher. That capacity lies dormant & dead until the Holy Spirit comes & quickens it. The influence has to come from without. There must be the efficient touch of the Holy Spirit, the impartation of His life. The capacity to be a child of God is man's, but the development of this lies with God. We have to be quickened from without. We cannot give physical birth to ourselves, & we cannot give divine birth to ourselves."
—Ven. Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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