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Saints of the Day
'Tis the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows.
'Tis the Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time
The First Letter to Timothy, chapter one, verses one, two, twelve, thirteen, & fourteen;
Psalm Sixteen (R/. cf. five), verses one(b), two(a), & five; seven & eight; & eleven;
The Gospel according to John, chapter nineteen, verses twenty-five, twenty-six, & twenty-seven.
or, the Gospel according to Luke, chapter two, verses thirty-three, thirty-four, & thirty-five.
Commentary: Daily Readings.
Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, we hear in today’s Gospel that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus looked to his mother and the disciple whom he loved, and he said to Mary, “Woman, behold, your son,” and then to John, “Behold, your mother.”Video reflection by Father John M. McKenzie (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops): Daily Reflection.
We are told that “from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” This text supports an ancient tradition that the Apostle John would have taken Mary with him when he traveled to Ephesus in Asia Minor and that both ended their days in that city. Indeed, on the top of a high hill overlooking the Aegean Sea, just outside of Ephesus, there is a modest dwelling that tradition holds to be the house of Mary.
Immaculate Mary, the Mother of God, assumed body and soul into heaven, is not of merely historical or theoretical interest, nor is she simply a spiritual exemplar. Instead, as “Queen of all the saints” (another of her titles), Mary is an ongoing presence, an actor in the life of the Church.
In entrusting Mary to John, Jesus was, in a real sense, entrusting Mary to all those who would be friends of Jesus down through the ages.
Video reflection by Doctor Tim Gray (Augustine Institute/Formed.org): Daily Reflection.
Audio reflection by Doctor John Bergsma (St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology): Letters from Home.
The Letter to the Hebrews, chapter five, verses seven, eight, & nine;
Psalm Thirty-one (R/. seventeen), verses two & three(b), three(c/d) & four, five & six, fifteen & sixteen, & twenty;
The Gospel according to John, chapter nineteen, verses twenty-five, twenty-six, & twenty-seven.
or, the Gospel according to Luke, chapter two, verses thirty-three, thirty-four, & thirty-five.
Commentary: Memorial Readings.
Papal Quote o' the Day
"Mary not only leads us to the Mystery of the Cross like a teacher; she also participates in that Mystery. She suffers with Jesus & suffers with us. With Jesus she also confronts & defeats the powers of evil."Saint Quote o' the Day
—Pope Saint John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, r. 1978-2005; feast: 22 October)
"[Christ] died in body through a love greater than anyone had known. [Mary] died in spirit through a love unlike any other since His."
—Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church (1090-1153, feast: 20 August)
"You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer & prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to Him: I love You, God; I trust You; I believe in You; I need You now. Small things like that. These are wonderful ways to pray & wonderful prayers."Archbishop Sheen Quote o' the Day
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. (1910-1997, feast: 5 September)
"The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!"
—Venerable Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
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