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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Jesus Calming the Tempest – Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This artwork\, by J. Tissot\, shows Jesus calming a storm on the sea of Galilee. The depiction is based on the account of the Savior’s miracle\, in Mark 4:39-40 : “And rising up\, he rebuked the wind\, and said to the sea: ‘Peace\, be still.’ And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm. And he said to them: ‘Why are you fearful? Have you not faith yet?’ And they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: ‘Who is this (thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him?’ ” \nJesus Stilling the Tempest-James Tissot \nWhile crossing the Sea of Galilee in a ship during the night\, Jesus and his disciples are overtaken by a storm. Tissot omits any sign of landfall\, heightening the sense of danger in the rough\, stormy sea. Awakened by his followers\, who fear for their lives\, Jesus quiets the tempest with a dramatic and dynamic gesture and rebukes his companions for their lack of faith. \nTissot’s commentary connects this shipboard miracle with the miraculous draught of fishes\, noting: “It was in the same boat\, which then symbolized the Church\, that Our Lord stilled the tempest and reassured the disciples\, who typified redeemed mankind.” \nMk 4:39-41 \nThe Calming of a Storm at Sea. \n39He woke up\, rebuked the wind\, and said to the sea\, “Quiet! Be still!”* The wind ceased and there was great calm. \n40Then he asked them\, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” \n41* n They were filled with great awe and said to one another\, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?” \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/4 \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nWhen Jesus spoke again to the people\, he said\, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness\, but will have the light of life.”   \nJn 8:12
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture*Parable* The Good Samaritan – Bassano
DESCRIPTION:The Good Samaritan of Jesus Christ’s parable lifts the naked and wounded traveler from the wayside. In the background\, the selfish priest and Levite continue on their way. Artwork by J. Bassano. \nLk 10:29-37 \nThe Parable of the Good Samaritan. \n29But because he wished to justify himself\, he said to Jesus\, “And who is my neighbor?” \n30Jesus replied\, “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. \n31* A priest happened to be going down that road\, but when he saw him\, he passed by on the opposite side. \n32Likewise a Levite came to the place\, and when he saw him\, he passed by on the opposite side. \n33But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. \n34He approached the victim\, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal\, took him to an inn and cared for him. \n35The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction\, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you\, I shall repay you on my way back.’ \n36Which of these three\, in your opinion\, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” \n37He answered\, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him\, “Go and do likewise.” \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/10 \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nFor the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger\, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.  \nHABAKKUK 2:3
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Tower of Babel – Bruegel
DESCRIPTION:A fantastical depiction of the construction of the Tower of Babel\, by artist P. Bruegel. \nGn 11:1-9 \nTower of Babel.* \n1The whole world had the same language and the same words. \n2When they were migrating from the east\, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar* and settled there. \n3They said to one another\, “Come\, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone\, and bitumen for mortar. \n4Then they said\, “Come\, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky\,* and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.” \n5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. \n6Then the LORD said: If now\, while they are one people and all have the same language\, they have started to do this\, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach. \n7Come\, let us go down and there confuse their language\, so that no one will understand the speech of another. \n8So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth\, and they stopped building the city. \n9That is why it was called Babel\,* because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. From there the LORD scattered them over all the earth. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/11 \nInterpretation of Tower of Babel-By Pieter Bruegel the Elder \nOne of a number of panel paintings devoted to religious art\, this picture (commissioned by the Antwerp art collector Niclaes Jonghelinck and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum\, Vienna) was the second of three versions of the biblical Tower of Babel\, painted by Pieter Bruegel. The first version (now lost)\, was an ivory miniature\, which was listed in the inventory of the Croatian-born Italian miniaturist Giulio Clovio (1498-1578)\, with whom Bruegel collaborated in Rome in 1553. The third version was a smaller oil painting on wood\, dated 1564\, which is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The Rotterdam painting is generally thought to date from a year or so after the picture in Vienna. The Viennese “Big” Tower\, is almost twice as large as the Rotterdam “Little” Tower and is characterized by a more traditional treatment of the subject. Based on Genesis 11: 1-9\, in which the Lord confounds the people who began to build “a tower whose top may reach unto Heaven”\, it includes – as the other version does not – the scene of King Nimrod and his retinue appearing before the genuflecting crowd of workmen. This event is not mentioned in the Bible but was suggested in Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews. It was important to Bruegel as underlining the sin of the King’s pride and overbearing which the picture is supposed to highlight. Like Saul\, in The Suicide of Saul (1562\, Kunsthistorisches Museum\, Vienna)\, Nimrod too is punished for his pride. Both men were given similar treatment by Dante in his Purgatory (where the scene is represented in carving XII\, 40-42)\, by Sebastian Brant in his Ship of Fools. Curiously\, despite this\, the Rotterdam version is the one most often copied – see for instance\, Tower of Babel (1568) by Lucas van Valckenborgh (1535-97)\, now in the Alte Pinakothek\, Munich. Both the Old Testament theme of Bruegel’s painting\, and its low-key composition\, are in line with the new aesthetic guidelines of Protestant Reformation art of the 16th century. \nRoman Colosseum: A Symbol of Human Hubris \nThe rendering of the tower as a huge structure with spiraling ramps was relatively common in Northern Renaissance art such as book illumination. But the inspiration for other aspects of Bruegel’s extraordinary architecture came from the Colosseum in Rome\, perhaps by way of early reminiscences and sketches\, or the series of prints made by Bruegel’s main publisher\, Hieronymus Cock. The Roman Colosseum was regarded at the time as a symbol of hubris and of persecution. Or\, to put it another way\, Rome was the Eternal City\, built by the Caesars to last for ever. Its subsequent decay and collapse was understood by Protestants to symbolize the vanity and transience of Man’s earthly ambitions and efforts. \nThe Tower is Babylonian in meaning\, but Roman in design. His most important forerunner in this respect was Simon Bening – the painter of the miniature of the Babylonian Tower in the Grimani Breviary – who populated the ramps and the environment of the Tower with untold multitudes of workmen and building utensils\, and showed Nimrod in a similiarly commanding and slave-driving role. However\, the Tower of the Grimani Breviary has a square shape and looks much less Roman than does Bruegel’s. Paradoxically\, judging by the noticeable instability of Bruegel’s structure\, the painting seems to indicate that the ultimate failure of the Tower was due to engineering difficulties instead of God’s decision to strip the people of their common tongue. \nBruegel has placed the Tower in a coastal landscape\, near a river\, perhaps reflecting the fact that waterways\, rather than unpaved country roads\, carried most of the heavy goods during the 16th century. The subject and its site was also intended to mirror the situation in Antwerp\, where rapid building growth had caused widespread problems. The painting thus served as an allegorical warning for the city’s authorities\, similar to that of Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) (c.1562\, Museum Mayer van den Bergh\, Antwerp). \nThe Futility of Human Ambitions and Efforts \nThe detailed illustration of the frenzied efforts of the engineers\, masons and labourers suggests a second moral – the pointlessness of human endeavour\, a theme also touched on by Sebastian Brant in his Ship of Fools. Bruegel returned to this theme in several different works: in Hunters in the Snow (1565\, Kunsthistorisches Museum\, Vienna) for instance\, he conveys the idea that man is a powerless entity\, of no consequence\, who is at the mercy of the natural seasons and rhythms of the year. \nDetailed Realism \nThe Tower of Babel features a host of meticulous details\, relating to the construction of the building – enhanced\, no doubt\, by Bruegel’s intricate knowledge of building techniques\, acquired during his execution of several paintings illustrating the digging of the Antwerp-Brussels canal. To the right is a huge crane\, very similar to the one placed conspiciously above the harbour in the Grimani Breviary. The ant-like labourers are busy loading it with huge stone slabs which they have received from below and will pass onto the the higher ramp where others are prepared to receive them. One workman climbs a ladder toward that section\, which is being transformed from rock into structured architecture by a host of other people. On the left\, part of the facade is already being completed in part; a woman enters one of the gates\, a ladder sticks out of one of the upper windows\, farther up another large crowd of labourers works on the roof – and so on ad infinitum. \nWhatever the reasonableness of these individual actions may be – and this point has not yet been fully investigated – one immediately senses the grotesque inadequacy of means as well as the folly of the entire enterprise. However industrious these ‘ants’ may be\, they are up against hopeless odds which are brilliantly demonstrated. Within the same level completion of the last detail stands against bare beginnings\, with intermediary stages in between\, thus intimating a frantic race against inexorable time\, while the upper part is still invaded by clouds. \nMovement \nWhile Bruegel took enormous pleasure in rendering every detail with an almost scientific exactness\, he was also intensely curious about the subject of movement. The Rotterdam Tower of Babel\, for instance\, seems to be experiencing some form of unsteady rotation. Bruegel’s fascination with movement led him to explore the falling figure\, a pictorial concept which finds its ultimate expression in The Parable of the Blind (1568). \nBruegel’s Oeuvre \nOne of the most versatile figures in Flemish painting\, Bruegel’s pictures cover a wide range of subjects. As well as landscape painting\, his religious paintings feature a number of conventional Biblical scenes (Massacre of the Innocents\, Procession to Calvary) including parables of Christ (Parable of the Blind)\, as well as mythological subjects (Landscape with the Fall of Icarus) and proverbial sayings (Netherlands Proverbs). His allegorical pictures are typically of a religious character\, see for instance the two sets of engravings – The Vices (1556-57) and The Virtues (1559-60)\, although they also include social satires. His ‘peasant’ genre painting – exemplified by The Wedding Dance (1566)\, The Land of Cockaigne (1567)\, The Peasant Wedding (1568) and The Peasant Dance (1568) – are also well known\, as are less straightforward works such as The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)\, Children’s Games (1560)\, and Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) (1562). \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nI will praise you\, Lord\, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise. I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness\, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.   \nPs 138:1–2
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SUMMARY:Saints Simon and Jude\, Apostles
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nOctober 28.—STS. SIMON and JUDE. \nSIMON was a simple Galilean\, called by Our Lord to be one of the pillars of His Church. Zelotes\, “the zealot\,” was the surname which he bore among the disciples. Armed with this zeal he went forth to the combat against unbelief and sin\, and made conquest of many souls for His divine Lord. \nThe apostle Jude\, whom the Church commemorates on the same day\, was a brother of St. James the Less. They were called “brethren of the Lord\,” on account of their relationship to His Blessed Mother. St. Jude preached first in Mesopotamia\, as St. Simon did in Egypt; and finally they both met in Persia\, where they won their crown together. \nReflection.—Zeal is an ardent love which makes a man fearless in defense of God’s honor\, and earnest at all costs to make known the truth. If we would be children of the Saints\, we must be zealous for the Faith. \nSaints Simon and Jude\, Apostles Feast Eph 2:19-22/Lk 6:12-16 (666) Pss Prop. \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/simon-765\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. SIMON \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/jude-659\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. JUDE \n*St. Simon the Apostle (Detail) – Francesca. \nThis is a portrait of Saint Simon the Apostle\, who is also known as “Simon the Zealot”\, by Francesca. \nhttps://restoredtraditions.com/products/st-simon-apostle-francesca?_pos=4&_sid=679bb90d3&_ss=r \n**Simon the Zealot (Acts 1:13\, Luke 6:15) or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean (Matthew 10:4\, Mark 3:18; Greek: Σίμων ὁ Κανανίτης; Coptic: ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ ⲡⲓ-ⲕⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉⲟⲥ; Classical Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܩܢܢܝܐ) was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him\, but Saint Jerome does not include him in De viris illustribus written between 392 and 393 AD. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_the_Zealot \n***St. Jude the Apostle\, Detail – Buoninsegna. \nThis is a detail from a larger work by D. Buoninsegna showing Saint Jude Thaddeus\, who is an Apostle of Jesus\, a martyr\, and the Patron Saint of the Impossible. \nhttps://restoredtraditions.com/products/st-jude-apostle-detail-buoninsegna?_pos=3&_sid=63c769346&_ss=r \n****Jude (Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου translit. Ioúdas Iakóvou) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified with Thaddeus (Greek: Θαδδαῖος; Coptic: ⲑⲁⲇⲇⲉⲟⲥ; Syriac/Aramaic: ܝܗܘܕܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ)\, and is also variously called Judas Thaddaeus\, Jude Thaddaeus\, Jude of James\, or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes identified with Jude\, the brother of Jesus\, but is clearly distinguished from Judas Iscariot\, the apostle who betrayed Jesus prior to his crucifixion. Catholic writer Michal Hunt suggests that Judas Thaddaeus became known as Jude after early translators of the New Testament from Greek into English sought to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot and subsequently abbreviated his forename. Most versions of the New Testament in languages other than English and French refer to Judas and Jude by the same name. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Apostle \nSacrifice thank offerings to God\, fulfill your vows to the Most High\, and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you\, and you will honor me. \nPs 50:14–15
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* The Virgin Mary in Old Age – Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This beautiful and touching artwork by James Tissot shows the Virgin Mary kneeling on Mount Calvary and praying. She looks down at the hole that held the Cross of her Son\, Jesus Christ. The holy women kneel behind\, their hands raised to their faces in grief. \nWoman\, Behold Your Son (John 19:26-27) \nNear the cross of Jesus stood his mother\, his mother’s sister\, Mary the wife of Clopas\, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there\, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby\, he said to his mother\, ‘Dear woman\, here is your son\,’ 27 and to the disciple\, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on\, this disciple took her into his home.” (John 19:25-27) \nJesus’ Mother at the Foot of the Cross \nOf the four gospel writers\, John is the only one who records Mary’s presence at the cross. But it would be expected that Jesus’ mother be in Jerusalem at Passover —  after all\, we read\, “Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover” (Luke 2:41). Probably after Joseph’s death —  presumed to have taken place before Jesus began his ministry —  Mary would come up to Jerusalem for the Feast with friends and relatives. \nNow her son is in trouble —  arrested\, tried\, condemned\, and now dying. Surely\, Mary’s place is close to her son. And so Simeon’s prophecy given at Jesus’ dedication comes to pass: \n“And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” (Luke 2:35b) \nShe is near him now\, but her heart is broken. She is consoled by friends. \nThe Identity of the Other Women \nJust who are these friends? Verse 25 seems to include Mary plus three other women.16 These are probably the same women who appear in the Synoptic Gospels. Matthew explains: “Many women were there\, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs” (Matthew 27:55; Luke 8:3). \nIn addition to Mary\, the women at the cross seem to be: \nMary Magdalene is mentioned consistently in all three gospels. \n\n\n\nThis detail shows a remarkable view of St. John (left)\, Mary Magdalene (center bottom)\, and St. Mary with the other women at the cross (center)\, from James J. Tissot\, “What Our Savior Saw from the Cross” (1886-1894)\, opaque watercolor on gray wove paper\, 24.9 x 23 cm\, Brooklyn Museum\, New York. Full image. \n  \n \n\n\n\nMary (the wife) of Clopas seems to correspond easily to “Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses (Joseph)” (Mark 15:40; Matthew 27:56). She is probably “the other Mary” who was with Mary Magdalene at the tomb Friday night and on Sunday morning (Matthew 27:61; 28:1).17 \nThe third woman\, Jesus’ mother’s sister\, may well be Salome\, who is the mother of James and John\, the sons of Zebedee.18 This would make James and John to be Jesus’ cousins. It would make sense. James and John are part of Jesus’ inner circle with Peter. It also explains why their mother might presume to ask that her sons sit on Jesus’ right and left in his kingdom (Matthew 20:20-21). She had been rebuked by Jesus on that occasion\, but here she is at the foot of the cross consoling Mary\, Jesus’ mother\, her sister. \nThe Disciple Whom Jesus Loved \nNow the story unfolds further. \n“26 When Jesus saw his mother there\, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby\, he said to his mother\, ‘Dear woman\, here is your son\,’ 27 and to the disciple\, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on\, this disciple took her into his home.” (John 19:26-27) \nWho is this “disciple whom he loved”? We see this phrase only four other times —  and only in John’s Gospel.19 This disciple is clearly identified as the author of the Gospel of John (John 21:24). Church tradition20 identifies this disciple with St. John the Apostle. Perhaps the Gospel writer doesn’t identify himself by name out of modesty. \nThis disciple whom Jesus loved\, St. John\, one of three disciples closest to him\, is the only male disciple who is at the foot of the cross as Jesus is dying. The others are too afraid to be so closely identified with a man condemned by the Romans\, as well as by the leaders of their own people (Mark 14:50; Luke 23:49). But John is nearby —  perhaps to accompany his own mother (Mary’s sister). \n\n\n\nJames J. Tissot\, “Sabat Mater (Woman Behold your Son)” (1886-1894)\, opaque watercolor\, Brooklyn Museum. Larger image.\n\n\n\nWoman\, Here Is Your Son \n“26b He said to his mother\, ‘Dear woman\, here is your son\,’ 27 and to the disciple\, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on\, this disciple took her into his home.” (John 19:26b-27) \nJesus’ Third Word from the cross to this small band of faithful friends huddled below is fascinating for all it implies. \nFirst\, Jesus addresses his mother not as “Mother\,” but as “woman\,” translated appropriately as “dear woman” by the NIV. We might sense a coldness in the term as used in our culture\, but in Jesus’ culture\, it was perfectly proper for a man to address a woman this way —  but still strange for a son to a mother.21 The reason for this more formal address is probably that Jesus intends his words to be understood as a formal testamentary disposition under Jewish family law.22 \nAs Mary’s firstborn\, Jesus is legally responsible for her welfare\, to ensure that she has a place to live and food to eat during her widowhood. Jesus entrusts his mother to John’s care instead and John takes this commission seriously: \nThe Love of a Son for His Mother \nSome see Jesus’ Third Word as more than an act of filial devotion\, but rather the Beloved Disciple (the Ideal Disciple) now joined to Mary (the new Eve). They picture Mary as being appointed as mother\, not only of the Beloved Disciple\, but of all disciples\, hence of the Church.24 \nHowever\, the text explains its meaning rather clearly: “From that time on\, this disciple took her into his home” (John 19:27b). So the point of this verse is not that Mary is being appointed Mother of the Church. Rather\, Jesus is clearly appointing John as responsible in his stead to care for his mother in her widowhood. \nWhat Does This Word from the Cross Teach Us? \nAs I reflect on this Third Word from the Cross\, I begin to see something about the extent of Jesus’ love. Here he is dying in agony\, gasping for each breath. He sees his mother\, the one who comforted him through all of childhood’s cuts and bruises\, teases and taunts. When he was a boy he would run home to mother and instantly be wrapped in her protective\, comforting mother-love. \nBut now as he sees her at the foot of the cross\, heartbroken\, weeping\, inconsolable\, his heart goes out to her. Rather than being consumed by an understandable concern for his own welfare\, he is touched by hers. \nShe is a widow —  soon to be a widow who will be known as mother to that crucified criminal\, Jesus. Life will not be easy for her. The other children in the family (whether hers or Joseph’s we just don’t know) don’t believe in him as she does (John 7:3-5). Though it might eventually be judged their legal duty to care for her\, perhaps Jesus senses that such care would be less than what she deserves.25 \nWhat Are We to Learn from the Third Word? \nWhat are we as Jesus’ disciples to learn from this Word from the cross? \n\n Love for our Family\n\nFirst\, we must love our parents —  no matter what. Sometimes our parents misunderstand us or disapprove of decisions we make. Sometimes they can hurt us grievously. I can remember my dad’s disapproval of me becoming a pastor in a “denominational” church and the pain I felt from that rejection. But I must love my dad. \nJesus\, too\, had felt the hurt of misunderstanding from his family —  even his mother. It’s apparent that during part of his ministry\, at least\, his family didn’t understand him. \n\nAt the Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11)\, Mary pushed Jesus to change the water into wine\, even though he tells her\, “My time has not yet come.”\n�His family thought\, “He is out of his mind\,” and went to take charge of him (Mark 3:21\, 31-35) —  his brothers apparently along with Mary.\n“Even his own brothers did not believe in him.” (John 7:5)\n\nBut whether they understand or even approve of us —  whether we can even trust them at this point in our lives —  we are told: “Honor your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12). Christ-powered love can help heal the hurts from our families. We must love our parents. \n\n Responsibility for our Family\n\nSecond\, we are responsible for family obligations. Jesus was clear that his disciples must put commitment to him above family relationships —  sometimes even using hyperbole to drive this point home.26 Our obedience to Christ must become primary and obedience to parents must become secondary. \nHaving said that\, just because we are Christians doesn’t mean that we are absolved of family obligations. The Apostle Paul is adamant: \n“If anyone does not provide for his relatives\, and especially for his immediate family\, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” (1 Timothy 5:8) \nWhen we are immature believers\, sometimes we take rash actions towards our families that in retrospect weren’t filled with Christ’s love. Our priorities\, however\, are clear: (1) God himself\, (2) our families\, (3) our work for God. \nHow do we reconcile our primary commitment to Jesus with responsibility for our families? Sometimes with great difficulty. But to put Christ first doesn’t mean that we are free to neglect our other priorities —  it means only that we get our priorities in proper relation to each other. God will give us wisdom to work this out. \nHere at the end of his life\, we see in Jesus the tender love of a son for his mother —  a mother who had sometimes misunderstood him. As he dies he settles his earthly obligations as best he can\, we hear him say\, “Dear woman\, here is your son … Here is your mother” (John 19:26-27). \nPrayer \nFather\, we see Jesus’ example of love and responsibility. As wonderful and loving as family relationships can be\, they are often complex and sometimes hurtful. We ask you to help us sort them out. Show us how to love you at the same time we love our family members. Give us the divine wisdom that we need so that we can love as Jesus loves. In His name\, we pray. Amen. \nQuestion for Personal Meditation \n\n\n\nQ3. (John 19:26-27) Why does Jesus make St. John responsible for his mother Mary? What does this tell us about Jesus? How should we apply this in our own lives?\n\n\n\n  \nQuestions for Group Discussion \n\nWhat do you think Mary is feeling while she is waiting at the cross for Jesus to die? What kinds of thoughts are going through her mind? (John 19:29-27)\nWhy\, of all the disciples\, do you think John is at the cross?\nWhy didn’t Jesus make his brothers responsible for Mary? Why John?\nWhat does this Third Word teach us about Jesus?\nWhat are the implications of Jesus’ Third Word for our own personal family relationships?\n\nBlessed are those who have learned to acclaim you\, who walk in the light of your presence\, Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.  \nPs 89:15–16 \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Sermon of the Beatitudes – Tissot
DESCRIPTION:Our Lord stands on a hill\, preaching the Eight Beatitudes to the multitude\, in this colorful artwork by James Tissot. \nThe Sermon of the Beatitudes-James Tissot \nJesus now has a significant following\, demonstrated visually by the crowd stretching along narrow paths from the distant shores of a lake all the way to the peak of the mountain; he preaches with hands upraised to a group of men\, women\, and children. In the episode illustrated here\, often called the Sermon on the Mount\, Jesus enunciates many of the key moral and ethical tenets of his ministry. In the beatitudes\, he identifies the blessed among the community— including the meek\, the righteous\, the peacemakers\, and the persecuted—and offers consolation to those who suffer\, indicating that they will receive their reward in the kingdom of heaven. \nMt 5:1-12 \nThe Beatitudes* \nThe Sermon on the Mount. \n1* When he saw the crowds\,* he went up the mountain\, and after he had sat down\, his disciples came to him. \n2He began to teach them\, saying: \n3“Blessed are the poor in spirit\,* \nfor theirs is the kingdom of heaven.a \n4* Blessed are they who mourn\,b \nfor they will be comforted. \n5* Blessed are the meek\,c \nfor they will inherit the land. \n6Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness\,* \nfor they will be satisfied. \n7Blessed are the merciful\, \nfor they will be shown mercy.d \n8* Blessed are the clean of heart\,e \nfor they will see God. \n9Blessed are the peacemakers\, \nfor they will be called children of God. \n10Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness\,* \nfor theirs is the kingdom of heaven.f \n11Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.g \n12* Rejoice and be glad\, for your reward will be great in heaven.h Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5 \nPraise the Lord\, all you nations; extol him\, all you peoples. For great is his love toward us\, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. \nPs 117 \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* The Resurrection of Lazarus — Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by James Tissot depicts Jesus entering the cave in which Lazarus is buried\, calling the man from the dead. Martha and Mary\, the sisters of Lazarus\, sit in the tomb\, staring with wide eyes at their brother emerging from the ground\, still wrapped in his white burial cloths. Other Jews stare at the risen Lazarus from behind Christ. This miracle of Jesus is recounted in John 11:41-45. \n The Resurrection of Lazarus-James Tissot \nFollowing the death of his friend Lazarus\, Jesus goes to Bethany to comfort Martha and Mary Magdalene for a loss that he also felt keenly. Both women lament that Jesus was absent when Lazarus took ill\, knowing that he would have prevented the death with his healing powers. Affected by the loss\, Jesus weeps. \nLed to the darkened tomb of Lazarus\, Jesus commands the removal of the stone covering the opening and\, after a prayer to God\, resurrects the dead man before witnesses who gasp in astonishment. \nJn 11:41-44 \nThe Raising of Lazarus.* \n 41So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said\, “Father\,* I thank you for hearing me. \n42I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this\, that they may believe that you sent me.”n \n43And when he had said this\, he cried out in a loud voice\,* “Lazarus\, come out!” \n44The dead man came out\, tied hand and foot with burial bands\, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them\, “Untie him and let him go.” \nLet those who fear the Lord say: “His love endures forever.” When hard pressed\, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?   \nPs 118:4–6 \n 
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SUMMARY:All Saints Day
DESCRIPTION:What is All Saints Day?\nAll Saints Day honors the saints in Heaven – those who have been recognized by the Church as saints\, as well as those who have not been canonized. The feast was established in Rome as a result of the emperor’s giving of the Pantheon (the temple to all the gods) to the Church and its dedication to St. Mary and All the Martyrs. This followed the principle\, “Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!” (Christ conquers\, Christ reigns\, Christ commands). Thus\, throughout the Mediterranean many churches have been built over pagan sites\, sanctifying them for Christ. The Church celebrates All Saints Day on November 1. \n*Painted by Fra Angelico\, this above artwork (Christ Glorified in Heaven – Angelico) shows saints in Heaven\, as well as angels\, who are playing musical instruments. All glorify the Risen Christ. This image is an altar piece\, having two accompanying pieces that flank it\, which depict more figures of the Church Triumphant.\nhttps://restoredtraditions.com/products/christ-glorified-heaven-angelico \nLives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 1.—ALL-SAINTS. \nTHE Church pays\, day by day\, a special veneration to some one of the holy men and women who have helped to establish it by their blood\, develop it by their labors\, or edify it by their virtues. But\, in addition to those whom the Church honors by special designation\, or has inscribed in her calendar\, how many martyrs are there whose names are not recorded! How many humble virgins and holy penitents! How many just and holy anchorites or young children snatched away in their innocence! How many Christians who have died in grace\, whose merits are known only to God\, and who are themselves known only in heaven! Now should we forget those who remember us in their intercessions? Besides\, are they not our brethren\, our ancestors\, friends\, and fellow-Christians\, with whom we have lived in daily companionship—in other words\, our own family? Yea\, it is one family; and our place is marked out in this home of eternal light and eternal love. \nAll Saints Solemnity [Holyday of Obligation] Rv 7:2-4\, 9-14/1 Jn 3:1-3/Mt 5:1-12a (667) Pss Prop. \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/all-saints-day-401\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ALL SAINTS DAY \n**This below image (Virgin Mary with Apostles & Other Saints – Angelico) of the Church Triumphant shows the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Apostles and other prominent saints behind her. This artwork is one of three similar panels painted by Fra Angelico. \nhttps://restoredtraditions.com/products/virgin-mary-with-apostles-other-saints-heaven-fra-angelico \n***This below artwork (The Forerunners of Christ With Saints and Martyrs – Angelico)\, depicting the Church Triumphant\, is one of three parts of an altarpiece painted by Fra Angelico. In this section\, which is the lower part of the center panel of the altarpiece\, three rows of Old Testament and New Testament saints are adoring the risen and glorified Christ\, Who is depicted on the upper part of the same panel. The left side of the altarpiece has the Virgin Mary\, apostles\, and other saints depicted on it. \nhttps://restoredtraditions.com/products/forerunners-christ-with-communion-saints-martyrs-in-heaven-fra-angelico \n****All Saints’ Day\, also known as All Hallows’ Day\, the Feast of All Saints\, the Feast of All Hallows\, the Solemnity of All Saints\, and Hallowmas\, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the church\, whether they are known or unknown. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day \n \nLet the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms\, hymns\, and songs from the Spirit\, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.   \nCol 3:16
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SUMMARY:Saint Martin de Porres
DESCRIPTION:Saint Martin de Porres\, Religious Phil 3:3-8a/Lk 15:1-10 (488). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/martin-de-porres-688\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. MARTIN DE PORRES \n*Martín de Porres Velázquez OP (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people\, barbers\, innkeepers\, public health workers\, and all those seeking racial harmony. \nHe was noted for his work on behalf of the poor\, establishing an orphanage and a children’s hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle\, which included fasting and abstaining from meat. Among the many miracles attributed to him were those of levitation\, bilocation\, miraculous knowledge\, instantaneous cures\, and an ability to communicate with animals. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Porres \nThis is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.   \n1 JOHN 1:5
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SUMMARY:Saint Charles Borromeo
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 4.—ST. CHARLES BORROMEO. \nABOUT fifty years after the Protestant heresy had broken out\, Our Lord raised up a mere youth to renew the face of His Church. In 1560 Charles Borromeo\, then twenty-two years of age\, was created cardinal\, and by the side of his uncle\, Pius IV.\, administered the affairs of the Holy See. His first care was the direction of the Council of Trent. He urged forward its sessions\, guided its deliberations by continual correspondence from Rome\, and by his firmness carried it to its conclusion. Then he entered upon a still more arduous work—the execution of its decrees. As Archbishop of Milan he enforced their observance\, and thoroughly restored the discipline of his see. He founded schools for the poor\, seminaries for the clerics\, and by his community of Oblates trained his priests to perfection. Inflexible in maintaining discipline\, to his flock he was a most tender father. He would sit by the roadside to teach a poor man the Pater and Ave\, and would enter hovels the stench of which drove his attendants from the door. During the great plague he refused to leave Milan\, and was ever by the sick and dying\, and sold even his bed for their support. So he lived and so he died\, a faithful image of the Good Shepherd\, up to his last hour giving his life for his sheep. \nReflection.—Daily resolutions to fulfil\, at all cost\, every duty demanded by God\, is the lesson taught by St. Charles; and a lesson we must learn if we would overcome our corrupt nature and reform our lives. \nSaint Charles Borromeo\, Bishop white Memorial Phil 3:17—4:1/Lk 16:1-8 (489). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/charles-borromeo-524\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. CHARLES BORROMEO \n*St. Charles Borromeo – Lanfranco \nThis is a portrait of Saint Charles Borromeo\, the great sixteenth-century Archbishop\, Cardinal\, and Reformer of the Church and City of Milan. Artwork by Lanfranco. \n**Charles Borromeo (Italian: Carlo Borromeo; Latin: Carolus Borromeus; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation together with Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church\, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. He is honoured as a saint by the Catholic Church\, with a feast day on 4 November. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo \nBut you have come to Mount Zion\, to the city of the living God\, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly\, to the church of the firstborn\, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God\, the Judge of all\, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect\, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant.  \nHeb 12:22–24A
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Paradise Before the Fall of Adam and Eve – Brueghel
DESCRIPTION:About The Artist \nJan Bruegel the Elder (1568-1625) was the second son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569) and received his training from his maternal grandmother\, Mayken Verhulst\, and Pieter Goetkindt (died 1583) because of the early death of his father. In the 1590s\, he travelled to Italy where he met his lifetime patron\, Cardinal Federico Borromeo (1568-1631)\, archbishop of Milan and returned to Antwerp shortly before 1597\, where he became a member of the Guild of St Luke. In 1606\, Jan Bruegel the Elder became court painter to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella\, the regents in the southern Netherlands and travelled in Holland with friends Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)\, Heindrick van Balen (1575-1632) and visited Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) in Haarlem. Among his pupils were his son\, Jan Bruegel the Younger (1601-1678) who imitated his father’s work and Daniel Seghers (1590-1661). \nThis painting is a good example of Jan Bruegel the Elder’s landscape tradition that shows in colorful landscapes\, a profusion of animals and figures including rich and varied vegetation. The highly detailed depiction of the animals and other figures witnesses his interest in nature and reveals his encyclopedic conception of the world. This composition was very popular and was extensively copied by Jan Bruegel the Elder’s himself but also by close followers among whom could be his own son\, Jan Bruegel the Younger. The representation of paradise as a pictorial theme was extensively exploited by the artist who produced many versions of it. \nAbout The Artist \nJan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger was a Flemish Baroque painter\, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder. \nBrueghel was born and died in the 17th century in Antwerp. He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style. Along with his brother Ambrosius\, he produced landscapes\, allegorical scenes and other works of meticulous detail. Brueghel also copied works by his father and sold them with his father’s signature. His work is distinguishable from that of his parent by being less well executed and lighter. \nJan the Younger was traveling in Italy when his father died of cholera\, and swiftly returned to take control of the Antwerp studio. After the death of his father he changed his signature from ‘Brueghel’ to ‘Breughel’. The next year in 1626 he married Anna-Maria Janssens\, daughter of Abraham Janssens. He soon established himself and was made dean of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1630. That same year he was commissioned by the French court to paint Adam Cycle. In the following years\, he also produced paintings for the Austrian court\, and worked independently in Paris\, before returning to Antwerp in 1657. He collaborated with a number of prominent artists including Rubens\, Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632)\, Adriaen Stalbemt (1580–1682)\, Lucas Van Uden (1596–1672)\, his brother-in-law David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) and his father-in-law Abraham Janssens. \nThe eyes of the Lord are on those who love him\, a mighty shield and strong support\, a shelter from scorching wind and a shade from noonday sun\, a guard against stumbling and a help against falling.   \nECCLESIASTICUS 34:19\, NRSV
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* The Inspiration of St. Matthew – Caravaggio
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by Caravaggio shows the Evangelist and Apostle Matthew writing his Gospel under divine inspiration\, given him by an angel. \nTHE INSPIRATION OF SAINT MATTHEW is Caravaggio’s second version of the subject\, was the last in the series\, although it is over the high altar and therefore central in location as well as meaning. Unlike the lateral canvases\, it is visible from all points in the chapel\, a constant reminder of the importance of the Gospel. The angelic messenger is evidently dictating to the saint\, ticking off points on the fingers of his left hand. The reading of the text of the Gospel demonstrates that he has reached the second part of the introduction\, that is\, Christ’s genealogy and hence His continuity with the past. \nSaint Matthew appears to have been portrayed from the same model as in the Martyrdom\, and\, appropriately enough\, to be older than he was in the Calling. Despite his dignity\, his noble\, bearded face and bald head\, and his robes reminiscent of an ancient philosopher’s\, he is in a very unsettled pose\, not having had time to sit down\, and with the bench under his knee tipping a little whimsically over the edge of a ledge. Obviously he is writing on the inspiration of the moment\, coached by the angel. His role as a divine instrument is also implied by his name\, which was believed to derive from the words “manus” (hand) and “theos” (god). \nCardinal Contarelli originally intended that the two figures be placed side by side\, as they were in the first version. By changing this scheme for the traditional arrangement of the angel’s flying in\, Caravaggio emphasized the divinity of Matthew’s inspiration and thus the authority of his Gospel. No doubt Caravaggio referred to some of the numerous sixteenth-century prototypes for the composition. Perhaps he had access to Taddeo Zuccaro’s drawing of The Flight to Egypt\, where the poses and some of the gestures of Joseph and the angel\, and the relation between them\, are similar. Or he may have been influenced by one of the many Venetian prototypes\, of which the closest seems to be the reversed composition of The Inspiration of Saint John the Evangelist that Francesco Bassano had painted a few years earlier. \nThe ledge beneath the bench precisely defines the saint’s spatial position in relation to the altar and to the whole chapel. But the placement of the angel is ambiguous. He must be not only above Matthew but also in front of him\, judging from the saint’s direction of regard. But in the whole context he is difficult to place\, as if\, like the blank\, amorphous background\, he were out of time and place. None-theless\, he is fully corporeal and probably was inspired by actors in the contemporary theater\, who were flown across the stage on wires. Of the three paintings in the chapel\, this shows the most use of the grooves that are incised in some of Caravaggio’s paintings. Perhaps Caravaggio had been experimenting with this method of preparation in the two lateral canvases and perfected it only in this\, the last. The contours of the painted image as we now see it do not correspond exactly with these grooves\, so it is possible that Caravaggio first conceived of the bodies undraped\, incised these contours in the wet priming\, and then painted the drapery over them as if he were actually clothing nudes. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calling_of_St_Matthew \nOn this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples\, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.   \nIs 25:7–8 \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Jesus & the Children – Bloch
DESCRIPTION:This artwork\, by C. Bloch\, shows Christ blessing children and reproaching His apostles for attempting to keep the children from Him. This event is recounted in Mark 10: 13-14: “And they brought to him young children\, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them. Whom when Jesus saw\, he was much displeased\, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me\, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.” \nMk 10:13-16 \nBlessing of the Children. \n13f And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them\, but the disciples rebuked them.g \n14When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them\, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them\, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. \n15Amen\, I say to you\, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child* will not enter it.”h \n16Then he embraced them and blessed them\, placing his hands on them. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/10 \nLET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME UNTO ME \nThis painting illustrates a story from the Savior’s life.  Jesus’ followers brought their children to see Him\, and “his disciples rebuked those that brought them.  But when Jesus saw it\, he was much displeased\, and said unto them\, Suffer the little children to come unto me\, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.   Verily I say unto you\, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child\, he shall not enter therein.  And he took them up in his arms\, put his hands upon them\, and blessed them.” \nIn this painting\, Bloch depicts the Savior’s disciples holding the young children back to prevent them from bothering Jesus.  James E. Talmage suggests that the disciples’ viewpoint was influenced by their society\, which believed that women and children occupied an inferior position in society.  The children who have come to see Jesus have trustful\, peaceful expressions on their face\, and the Savior holds the hand of one child while His arm is around another.  Other onlookers gather to see what the Savior will do. \n“Above the Savior’s head is a richly woven fabric with long tassels.  From the fifteenth century on\, this “cloth of honor” appeared in artistic representations of important and powerful figures.  It was most often hung in a long panel behind the person to represent his nobility or high rank.  In this image\, the cloth has been lifted up\, perhaps as a sign of Christ’s openness as well as His nobility.” \nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nConsider the generations of old and see: has anyone trusted in the Lord and been disappointed? Or has anyone persevered in the fear of the Lord and been forsaken? Or has anyone called upon him and been neglected? For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of distress. \nEccl 2:10–11\, NRSV \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Jesus & the Small Child – Bloch
DESCRIPTION:Christ instructs us about the Kingdom of Heaven by pointing to a child\, as shown in this artwork by C. Bloch.  \nMt 19:13-15 \nBlessing of the Children.* \n13f Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them\, \n14g but Jesus said\, “Let the children come to me\, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” \n15After he placed his hands on them\, he went away. \nLk 18:15-17 \nSaying on Children and the Kingdom. \n15* People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them\,* and when the disciples saw this\, they rebuked them.g \n16Jesus\, however\, called the children to himself and said\, “Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. \n17Amen\, I say to you\, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.”h \nChrist and the Young Child-Carl Heinrich Bloch\, 1873 \n“Amen I say unto you\, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.” – Luke 18:17 \nUpon entering Sankt Nikolai Kirke\, the magnificent figure of Christ and the shy young boy presents an image of pure majesty. Viewers cannot help but observe the loving\, protective relationship as Christ affectionately puts His hand on the child’s cheek and gestures toward him. Looking out at the viewer\, Christ seems to issue an invitation to “become as a little child.” \nThe young boy stands close to the Savior and holds a palm frond in his clenched hand. Originally a symbol of military victory\, early Christians used the palm frond to represent Christ’s victory over death. It recalls the palm branches raised in hosanna shouts greeting the Savior upon His last entrance into Jerusalem. \nMORE ABOUT BLOCH \nCarl Bloch was an academic Danish painter who is best known for his paintings depicting the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. \nHe received his artistic training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Later\, while living in Rome for several years\, Bloch studied paintings by the great Italian masters. \nWhen he returned to Copenhagen\, Bloch quickly established a reputation as a religious painter. This led to major commissions for paintings in churches and chapels of Denmark and Sweden. \nHis extensive body of work includes over 250 paintings and 78 etchings. Still\, Bloch considered his religious works to be his most valuable contributions. His productive career ended early when he died of cancer at the age of only fifty-five. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_of_Jesus_about_little_children \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nVery truly I tell you\, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. \nJn 5:24
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SUMMARY:The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
DESCRIPTION:The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Feast Ez 47:1-2\, 8-9\, 12/1 Cor 3:9c-11\, 16-17/Jn 2:13-22 (671) Pss Prop. \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/dedication-of-the-lateran-basilica-in-rome-416\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA IN ROME \nWhat are the four major churches in Rome?\n \nArchbasilica of St. John Lateran bottom right (see Nov 9)\, St. Peter’s Basilica top left (see Nov 18)\, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls top right (see Nov 18)\, and Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore bottom left (see Aug 5) are the only four Major Basilicas\, all other churches called “Basilica” are Minor Basilicas. \n\nBasilica of St John Lateran\, Rome \nBasilica of St John Lateran – HD footage\, information and facts on Basilica of St John Lateran. This is the oldest of Rome’s four major basilicas and the official seat of the Pope. It is known as “Mother church of the whole world” amongst Catholics. \n*The Archbasilica Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in the Lateran (Italian: Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e dei Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano)\, also known as the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John [in] Lateran\, Saint John Lateran\, or the Lateran Basilica\, is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome in the city of Rome\, and serves as the seat of the bishop of Rome\, the pope. The archbasilica lies outside of Vatican City proper\, which is located approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the northwest. Nevertheless\, as properties of the Holy See\, the archbasilica and its adjoining edifices enjoy an extraterritorial status from Italy\, pursuant to the terms of the Lateran Treaty of 1929. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbasilica_of_Saint_John_Lateran#Feast_of_the_Dedication_ \nBut in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth\, where righteousness dwells.   \n2 Pt 3:13
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SUMMARY:Saint Leo the Great
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—ST. LEO THE GREAT. \nLEO was born at Rome. He embraced the sacred ministry\, was made archdeacon of the Roman Church by St. Celestine\, and under him and Sixtus III. had a large share in governing the Church. On the death of Sixtus\, Leo was chosen Pope\, and consecrated on St. Michael’s day\, 440\, amid great joy. It was a time of terrible trial. Vandals and Huns were wasting the provinces of the empire\, and Nestorians\, Pelagians\, and other heretics wrought more grievous havoc among souls. Whilst Leo’s zeal made head against these perils\, there arose the new heresy of Eutyches\, who confounded the two natures of Christ. At once the vigilant pastor proclaimed the true doctrine of the Incarnation in his famous “tome;” but fostered by the Byzantine court\, the heresy gained a strong hold amongst the Eastern monks and bishops. After three years of unceasing toil\, Leo brought about its solemn condemnation by the Council of Chalcedon\, the Fathers all signing his tome\, and exclaiming\, “Peter hath spoken by Leo.” Soon after\, Attila with his Huns broke into Italy\, and marched through its burning cities upon Rome. Leo went out boldly to meet him\, and prevailed on him to turn back. Astonished to see the terrible Attila\, the “Scourge of God\,” fresh from the sack of Aquileia\, Milan\, Pavia\, with the rich prize of Rome within his grasp\, turn his great host back to the Danube at the Saint’s word\, his chiefs asked him why he had acted so strangely. He answered that he saw two venerable personages\, supposed to be Sts. Peter and Paul\, standing behind Leo\, and impressed by this vision he withdrew. If the perils of the Church are as great now as in St. Leo’s day\, St. Peter’s solicitude is not less. Two years later the city fell a prey to the Vandals; but even then Leo saved it from destruction. He died A. D. 461\, having ruled the Church twenty years. \nReflection.—Leo loved to ascribe all the fruits of his unsparing labors to the glorious chief of the apostles\, who\, he often declared\, lives and governs in his successors. \nSaint Leo the Great\, Pope and Doctor of the Church white Memorial Phlm 7-20/Lk 17:20-25 (494). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/leo-the-great-669\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. LEO THE GREAT \n*This is a  Spanish seventeenth-century portrait of Leo I\, crowned with papal tiara\, holding cross and key\, and gazing intently while giving his blessing. The fifth-century papacy of Leo the Great was one of the most important\, promoting the dignity of the papacy and political peace. Pope Leo used firm and benevolent policy to negotiate cooperation between the Western and Eastern parts of the Roman Empire\, as well as with Huns and Vandals\, notably going out to meet Attila as the Hun marched toward Rome. Because of his remarkable greatness at upholding the Faith in word and deed\, he was made a Doctor of the Church in 1754. Artwork by F. Herrera. \n**Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461)\, also known as Leo the Great\, was bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death. Pope Benedict XVI said that Leo’s papacy “was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church’s history.” \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I \n“I am the Alpha and the Omega\,” says the Lord God\, “who is\, and who was\, and who is to come\, the Almighty.”   \nRv 1:8
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SUMMARY:Saint Martin of Tours
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 11.—ST. MARTIN OF TOURS. \nWHEN a mere boy\, Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents’ wish; and at fifteen was therefore seized by his father\, a pagan soldier\, and enrolled in the army. One winter’s day\, when stationed at Amiens\, he met a beggar almost naked and frozen with cold. Having no money\, he cut his cloak in two and gave him the half. That night he saw Our Lord clothed in the half cloak\, and heard Him say to the angels: “Martin\, yet a catechumen\, hath wrapped Me in this garment.” This decided him to be baptized\, and shortly after he left the army. He succeeded in converting his mother; but\, being driven from his home by the Arians\, he took shelter with St. Hilary\, and founded near Poitiers the first monastery in France. In 372 he was made Bishop of Tours. His flock\, though Christian in name\, was still pagan in heart. Unarmed and attended only by his monks\, Martin destroyed the heathen temples and groves\, and completed by his preaching and miracles the conversion of the people\, whence he is known as the Apostle of Gaul. His last eleven years were spent in humble toil to atone for his faults\, while God made manifest by miracles the purity of his soul. \nReflection.—It was for Christ crucified that St. Martin worked. Are you working for the same Lord? \nSaint Martin of Tours\, Bishop Memorial 2 Jn 4-9/Lk 17:26-37 (495) Pss Prop. \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/martin-of-tours-689\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. MARTIN OF TOURS \n*St. Martin – Greco. \nSaint Martin of Tours\, the holy soldier\, gives his cloak to a poor naked man on the side of the road. Artwork by El Greco. \n**Martin of Tours (Latin: Sanctus Martinus Turonensis; 316/336 – 8 November 397)\, also known as Martin the Merciful\, was the third bishop of Tours.[a] He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France\, heralded as the patron saint of the Third Republic\, and is patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe. A native of Pannonia (in central Europe)\, he converted to Christianity at a young age. He served in the Roman cavalry in Gaul\, but left military service at some point prior to 361\, when he became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers\, establishing the monastery at Ligugé. He was consecrated as Bishop of Caesarodunum (Tours) in 371. As bishop\, he was active in the suppression of the remnants of Gallo-Roman religion\, but he opposed the violent persecution of the Priscillianist sect of ascetics. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_of_Tours \nI am the Lord your God\, who brought you out of Egypt\, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I\, the Lord your God\, am a jealous God\, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me\, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. \nEx 20:2–6
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SUMMARY:Saint Josaphat
DESCRIPTION:Saint Josaphat\, Bishop and Martyr red Memorial 3 Jn 5-8/Lk 18:1-8 (496). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/josaphat-438\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. JOSAPHAT \n*Josaphat Kuntsevych (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a monk and archeparch (archbishop) of the Ruthenian Catholic Church\, who on 12 November 1623 was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk\, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present-day Belarus). He is “the best-known victim” of anti-Catholic violence related to implementing the Union of Brest\, and is declared a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaphat_Kuntsevych \nFor you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.  But you\, brothers\, are not in darkness\, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. \n1 Thes 5:2\,4–5
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Visitation (Mary Visiting Elizabeth) – Bloch
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. \nTHE angel Gabriel\, in the mystery of the Annunciation\, informed the Mother of God that her cousin Elizabeth had miraculously conceived\, and was then pregnant with a son who was to be the precursor of the Messiahs. \nThe Blessed Virgin out of humility concealed the wonderful dignity to which she was raised by the incarnation of the Son of God in her womb\, but\, in the transport of her holy joy and gratitude\, determined she would go to congratulate the mother of the Baptist. “Mary therefore arose\,” saith St. Luke\, “and with haste went into the hilly country into a city of Judea\, and entering into the house of Zachary\, saluted Elizabeth.” What a blessing did the presence of the God-man bring to this house\, the first which He honored in His humanity with His visit! \nBut Mary is the instrument and means by which He imparts to it His divine benediction\, to show us that she is a channel through which He delights to communicate to us His graces\, and to encourage us to ask them of Him through her intercession. \nAt the voice of the Mother of God\, but by the power and grace of her divine Son in her womb\, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost\, and the Infant in her womb conceived so great a joy as to leap and exult. \nAt the same time Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost\, and by His infused light she understood the great mystery of the Incarnation which God had wrought in Mary\, whom humility prevented from disclosing it even to a Saint\, and an intimate friend. In raptures of astonishment Elizabeth pronounced her blessed above all other women\, and cried out\, “Whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” \nMary\, hearing her own praise\, sunk the lower in the abyss of her nothingness\, and in the transport of her humility\, and melting in an ecstasy of love and gratitude\, burst into that admirable canticle\, the Magnificat. Mary stayed with her cousin almost three months\, after which she returned to Nazareth. \nReflection.—Whilst with the Church we praise God for the mercies and wonders which He wrought in this mystery\, we ought to apply ourselves to the imitation of the virtues of which Mary sets us a perfect example. From her we ought particularly to learn the lessons by which we shall sanctify our visits and conversation\, actions which are to so many Christians the sources of innumerable dangers and sins. \nIn this beautiful depiction of the Visitation by Carl Bloch\, the elderly Elizabeth stands at the top of the steps of her house\, with arms joyfully spread wide\, welcoming the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady\, with a faint halo above her head\, looks up at her cousin\, listening to the divinely inspired greeting: “Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!” (Lk. 1:42). \nLk 1:39-45 \nMary Visits Elizabeth. \n39During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah\, \n40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. \n41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting\, the infant leaped in her womb\, and Elizabeth\, filled with the holy Spirit\,s \n42cried out in a loud voice and said\, “Most blessed are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.t \n43And how does this happen to me\, that the mother of my Lord* should come to me? \n44For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears\, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. \n45Blessed are you who believed* that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”u \n“Blessed are you among women.” \nElizabeth [was] filled with the holy Spirit” (Luke 1:41). So Luke tells us in his Gospel account of the Visitation. As her cousin Mary greets her\, the elderly woman\, who is nonetheless great with child\, speaks through the power of the Spirit: Elizabeth calls Mary “the mother of my Lord” (Luke 1:43). \nFor us\, it may be routine to hear that Mary is the Mother of God. But Elizabeth would have had no way to know this when Mary appeared on her doorstep. Only the power of God could inform Elizabeth that Mary was carrying the Messiah. Elizabeth stands as a kind of prophet\, possessing supernatural knowledge through the influence of the Spirit. \nDanish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch\, in The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth(1866)\, highlighted Elizabeth’s remarkable role. Often\, we think of the wife of Zechariah as a minor character. Her son\, John the Baptist\, is hailed as the last of the great prophets\, but it seems his mother also possessed the gift of prophecy. She confirmed what the angel Gabriel told Mary when there was no earthly way to prove the promise was true. \nBloch (1834–1890) puts Elizabeth at the forefront of this scene instead of placing Mary as the focal point. Mary’s back is to us as she gazes upward toward her cousin. Elizabeth’s elevated position and front-facing display make her the center of attention. In beholding this arrangement\, the viewer stands with Mary in a kind of awe at the commanding presence of Elizabeth. \nBloch also bathed Elizabeth in light and depicted her upon the heights with arms outstretched in a dramatic gesture that calls to mind the presence of the ancient prophets. One can imagine Moses or Elijah standing upon a mountaintop with such a gesture of confidence and authority. Here Bloch uses the stone steps in place of Mount Sinai\, giving Elizabeth her lofty prominence. The Lutheran painter thereby visually assigned tremendous authority to this simple woman of the hill country. \nThis is a fascinating choice\, especially for a painting created to adorn the private King’s Oratory in the castle at Frederiksborg in Denmark. The grand project of the oratory\, to which Bloch dedicated 18 years\, traced major events from the life of Christ across 23 different panels\, including this striking Visitation scene. Did the master painter from the Royal Danish Academy of Art wish to remind the royal family that God often speaks to us through those without power or prestige in the eyes of the world? \nMary\, too\, has her place in Bloch’s depiction\, even if Elizabeth is center stage. The artist bestowed on Mary alone the sign of election and holiness: the halo. Yet in the panel of the Annunciation that hangs directly above the Visitation in the castle chapel\, Mary does not yet wear the traditional symbol of sanctity. Only after the Incarnation occurs does Bloch award Mary the halo. His arbitrary distinction between Mary’s holiness prior to the Incarnation and her holiness afterward betrays Bloch’s own religious ideology that would have lacked Catholic confidence in Mary’s immaculate conception. \nBloch does\, however\, adorn the scene with blooming lilies\, a symbol of purity placed deliberately beside the Blessed Virgin\, whose hand appears to claim them as her own. Thus\, her pregnancy is distinguished from Elizabeth’s\, for it was Mary who was both a pure virgin and the Mother of God. \nMary’s profile reveals attentive eyes and a smile that rejoices at the presence of her matronly companion. The words of the Spirit-filled Elizabeth must have offered the young virgin mother tremendous hope and consolation. Mary was not alone — someone else understood and rejoiced alongside her in her most unusual of circumstances. \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nIn the time of those kings\, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed\, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end\, but it will itself endure forever.   \nDn 2:44
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* St. Anne and Our Lady – Murillo
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—ST. ANNE. \n\nANNE was the spouse of St. Joachim\, and was chosen by God to be the mother of Mary\, His own blessed Mother on earth. They were both of the royal house of David\, and their lives were wholly occupied in prayer and good works. One thing only was wanting to their union.—they were childless\, and this was held as a bitter misfortune among the Jews.\n\nAt length\, when Anne was an aged woman\, Mary was born\, the fruit rather of grace than of nature\, and the child more of God than of man. With the birth of Mary the aged Anne began a new life: she watched her every movement with reverent tenderness\, and felt herself hourly sanctified by the presence of her immaculate child. \nBut she had vowed her daughter to God\, to God Mary had consecrated herself again\, and to Him Anne gave her back. Mary was three years old when Anne and Joachim led her up the Temple steps\, saw her pass by herself into the inner sanctuary\, and then saw her no more. Thus was Anne left childless in her lone old age\, and deprived of her purest earthly joy just when she needed it most. \nShe humbly adored the Divine Will\, and began again to watch and pray\, till God called her to unending rest with the Father and the Spouse of Mary in the home of Mary’s Child. \nReflection.—St. Anne is glorious among the Saints\, not only as the mother of Mary\, but because she gave Mary to God. Learn from her to reverence a divine vocation as the highest privilege\, and to sacrifice every natural tie\, however holy\, at the call of God. \nSaint Anne\, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary\, teaches her young daughter how to read. Cherubs descend from Heaven to place a crown of flowers on Mary’s head. Artwork by E. Murillo. \nSt. Anne & Young Virgin Mary Picture \nSometimes called “St. Anne Teaching the Child Mary” or “St. Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read” or “The Education of the Virgin\,” this image by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was painted sometime around 1665 and has become one of the most beloved images of St. Anne and Mary. It honors St. Anne\, Patron Saint of Grandmothers and Mothers\, and helps us see with even more tenderness the childhood of the Blessed Virgin. \nThe artwork by Bartolome Esteban Murillo features the image of St. Anne and young Mary. An atmosphere of grace and refinement bathes the sweet and pleasant face of Saint Anne and the bright face of Mary. Plump\, bright cherubs flutter above the young Mary’s head. The artist lets us sense the young Virgin’s perplexity at the reading of the text of Isaias where it is written: “Behold a virgin shall conceive\, and bear a son\, and his name shall be called Emmanuel”. Her mother answers her with gentle kindliness that “to God nothing is impossible”. \nCharlemagne And The Relics Of Saint Anne \nFebruary 1\, 2020 Sr. Catherine Goddard Clark \nThe following will no doubt be taken by some as a Baroque — or worse\, Romantic — example of an unenlightened and backward Catholic fascination with legend. So be it. What the critics who generally proffer these skepticisms have given us in exchange for saintly “legend” is so barren that we find ourselves\, when reading their banalities\, craving “the old time religion” they find so maudlin. \nA day will come when it will truly be said of these critics — and for all the world to see — that “They were wrong about evolution\, wrong about the inerrancy of Scripture\, wrong about Saint Philomena\, wrong about the Shroud of Turin\, and wrong about just about everything else they pontificated on with such certitude.” Meanwhile\, let’s enjoy a healthy dose of well written\, supernatural Catholic wonderment\, courtesy of Saint Anne and Sister Catherine. — Webmaster (feast of St. Anne: July 26\, 2008) \nFourteen years after Our Lord’s death\, Saint Mary Magdalen\, Saint Martha\, Saint Lazarus\, and the others of the little band of Christians who were piled into a boat without sails or oars and pushed out to sea to perish — in the persecution of the Christians by the Jews of Jerusalem — were careful to carry with them the tenderly loved body of Our Lady’s mother. \nThey feared lest it be profaned in the destruction\, which Jesus had told them was to come upon Jerusalem. When\, by the power of God\, their boat sur­vived and finally drifted to the shores of France\, the little company of saints buried Saint Anne’s body in a cave\, in a place called Apt\, in the south of France. The church\, which was later built over the spot\, fell into decay because of wars and religious persecutions\, and as the centuries passed\, the place of Saint Anne’s tomb was forgotten. \nThe long years of peace\, which Charlemagne’s wise rule gave to southern France\, enabled the people to build a magnificent new church on the site of the old chapel at Apt. Extraordinary and painstaking labor went into the building of the great structure\, and when the day of its consecration arrived [Easter Sunday\, 792 A.D.]\, the beloved Charlemagne\, little suspecting what was in store for him\, declared himself happy indeed to have jour­neyed so many miles to be present for the holy occasion. At the most solemn part of the ceremonies\, a boy of fourteen\, blind\, deaf and dumb from birth — and usually quiet and impassive — to the amaze­ment of those who knew him\, completely distracted the at­tention of the entire congrega­tion by becoming suddenly tremendously excited. He rose from his seat\, walked up the aisle to the altar steps\, and to the consternation of the whole church\, struck his stick re­soundingly again and again upon a single step. \nHis embarrassed family tried to lead him out\, but he would not budge. He contin­ued frantically to pound the step\, straining with his poor muted senses to impart a knowledge sealed hopelessly within him. The eyes of the people turned upon the em­peror\, and he\, apparently in­spired by God\, took the matter into his own hands. He called for workmen to remove the steps. \nA subterranean passage was revealed directly below the spot\, which the boy’s stick had indicated. Into this pas­sage the blind lad jumped\, to be followed by the emperor\, the priests\, and the workmen. \nThey made their way in the dim light of candles\, and when\, farther along the pas­sage\, they came upon a wall that blocked further ad­vance\, the boy signed that this also should be removed. When the wall fell\, there was brought to view still another long\, dark corridor. At the end of this\, the searchers found a crypt\, upon which\, to their profound wonderment\, a vigil lamp\, alight and burning in a little walled recess\, cast a heavenly radiance. \nAs Charlemagne and his afflicted small guide\, with their companions\, stood be­fore the lamp\, its light went out. And at the same moment\, the boy\, blind and deaf and dumb from birth\, felt sight and hearing and speech flood into his young eyes\, his ears\, and his tongue. \n“It is she! It is she!” he cried out. The great emperor\, not knowing what he meant\, nevertheless repeated the words after him. The call was taken up by the crowds in the church above\, as the people sank to their knees\, bowed in the realization of the presence of something celestial and holy. \nThe crypt at last was opened\, and a casket was found within it. In the casket was a winding sheet\, and in the sheet were relics\, and upon the relics was an inscrip­tion that read\, “Here lies the body of Saint Anne\, mother of the glorious Virgin Mary.” The winding sheet\, it was noted\, was of eastern design and texture. \nCharlemagne\, over­whelmed\, venerated with pro­found gratitude the relics of the mother of Heaven’s Queen. He remained a long time in prayer. The priests and the people\, awed by the graces given them in such abundance and by the choice of their countryside for such a heavenly manifestation\, for three days spoke but rarely\, and then in whispers. \nThe emperor had an exact and detailed account of the miraculous finding drawn up by a notary and sent to Pope Saint Leo III\, with an accom­panying letter from himself. These documents and the pope’s reply are preserved to this day. Many papal bulls have attested\, over and over again\, to the genuineness of Saint Anne’s relics at Apt. \nCountless cures and conver­sions have taken place at the shrine there\, where the greater part of the relics still repose: the first shrine in the West to the tenderly under­standing and most powerful saint whose august and un­utterable privilege it was to be the mother of the Mother of God and the instrument of the Immaculate Conception. \nSister Catherine Goddard Clark was the foundress of the original Saint Benedict Center in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and also one of the founding members of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She was the author of several books. \nThe image shows Saint Anne with the Virgin Mary as a Child\, painted by Bartolome Esteban Murillo\, ca. 17th-century. \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \n“The days are coming\,” declares the Lord\, “when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.”   \nJer 33:14
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SUMMARY:Saint Albert the Great
DESCRIPTION:Saint Albert the Great\, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Rv 3:1-6\, 14-22/Lk 19:1-10 (498). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/albert-the-great-458\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ALBERT THE GREAT \n*Albertus Magnus OP (c. 1200 – 15 November 1280)\, also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne\, was a German Dominican friar\, philosopher\, scientist\, and bishop. Later canonised as a Catholic saint\, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and\, late in his life\, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name. Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church distinguishes him as one of the 37 Doctors of the Church. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertus_Magnus \nThe land yields its harvest; God\, our God\, blesses us. May God bless us still\, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him. \nPs 67:6–7 \n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Margaret of Scotland & Saint Gertrude
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 10.—ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND. \n\nMARGARET’S name signifies “pearl;” “a fitting name\,” says Theodoric\, her confessor and her first biographer\, “for one such as she.” Her soul was like a precious pearl. A life spent amidst the luxury of a royal court never dimmed its lustre\, or stole it away from Him who had bought it with His blood. She was the grand\, daughter of an English king; and in 1070 she became the bride of Malcolm\, and reigned Queen of Scotland till her death in 1093. How did she become a Saint in a position where sanctity is so difficult? First\, she burned with zeal for the house of God. She built churches and monasteries; she busied herself in making vestments; she could not rest till she saw the laws of God and His Church observed throughout her realm. Next\, amidst a thousand cares\, she found time to converse with God—ordering her piety with such sweetness and discretion that she won her husband to sanctity like her own. He used to rise with her at night for prayer; he loved to kiss the holy books she used\, and sometimes he would steal them away\, and bring them back to his wife covered with jewels. Lastly\, with virtues so great\, she wept constantly over her sins\, and begged her confessor to correct her faults. St. Margaret did not neglect her duties in the world because she was not of it. Never was a better mother. She spared no pains in the education of her eight children\, and their sanctity was the fruit of her prudence and her zeal. Never was a better queen. She was the most trusted counsellor of her husband\, and she labored for the material improvement of the country. But\, in the midst of the world’s pleasures\, she sighed for the better country\, and accepted death as a release. On her death-bed she received the news that her husband and her eldest son were slain in battle. She thanked God\, Who had sent this last affliction as a penance for her sins. After receiving Holy Viaticum\, she was repeating the prayer from the Missal\, “O Lord Jesus Christ\, Who by Thy death didst give life to the world\, deliver me.” At the words “deliver me\,” says her biographer\, she took her departure to Christ\, the Author of true liberty.\n\nReflection.—All perfection consists in keeping a guard upon the heart. Wherever we are\, we can make a solitude in our hearts\, detach ourselves from the world\, and converse familiarly with God. Let us take St. Margaret for our example and encouragement. \nSaint Margaret of Scotland; Saint Gertrude\, Virgin Rv 4:1-11/Lk 19:11-28 (499). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/margaret-of-scotland-682\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/gertrude-the-great-587\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT \n*St. Margaret of Scotland – Shaw. \nSaint Margaret\, Queen of Scotland\, also known as “Margaret of Wessex”\, was called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Artwork by H. Shaw. \n**Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Naomh Maighréad; Scots: Saunt Marget\, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093)\, also known as Margaret of Wessex\, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”. Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile\, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066\, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her family fled north\, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland \nLives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 15.—ST. GERTRUDE\, Abbess. \nGERTRUDE was born in the year 1263\, of a noble Saxon family\, and placed at the age of five for education in the Benedictine abbey of Rodelsdorf. Her strong mind was carefully cultivated\, and she wrote Latin with unusual elegance and force; above all\, she was perfect in humility and mortification\, in obedience\, and in all monastic observances. Her life was crowded with wonders. She has in obedience recorded some of her visions\, in which she traces in words of indescribable beauty the intimate converse of her soul with Jesus and Mary. She was gentle to all\, most gentle to sinners; filled with devotion to the Saints of God\, to the souls in purgatory\, and above all to the Passion of Our Lord and to His Sacred Heart. She ruled her abbey with perfect wisdom and love for forty years. Her life was one of great and almost continual suffering\, and her longing to be with Jesus was not granted till 1334\, when she had reached her seventy-second year. \nReflection.—No preparation for death can be better than to offer and resign ourselves anew to the Divine Will—humbly\, lovingly\, with unbounded confidence in the infinite mercy and goodness of God. \n***Gertrude the Great (or Saint Gertrude of Helfta; Italian: Santa Gertrude\, German: Gertrud die Große von Helfta\, Latin: Sancta Gertrudis; January 6\, 1256 – November 17\, 1302) was a German Benedictine nun and mystic. She is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church and by The Episcopal Church. In addition to being commemorated in the Episcopal Calendar of Saints on November 21\, Gertrude is inscribed in the General Roman Calendar for optional celebration throughout the Roman Rite\, as a memorial on November 16. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_the_Great \nNow faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. \nHeb 11:1 \n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. \nELIZABETH was daughter of a king of Hungary\, and niece of St. Hedwige. She was betrothed in infancy to Louis\, Landgrave of Thuringia\, and brought up in his father’s court. Not content with receiving daily numbers of poor in her palace\, and relieving all in distress\, she built several hospitals\, where she served the sick\, dressing the most repulsive sores with her own hands. Once as she was carrying in the folds of her mantle some provisions for the poor\, she met her husband returning from the chase. Astonished to see her bending under the weight of her burden\, he opened the mantle which she kept pressed against her\, and found in it nothing but beautiful red and white roses\, although it was not the season for flowers. Bidding her pursue her way\, he took one of the marvelous roses\, and kept it all his life. On her husband’s death she was cruelly driven from her palace\, and forced to wander through the streets with her little children\, a prey to hunger and cold; but she welcomed all her sufferings\, and continued to be the mother of the poor\, converting many by her holy life. She died in 1231\, at the age of twenty-four. \nReflection.—This young and delicate princess made herself the servant and nurse of the poor. Let her example teach us to disregard the opinions of the world and to overcome our natural repugnances\, in order to serve Christ in the persons of His poor. \nSaint Elizabeth of Hungary\, Religious  Memorial Rv 5:1-10/Lk 19:41-44 (500). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/elizabeth-of-hungary-550\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY \n*St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s Charity – Leighton. \nSaint Elizabeth\, Queen of Hungary\, gives bread to the poor. Artwork by E. Leighton. \n**Elizabeth of Hungary (German: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen\, Hungarian: Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet\, Slovak: Svätá Alžbeta Uhorská; 7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231)\, also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia\, or Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia\, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia in Germany.Elizabeth was married at the age of 14\, and widowed at 20. After her husband’s death\, she regained her dowry\, using the money to build a hospital where she herself served the sick. She became a symbol of Christian charity after her death at the age of 24 and was canonized on 25 May 1235. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was an early member of the Third Order of St. Francis\, and is today honored as its patroness. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Hungary \nWhat answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? “The Lord has established Zion\, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”   \nIs 14:32
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SUMMARY:The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter & Paul & Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
DESCRIPTION:The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul\, Apostles: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne\, Virgin Rv 10:8-11/Lk 19:45-48 (501). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/dedication-of-the-basilicas-of-sts-peter–paul-414\nSAINTS DEDICATION OF THE BASILICAS OF STS. PETER & PAUL \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/rose-philippine-duchesne-754\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ROSE PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE \n*The Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura)\, commonly known as Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls\, is one of Rome‘s four major papal basilicas\, along with the basilicas of Saint John in the Lateran\, Saint Peter’s\, and Saint Mary Major\, as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls \n**The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano)\, or simply Saint Peter’s Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri)\, is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City\, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome\, Italy. It was initially planned by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the aging Old St. Peter’s Basilica\, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626. \nWhat are the four major churches in Rome? \n \nArchbasilica of St. John Lateran bottom right (see Nov 9)\, St. Peter’s Basilica top left (see Nov 18)\, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls top right (see Nov 18)\, and Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore bottom left (see Aug 5) are the only four Major Basilicas\, all other churches called “Basilica” are Minor Basilicas. \n \nSts. Peter and Paul: Their Basilicas & How they made Rome a Christian city | EWTN Vaticano \n***St. Rose Philippine Duchesne\, R.S.C.J.- november 18 \nMissionary to Native Americans…\nSt. Rose Philippine Duchesne was a passionate young woman with a heart for missionary work. She joined the Visitation nuns at the age of 19\, but a few years later\, convents were shut down during the French Revolution\, and Rose was forced to return to life as a lay woman for many years. Ten years later\, she was finally able to rejoin a convent\, this time as a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818\, she was sent to the Louisiana Territory as a missionary\, facing illness\, hardship and hunger to bring Catholicism to the Native Americans. She opened the first free school for girls west of the Mississippi river\, as well as the first Catholic school for Native Americans. She was known among the Pottawatomie Indians as the “Woman Who Prays Always.” \n\nSt. Rose Philippine Duchesne\n\n***Rose Philippine Duchesne\, RCSJ (August 29\, 1769 – November 18\, 1852)\, was a French religious sister and educator who was declared a saint of the Catholic Church. Along with the foundress\, Madeleine-Sophie Barat\, she was a prominent early member of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She founded the congregation‘s first communities in the United States. She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States\, then the western frontier of the nation.Duchesne was beatified on May 12\, 1940\, and canonized on July 3\, 1988\, by the Roman Catholic Church. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Philippine_Duchesne \nRejoice greatly\, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud\, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo\, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he\, humble and riding on an ass\, on a colt the foal of an ass.   \nZECHARIAH 9:9\, RSV
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture*Parable* The Lost Drachma – Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by James Tissot shows the woman from Jesus Christ’s parable\, narrated in Luke 15:7-10\, diligently sweeping her house to find a lost coin. \nLk 15:7-10 \nThe Parable of the Lost Coin. \n8“Or what woman having ten coins* and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house\, searching carefully until she finds it? \n9And when she does find it\, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them\, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ \n10In just the same way\, I tell you\, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/15 \n\nSaying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. \n\n\n1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel: \n*While you are on this earth\, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks. \n2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias: \n*They began to sing hymns of praise\, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them. \n3-A simple Jesus prayer: \n*Lord\, Lord\, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful. \n4-Another prayer: \n*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God. \nBut God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. \n1 Cor 1:27
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SUMMARY:Our Lord Jesus Christ\, King of the Universe
DESCRIPTION:Our Lord Jesus Christ\, King of the Universe Solemnity 2 Sm 5:1-3/Col 1:12-20/Lk 23:35-43 (162) Pss Prop. \n*Christ\, the Lord of the World – Rubens. \nThis image\, by Peter Paul Rubens\, shows a triumphant and risen Jesus Christ in heaven as the Lord and King of the World. \n**The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ\, King of the Universe\, commonly referred to as the Feast of Christ the King\, Christ the King Sunday or Reign of Christ Sunday\, is a feast in the liturgical year which emphasises the true kingship of Christ. The feast is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar\, instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius XI for the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_King \nLord\, my strength and my fortress\, my refuge in time of distress\, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say\, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods\, worthless idols that did them no good.”   \nJer 16:19 \n 
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SUMMARY:The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 21.—THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. \nRELIGIOUS parents never fail by devout prayer to consecrate their children to the divine service and love\, both before and after their birth. Some amongst the Jews\, not content with this general consecration of their children\, offered them to God in their infancy\, by the hands of the priests in the Temple\, to be lodged in apartments belonging to the Temple\, and brought up in attending the priests and Levites in the sacred ministry. It is an ancient tradition that the Blessed Virgin Mary was thus solemnly offered to God in the Temple in her infancy. This festival of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin the Church celebrates this day. The tender soul of Mary was then adorned with the most precious graces\, an object of astonishment and praise to the angels\, and of the highest complacence to the adorable Trinity; the Father looking upon her as His beloved daughter\, the Son as one chosen and prepared to become His mother\, and the Holy Ghost as His darling spouse. Mary was the first who set up the standard of virginity; and\, by consecrating it by a perpetual vow to Our Lord\, she opened the way to all virgins who have since followed her example. \nReflection.—Mary’s first presentation to God was an offering most acceptable in His sight. Let our consecration of ourselves to God be made under her patronage\, and assisted by her powerful intercession and the union of her merits. \nThe Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Thirty-Fourth or Last Week in Ordinary Time) Memorial Rv 14:1-3\, 4b-5/Lk 21:1-4 (503) Pss II. \n*The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary\, known in the East as The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple\, is a liturgical feast celebrated on November 21 by the Catholic\, Eastern Orthodox\, and some Anglo-Catholic Churches. \nThe feast is associated with an event recounted not in the New Testament\, but in the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James. According to that text\, Mary‘s parents\, Joachim and Anne\, who had been childless\, received a heavenly message that they would have a child. In thanksgiving for the gift of their daughter\, they brought her\, when still a child\, to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to God. Later versions of the story (such as the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary) indicate that Mary was taken to the Temple at around the age of three in fulfillment of a vow. Tradition held that she was to remain there to be educated in preparation for her role as Mother of God. \nIn the Eastern Orthodox tradition\, this is one of the days when women named Mary (Μαρία in Greek) and Despoina (Δέσποινα) celebrate their name day. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_of_Mary \nTake the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit\, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind\, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. \nEph 6:17–18
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SUMMARY:St. Cecilia
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 22.—ST. CECILIA\, Virgin\, Martyr. \nIN the evening of her wedding-day\, with the music of the marriage-hymn ringing in her ears\, Cecilia\, a rich\, beautiful\, and noble Roman maiden\, renewed the vow by which she had consecrated her virginity to God. “Pure be my heart and undefiled my flesh; for I have a spouse you know not of—an angel of my Lord.” The heart of her young husband Valerian was moved by her words; he ‘received Baptism\, and within a few days he and his brother Tiburtius\, who had been brought by him to a knowledge of the Faith\, sealed their confession with their blood. Cecilia only remained. “Do you not know\,” was her answer to the threats of the prefect\, “that I am the bride of my Lord Jesus Christ?” The death appointed for her was suffocation\, and she remained a day and a night in a hot-air bath\, heated seven times its wont. But “the flames had no power over her body\, neither was a hair of her head singed.” The lictor sent to dispatch her struck with trembling hand three blows and left her still alive. For two days and nights Cecilia lay with her head\, half severed on the pavement of her bath\, fully sensible\, and joyfully awaiting her crown; on the third the agony was over\, and in 177 the virgin Saint gave back her pure spirit to Christ. \nReflection.—St. Cecilia teaches us to rejoice in every sacrifice as a pledge of our love of Christ\, and to welcome sufferings and death as hastening our union with Him. \nSaint Cecilia\, Virgin and Martyr Memorial Rv 14:14-19/Lk 21:5-11 (504). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/cecilia-520\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. CECILIA \n*St. Cecilia – Vouet. \nSaint Cecilia\, Roman virgin martyr and Patroness of Musicians\, plays the organ while receiving inspiration from angels. Artwork by S. Vouet. \n**Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic\, Orthodox\, Anglican\, and some Lutheran churches\, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians\, it being written that\, as the musicians played at her wedding\, Cecilia “sang in her heart to the Lord.” Musical compositions are dedicated to her\, and her feast\, on 22 November\, is the occasion of concerts and musical festivals. St Cecilia is one of several virgin martyrs commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass in the Latin Church. The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere\, founded in the 3rd century by Pope Urban I\, is believed to be on the site of the house where she lived and died. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cecilia \nBe patient\, then\, brothers and sisters\, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop\, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. \nJAMES 5:7
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SUMMARY:Saint Clement I & Saint Columban & Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nNovember 23.—ST. CLEMENT OF ROME \n\nCLEMENT is said to have been a convert of noble birth\, and to have been consecrated bishop by St. Peter himself. With the words of the apostles still ringing in his ears\, he began to rule the Church of God; and thus he was among the first\, as he was among the most illustrious\, in the long line of those who have held the place and power of Peter. He lived at the same time and in the same city with Domitian\, the persecutor of the Church; and besides external foes he had to contend with schism and rebellion from within. The Corinthian Church was torn by intestine strife\, and its members set the authority of their clergy at defiance. It was then that St. Clement interfered in the plenitude of his apostolic authority\, and sent his famous epistle to the Corinthians. He urged the duties of charity\, and above all of submission to the clergy.\n\nHe did not speak in vain; peace and order were restored. St. Clement had done his work on earth\, and shortly after sealed with his blood the Faith which he had learned from Peter and taught to the nations. \nReflection.—God rewards a simple spirit of submission to the clergy\, for the honor done to them is done to Him. Your virtue is unreal\, your faith in danger\, if you fail in this. \nSaint Clement I\, Pope and Martyr; Saint Columban\, Abbot; Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro\, Priest and Martyr] Rv 15:1-4/Lk 21:12-19 (505). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/clement-i-528\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. CLEMENT I \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/columban-531\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. COLUMBAN \n*Saint Clement\, by Tiepolo.\nA Vision of the Trinity-by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Overview. This highly finished oil sketch relates to an altarpiece that Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted for the chapel at the palace of Nymphenburg\, outside Munich\, in around 1735 (now in the Alte Pinakothek\, Munich). Saint Clement kneels in the foreground\, a vision of the Trinity above him. God the Father and Christ\, who wears a shroud and holds the Cross\, are seated on a cloud; the dove of the Holy Ghost hovers below. \nTiepolo was celebrated for his use of color and light. Here\, swathes of bold primary colors mark the earthly\, holy and celestial parts of the painting – the red of the carpet\, the yellow gold of Saint Clement’s vestment and the blue of the angels’ draperies.\nA pale light pours in through the classical arch in the background and a silvery cloud carries the holy figures upwards in a spiral of movement. The kneeling saint\, too\, appears to be moving upward\, towards his vision. \n**Clement of Rome (Latin: Clemens Romanus; Greek: Ancient Greek: Κλήμης Ῥώμης\, romanized: Klēmēs Rōmēs; died 99) was a leader in the church of Rome in the late first century AD. He is listed by Irenaeus and Tertullian as the bishop of Rome\, holding office from 88 AD to his death in 99 AD. In the Catholic Church\, he is regarded as the fourth pope as Clement I. He is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church\, one of the three chief ones together with Polycarp and Ignatius of Antioch. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Rome \n\n***Columbanus (Irish: Columbán; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms\, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy. \nColumbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those repenting of sins\, which emphasized private confession to a priest\, followed by penances levied by the priest in reparation for the sins. Columbanus is one of the earliest identifiable Hiberno-Latin writers. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbanus \n****José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez\, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro\, SJ (January 13\, 1891 – November 23\, 1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. \nPro’s arrest\, lack of trial\, and evidential support gained prominence during the Cristero War. Known for his religious piety and innocence\, he was beatified in Rome on September 25\, 1988\, by Pope John Paul II as a Catholic martyr\, killed in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Pro \nI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming\, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. \nJn 10:11–12 \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc\, Priest\, and Companions\, Martyrs Rv 18:1-2\, 21-23; 19:1-3\, 9a/Lk 21:20-28 (506). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/andrew-dunglac-464\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ANDREW DUNG-LAC \n*Andrew Trần Dũng-Lạc (Vietnamese: Anrê Trần An Dũng Lạc\, Vietnamese pronunciation: [aːn˧re˧ tɕən˨˩ aːn˧ zuŋ˧˥ lak˧˨])\, French: André Dũng-Lạc) (1795 – 21 December 1839) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by beheading during the reign of Minh Mạng. He is a saint and martyr of the Catholic Church. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_D%C5%A9ng-L%E1%BA%A1c \nDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them . . For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law\, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.   \nMt 5:17\, 20
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