Saints of the Day
'Tis the Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest, S.J. (circa 1581-1654, the "Slave of the Slaves" & "Apostle of Cartagena").
Quoth Minute Meditations from the Popes:
O Lord, Saint Peter Claver reached out in a truly heroic manner to those who were of a different race & religion from him. May my love be as fruitful & as color blind.'Tis the Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Saturday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
The Letter to the Colossians, chapter one, verses twenty-one, twenty-two, & twenty-three;
Psalm Fifty-four (R/. six), verses three & four, six & eight;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter six, verses one thru five.
Commentary: Daily Readings.
Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is Lord of the sabbath.Video reflection by Monsignor Richard B. Hilgartner (U.S.C. of Catholic Bishops): Daily Reflection.
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 clarifies 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 Doctor Tim Gray (Augustine Institute/Formed.org): Daily Reflection.
Audio reflection by Mister Clement Harrold (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Letters from Home.
Mass Readings—Memorial of Saint Peter Claver
The Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty-eight, verses six thru eleven;
Psalm One (R/. two[a]), verses one & two, three, & four & six;
(or, R/. Psalm Forty, verse five[a]; or, Psalm Ninety-two, verses thirteen & foruteen);
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-five, verses thirty-one thru forty.
Commentary: Memorial Readings.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Love is characterized by a deep respect for all people, regardless of their race, belief, or whatever makes them different from ourselves. Love responds generously to the needs of the poor, & it is marked by compassion for those in sorrow."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope Saint John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, r. 1978-2005; feast: 22 October)
"We must speak to them with our hands before we try to speak to them with our lips."
—Saint Peter Claver, S.J. (1581-1654, feast: 9 September)
"At the very beginning, after leaving my convent at Loreto, when I arrived in Calcutta I was alone. I had only a box & five rupees. A man from Air India wanted to give me a nice suitcase to carry the few things I had with me. I said to him, 'There is no shame in carrying a cardboard box.' But there is no shame in asking when we need guidance or help."Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)
"Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands & inspires sacrifice. But love of God & man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture that patronizes the downtrodden group. One of the cruelest things that can happen to a human being is to be tolerated. Never once did Our Lord say, 'Tolerate your enemies!' But He did say, 'Love your enemies; do goo to them that hate you' (Matthew, 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature's animosities."
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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