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SUMMARY:Saint Ephrem
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJuly 9.—ST. EPHREM\, Deacon. \n\nEPHREM is the light and glory of the Syriac Church. A mere youth\, he entered on the religious life at Nisibis\, his native place.\n\nLong years of retirement taught him the science of the Saints\, and then God called him to Edessa\, there to teach what he had learned so well. He defended the Faith against heresies\, in books which have made him known as the Prophet of the Syrians. Crowds hung upon his words. Tears used to stop his voice when he preached. He trembled and made his hearers tremble at the thought of God’s judgments; but he found in compunction and humility the way to peace\, and he rested with unshaken confidence in the mercy of our blessed Lord. \n“I am setting out\,” he says\, speaking of his own death\, “I am setting out on a journey hard and dangerous. Thee\, O Son of God\, I have taken for my Viaticum. When I am hungry\, I will feed on Thee. The infernal fire will not venture near me\, for it cannot bear the fragrance of Thy Body and Thy Blood.” \nHis hymns won the hearts of the people\, drove out the hymns of the Gnostic heretics\, and gained for him the title which he bears in the Syriac Liturgy to this day—”the Harp of the Holy Ghost.” Passionate as he was by nature\, from the time he entered religion no one ever saw him angry. \nAbounding in labors till the last\, he toiled for the suffering poor at Edessa in the famine of 378\, and there lay down to die in extreme old age. What was the secret of success so various and so complete? Humility\, which made him distrust himself and trust God. Till his death\, he wept for the slight sins committed in the thoughtlessness of boyhood. \nHe refused the dignity of the priesthood. “I\,” he told St. Basil\, whom he went to see at the bidding of the Holy Spirit\, “I am that Ephrem who has wandered from the path of  heaven.” Then bursting into tears\, he cried out\, “O my father\, have pity on a sinful wretch\, and lead me on the narrow way.” \nReflection.—Humility is the path which leads to abiding peace and brings us near to the consolations of God. \nSaint Ephrem\, Deacon and Doctor of the Church Tb 11:5-17/Mk 12:35-37 (357). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/ephrem-of-syria-553\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. EPHREM OF SYRIA \n*Today’s saint\, Ephrem\, was active a century prior to the great conclusions and clarifications of the fifth-century Councils. Although Ephrem did not deviate from what later Councils would explicitly teach\, he used far different language to communicate the same truths\, anticipating later teachings through poetry. Saint Ephrem was a poet and a musician first and foremost. \nHis language is more beautiful\, compelling\, and memorable because it is metaphorical. Exactness in words risks dryness. \nYou can say that the average density of the air in the ship’s hull eventually equaled the average density of the surrounding water. Or you can say that the ship sank like a stone to the ocean floor. You can write that a day’s high dew point caused the air’s water vapor content to slow evaporation. Or you can write that it was so hot and humid that people melted like candles. The Church can teach that we eat Christ’s body and blood in the Holy Eucharist. Or we can speak directly to Christ with the poet Ephrem and say\, “In your bread hides the Spirit who cannot be consumed; in your wine is the fire that cannot be swallowed. The Spirit in your bread\, fire in your wine: behold a wonder heard from our lips.” \nhttps://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/june-9-saint-ephrem-deacon-and-doctor/ \n**Ephrem the Syrian (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ\, romanized: Mār ʾAp̄rêm Sūryāyā\, Classical Syriac pronunciation: [mɑr ʔafˈrem surˈjɑjɑ]; Koinē Greek: Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σῦρος\, romanized: Efrém o Sýros; Latin: Ephraem Syrus; c. 306 – 373)\, also known as Saint Ephrem\, Saint Ephraim\, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis\, was a prominent Christian theologian and writer\, who is revered as one of the most notable hymnographers of Eastern Christianity. He was born in Nisibis\, served as a deacon and later lived in Edessa.Ephrem is venerated as a saint by all traditional Churches. He is especially revered in Syriac Christianity\, both in East Syriac tradition and West Syriac tradition\, and also counted as a Venerable Father (i.e.\, a sainted Monk) in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church in 1920. Ephrem is also credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis\, which\, in later centuries\, was the centre of learning of the Church of the East. \nEphrem wrote a wide variety of hymns\, poems\, and sermons in verse\, as well as prose exegesis. These were works of practical theology for the edification of the Church in troubled times. So popular were his works\, that\, for centuries after his death\, Christian authors wrote hundreds of pseudepigraphal works in his name. He has been called the most significant of all of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church tradition. In Syriac Christian tradition\, he is considered patron of the Syriac people. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrem_the_Syrian \nThe Lord your God is with you\, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you\, but will rejoice over you with singing. \nZEPHANIAH 3:17
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Rebecca at the Well – Tiepolo
DESCRIPTION:Abraham’s servant recognizes Rebecca as the future wife of Isaac when the woman offers to draw water for him and his camels. Artwork by G. Tiepolo. \nGn 24:12-27 \nNear evening\, at the time when women go out to draw water\, he made the camels kneel by the well outside the city. \n12Then he said: “LORD\, God of my master Abraham\, let it turn out favorably for me* today and thus deal graciously with my master Abraham. \n13While I stand here at the spring and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water\, \n14if I say to a young woman\, ‘Please lower your jug\, that I may drink\,’ and she answers\, ‘Drink\, and I will water your camels\, too\,’ then she is the one whom you have decided upon for your servant Isaac. In this way I will know that you have dealt graciously with my master.” \n15d He had scarcely finished speaking when Rebekah—who was born to Bethuel\, son of Milcah\, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—came out with a jug on her shoulder. \n16The young woman was very beautiful\, a virgin\, untouched by man. She went down to the spring and filled her jug. As she came up\, \n17the servant ran toward her and said\, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.” \n18“Drink\, sir\,” she replied\, and quickly lowering the jug into her hand\, she gave him a drink. \n19When she had finished giving him a drink\, she said\, “I will draw water for your camels\, too\, until they have finished drinking.” \n20With that\, she quickly emptied her jug into the drinking trough and ran back to the well to draw more water\, until she had drawn enough for all the camels. \n21The man watched her the whole time\, silently waiting to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful. \n22When the camels had finished drinking\, the man took out a gold nose-ring weighing half a shekel\, and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels for her wrists. \n23Then he asked her: “Whose daughter are you? Tell me\, please. And is there a place in your father’s house for us to spend the night?” \n24She answered: “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah\, whom she bore to Nahor. \n25We have plenty of straw and fodder\,” she added\, “and also a place to spend the night.” \n26The man then knelt and bowed down to the LORD\, \n27saying: “Blessed be the LORD\, the God of my master Abraham\, who has not let his kindness and fidelity toward my master fail. As for me\, the LORD has led me straight to the house of my master’s brother.” \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/24 \nWhat does Genesis 24:20 mean? \nAbraham’s servant had asked God that the girl meant to marry Isaac would offer to water his camels without being prompted (Genesis 24:12–14). In the previous verse\, Rebekah did exactly that. Now she follows through on her offer to keep bringing water to the trough for the camels until they are finished drinking. She acts quickly and thoroughly. \nThis is likely well beyond what Abraham’s servant would have hoped for. Not only has God given the sign that the right girl has been found\, she is demonstrating a generous spirit\, a sense of hospitality\, and a genuine work ethic. The emphasis on Rebekah acting “quickly” seems to confirm that this is unprompted behavior. She’s sincerely acting out of good will\, not being coerced or manipulated with guilt. \nThis is a key feature in how Abraham’s servant has approached his task to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:3–4). His prayer specifically asked God to send a woman of character. Rebekah’s beauty (Genesis 24:16) is certainly a good thing\, but it’s not the primary trait this man is looking for. \nContext Summary \nGenesis 24:10–27 follows Abraham’s servant from Canaan to Mesopotamia on his mission to find a wife for Isaac from among Abraham’s people. Arriving at the town of Nahor\, the servant prays that God will reveal the right woman by allowing her to be the one to offer to water his ten camels without being asked. A young woman named Rebekah immediate does exactly that. When the servant learns this young woman is also the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor\, he quickly worships God for bringing him to the right woman in so little time. \nChapter Context \nAbraham asks his most trusted servant to travel to his former homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac. Swearing to do so\, the servant arrives at the city of Nahor and asks the Lord to show him which young women is appointed for Isaac. Finding Rebekah\, the very granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor\, the servant reveals the reason for his journey to her family. Her father Bethuel and brother Laban agree to allow Rebekah to travel to Canaan and marry Isaac\, which she does. \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. \nMay God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us – so that your ways may be known on earth\, your salvation among all nations. \nPs 67:1–2 \n\n 
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SUMMARY:The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
DESCRIPTION:The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Solemnity Dt 8:2-3\, 14b-16a/1 Cor 10:16-17/Jn 6:51-58 (167) Prop Pss. \n*Why a Feast of Corpus Christi? \n*Institution of Corpus Christi \nPope Urban IV instituted the solemnity of Corpus Christi on the Thursday after Pentecost\, by the papal bull Transiturus de hoc mundo (Aug. 11\, 1264). \nThe pontiff made a point of setting an example by celebrating the first solemnity in Orvieto\, the town where he was then residing. Indeed\, he ordered that the famous corporal with the traces of the Eucharistic miracle that had occurred in Bolsena the previous year\, 1263\, be kept in Orvieto Cathedral — where it still is today. \n**Bolsena Miracle \nWhile a priest was consecrating the bread and the wine he was overcome by strong doubts about the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. A few drops of blood began miraculously to ooze from the consecrated Host\, thereby confirming what our faith professes. \n***St. Thomas Aquinas’ Texts \nUrban IV asked one of the greatest theologians of history\, St Thomas Aquinas — who at that time was accompanying the Pope in Orvieto — to compose the texts of the liturgical office for this feast. They are masterpieces\, in which poetry expresses perfectly the theology. These texts give praise and gratitude to the Most Holy Sacrament\, while the mind\, penetrating the mystery with wonder\, recognizes in the Eucharist the Living and Real Presence of Jesus\, of his Sacrifice of love that reconciles us with the Father\, and gives us salvation. \nhttps://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/why-feast-corpus-christi-16065 \n****The Feast of Corpus Christi (Ecclesiastical Latin: Dies Sanctissimi Corporis et Sanguinis Domini Iesu Christi\, lit. ’Day of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ the Lord’)\, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ\, is a Christian liturgical solemnity celebrating the Real Presence of the Body and Blood\, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the elements of the Eucharist; it is observed by the Roman Catholic Church\, in addition to certain Western Orthodox\, Lutheran\, and Anglican churches. Two months earlier\, the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper is observed on Maundy Thursday in a somber atmosphere leading to Good Friday. The liturgy on that day also commemorates Christ’s washing of the disciples’ feet\, the institution of the priesthood\, and the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. The feast of Corpus Christi was proposed by Saint Thomas Aquinas\, Doctor of the Church\, to Pope Urban IV\, in order to create a feast focused solely on the Holy Eucharist\, emphasizing the joy of the Eucharist being the Body and Blood\, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Having recognized in 1264 the authenticity of the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena\, on input of Aquinas\, the pontiff\, then living in Orvieto\, established the feast of Corpus Christi as a Solemnity and extended it to the whole Roman Catholic Church. \nThe feast is liturgically celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or\, “where the Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is not a holy day of obligation\, it is assigned to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity as its proper day.” \nAt the end of Holy Mass\, there is often a procession of the Blessed Sacrament\, generally displayed in a monstrance. The procession is followed by the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. A notable Eucharistic procession (see below painting) is that presided over by the Pope each year in Rome\, where it begins at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and passes to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major\, where it concludes with the aforementioned Benediction. \n \n\n\nCorpus Christi wreaths\, which are made of flowers\, are hung on the doors and windows of the Christian faithful\, in addition to being erected in gardens and fields. \nThe celebration of the feast was suppressed in Protestant churches during the Reformation for theological reasons: outside Lutheranism\, which maintained the confession of the Real Presence\, many Protestants denied the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist other than as a merely symbolic or spiritual presence. Today\, most Protestant denominations do not recognize the feast day\, with exception of certain Lutheran churches and the Church of England\, the latter of which abolished it in 1548 as the English Reformation progressed\, but later reintroduced it. Some Anglican churches now observe Corpus Christi\, sometimes under the name “Thanksgiving for Holy Communion”. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi \n*****Body and Blood of Christ may refer to: \n\nEucharist\, a Christian rite considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others involving the consumption of bread and wine in memory of Christ\nBlessed Sacrament\, a devotional name used in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church\, as well as in various other denominations\nConsubstantiation\, a theological doctrine that holds that during the sacrament\, the fundamental “substance” of the body and blood of Christ are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine\nTransubstantiation\, a doctrine of the Catholic Church\, the change of substance by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass\, become\, in reality\, the body and blood of Jesus Christ\n\n******Corpus Christi: How to Live the Feast \nhttps://media.ascensionpress.com/2020/06/11/corpus-christi-how-to-live-the-feast/ \nYour love\, Lord\, reaches to the heavens\, your faithfulness to the skies. How priceless is your unfailing love\, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.  \nPs 36:5\, 7 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Rebecca at the Well – Pellegrini
DESCRIPTION:When Rebecca offers water to him\, Abraham’s servant realizes that she is the woman meant to be Isaac’s wife. Artwork by G. Pellegrini. \nGenesis 24 \nWhat was Rebekah known for in the Bible? \nRebecca (/rɪˈbɛkə/) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. \nAbraham called his oldest servant to him and asked him to search for a wife for Isaac \nIt was the custom in Abraham’s day for parents to choose wives or husbands for their children. Abraham wanted to find a good wife for his son Isaac. This would be difficult. Abraham lived in Canaan and did not want Isaac to marry a Canaanite woman because the Canaanites worshipped false gods. Abraham wanted Isaac to marry a righteous woman who would help him remain faithful to the living God and who would teach their children the truth. Only in this way could the priesthood remain with Abraham’s descendants. Without the Priesthood they could not receive the special blessings the Lord had promised them. \nAbraham called his oldest servant to him and asked him to search for a wife for Isaac. He said\, “I want thee to swear by the Lord\, the God of heaven and the God of earth\, that thou shalt not choose a wife for Isaac from the Canaanite women. But thou shalt go to my home country of Mesopotamia\, and there among my own people thou shalt choose a wife for him.” \nThe trusted servant knew this was a very serious and important assignment and asked\, “What if the woman chosen will not follow me back to this land? Should I not take Isaac with me\, so the woman and her family can approve of him?” \nAbraham answered\, “Beware\, do not take Isaac with thee.” Abraham did not want Isaac to go into another land\, where he might be tempted to remain. The Lord had given the land of Canaan to Abraham and his family as an inheritance\, and Abraham wanted them to stay there. \nAbraham told his servant\, “The Lord shall send his angel before thee\, and he will help thee find a wife for Isaac.” \nWith that understanding\, the servant gave his hand to Abraham and promised to do as he had been instructed. \nThe servant began his journey with a caravan of ten camels and a number of men to assist him. He traveled to Mesopotamia\, to the city where Nahor lived. There he made his camels kneel outside the city beside a well of water. It was evening\, and many women were getting water at the well. The servant did not know anyone. Nor did he know how to find the woman the Lord had chosen to be Isaac’s wife. He needed help\, so he prayed\, saying; “O Lord\, behold\, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. Let it come to pass that the young woman to whom I shall say\, ‘Let down thy pitcher that I may drink’\, and she shall say\, ‘Drink\, and I will give thy camels drink also’—let this be the woman that is to be Isaac’s wife.” \nBefore he had finished praying\, a beautiful young woman approached. Her name was Rebekah\, and she was not only beautiful\, but also virtuous and lovely. She loved the Lord and tried to keep his commandments. Because of this\, Rebekah was blessed by the Lord. \nAs Rebekah turned from the well with her water pitcher filled\, the servant ran to meet her. “Let me drink a little water from thy pitcher\,” he said. \n“Drink my lord\,” she replied. Then when she had given him a drink\, she offered\, “I will draw water for thy camels also.” This was the very sign the servant had prayed for\, so he knew Rebekah was the woman the Lord had chosen to be Isaac’s wife. \nAfter the camels had been given water to drink\, the servant asked Rebekah\, “Whose daughter art thou? Tell me\, I pray thee\, is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?” \nHer answer brought great joy to the servant. She told him she was the daughter of Bethuel and a granddaughter of Nahor. The servant knew that Nahor was Abraham’s brother and realized he had been led to the house of Abraham’s relatives. He bowed his head and thanked the Lord. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/24 \nPainting-Rebecca at the Well \nArtist-Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini \nSummary-Genesis 24 \nThis painting captures a pivotal moment in a story taken from the Book of Genesis (24). Abraham had sent a servant to his homeland to find a bride for his son\, Isaac. The servant came to a well\, and waited for a woman kind enough to provide both him and his 10 camels with water: this woman would be the perfect bride for Isaac. \nIn the painting\, an elegantly dressed woman looks calmly at the servant\, her hand resting on a water pitcher – she seems only a little surprised at his request. This is Rebecca\, Isaac’s future wife\, who drew water for the servant and all of his animals. The servant offers her several pieces of jewelry as a reward for her kindness\, which spill out of the open box in front of him. Pellegrini has emphasized Rebecca’s luminous\, pale skin and the golden curls of her hair\, which contrast with the tanned complexion of the balding servant. \nPellegrini’s characteristic use of long\, energetic brushstrokes and his confident application of paint can be appreciated in the bunched-up folds of Rebecca’s blue dress and cream bodice and in the servant’s deep red drapery\, which add a vibrancy and rich texture to the scene. The handle of the pitcher has been described in just a few strokes\, and the stone face in the bottom-right corner built up in loosely applied paint. The woman and the hairy camels just behind the main figures are also painted with freely applied strokes of paint\, but in slightly paler tones and in thinner layers\, giving the impression that they are further away. Thinner still are the layers of paint that describe the pinkish cloudy sky. \nPellegrini\, the brother-in-law of Venetian portraitist Rosalba Carriera\, travelled to England in 1708 and established himself as one of the most sought-after decorative painters in Europe. He stayed for five years and this picture was probably painted during that time. \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 he comes\, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin\, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness\, because I am going to the Father\, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment\, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. \nJn 16:8–11 \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Anthony of Padua
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 13.—ST. ANTONY OF PADUA. \nIN 1221 St. Francis held a general chapter at Assisi; when the others dispersed\, there lingered behind\, unknown and neglected\, a poor Portuguese friar\, resolved to ask for and to refuse nothing. \nNine months later\, Fra Antonio rose under obedience to preach to the religious assembled at Forli\, when\, as the discourse proceeded\, “the Hammer of Heretics\,” “the Ark of the Testament\,” “the eldest son of St. Francis\,” stood revealed in all his sanctity\, learning\, and eloquence before his rapt and astonished brethren. \nDevoted from earliest youth to prayer and study among the Canons Regular\, Ferdinand de Bulloens\, as his name was in the world\, had been stirred\, by the spirit and example of the first five Franciscan martyrs\, to put on their habit and preach the Faith to the Moors in Africa. \nDenied a martyr’s palm\, and enfeebled by sickness\, at the age of twenty-seven he was taking silent but merciless revenge upon himself in the humblest offices of his community. From this obscurity he was now called forth\, and for nine years France\, Italy\, and Sicily heard his voice\, saw his miracles\, and men’s hearts turned to God. \nOne night\, when St. Antony was staying with a friend in the city of Padua\, his host saw brilliant rays streaming under the door of the Saint’s room\, and on looking through the keyhole he beheld a little Child of marvelous beauty standing upon a book which lay open upon the table\, and clinging with both arms round Antony’s neck. With an ineffable sweetness he watched the tender caresses of the Saint and his wondrous Visitor. At last the Child vanished\, and Fra Antonio\, opening the door\, charged his friend\, by the love of Him Whom he had seen\, to “tell the vision to no man” as long as he was alive. \nSuddenly\, in 1231\, our Saint’s brief apostolate was closed\, and the voices of children were heard crying along the streets of Padua\, “Our father\, St. Antony\, is dead.” The following year\, the church-bells of Lisbon rang without ringers\, while at Rome one of its sons was inscribed among the Saints of God. \nReflection.—Let us love to pray and labor unseen\, and cherish in the secret of our hearts the graces of God and the growth of our immortal souls. Like St. Antony\, let us attend to this\, and leave the rest to God. \nSaint Anthony of Padua\, Priest and Doctor of the Church white Memorial 2 Cor 1:18-22/Mt 5:13-16 (360). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/anthony-of-padua-472\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA \n*St. Anthony of Padua – Giordano. \nSaint Anthony of Padua\, also known as Saint Anthony of Lisbon\, is the patron saint of finding lost things. This beautiful artwork showing Saint Anthony holding the Christ Child is by Giordano. \n**Anthony of Padua (Italian: Antonio di Padova) or Anthony of Lisbon (Portuguese: António/Antônio de Lisboa; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon\, Portugal\, and died in Padua\, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his powerful preaching\, expert knowledge of scripture\, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick\, he was one of the most quickly canonized saints in church history\, being canonized less than a year after his death. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII on 16 January 1946. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_of_Padua \nI do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly. \nPs 40:10
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Rebecca Meets Isaac on the Road - Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This brilliant artwork by James Tissot shows Rebecca riding with her caravan to meet her future husband\, Isaac. \nWhat is the story of Rebekah and Isaac? \nIsaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca. Twenty years elapsed before they had children; throughout that time\, both Isaac and Rebecca prayed fervently to God for offspring. God eventually answered Isaac’s prayers and Rebecca conceived. \nHow did Rebecca meet Isaac? \n“It is my master\,” the servant replied. Rebekah came down from the camel and went to meet Isaac. The servant told Isaac everything that had happened and how he found Rebekah. Isaac and Rebekah were married\, and we are told\, “he loved her.” \nWhat did Rebekah do when she first saw Isaac? \nAs he approached\, Rebekah saw him and asked the servant\, “What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?” The servant answered\, “It is Isaac.” Rebekah quickly covered her face with a veil jumped from the camel to greet Isaac. She was excited\, for she was about to meet the man God had chosen to be her husband. \nGn 24:58-67 \n58So they called Rebekah and asked her\, “Will you go with this man?” She answered\, “I will.”* \n59At this they sent off their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men. \n60They blessed Rebekah and said: \n“Sister\, may you grow \ninto thousands of myriads; \nAnd may your descendants gain possession \nof the gates of their enemies!”i \n61Then Rebekah and her attendants started out; they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went on his way. \n62Meanwhile Isaac had gone from Beer-lahai-roi and was living in the region of the Negeb.j \n63One day toward evening he went out to walk in the field\, and caught sight of camels approaching. \n64Rebekah\, too\, caught sight of Isaac\, and got down from her camel. \n65She asked the servant\, “Who is the man over there\, walking through the fields toward us?” “That is my master\,” replied the servant. Then she took her veil and covered herself. \n66The servant recounted to Isaac all the things he had done. \n67Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/24 \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 fact\, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome\, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world\, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. \n1 Jn 5:3–5
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Return of the Dove to the Ark – Millais
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by J. Millais shows two excited girls holding the dove that has returned to Noah’s ark\, signaling the end of the Great Deluge by bringing a green leaf. \nGn 8:5-12 \n5The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month\, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared. \n6At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made\, \n7* and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth. \n8Then he released a dove\, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. \n9But the dove could find no place to perch\, and it returned to him in the ark\, for there was water over all the earth. Putting out his hand\, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark. \n10He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark. \n11In the evening the dove came back to him\, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had diminished on the earth. \n12He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/8 \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. \nAnd the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us\, and we saw his glory\, the glory as of the Father’s only Son\, full of grace and truth. \nFrom his fullness we have all received\, grace in place of grace. \nJn 1:14\,16 \n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Madonna with the Infant Christ Child holding a Goldfinch on a String - Sassoferrato
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by Sassoferrato shows Our Lady holding the Child Jesus Christ\, lovingly looking down at Him. The Holy Ghost\, in the form of a dove\, is in the air above the Mother and Child. \nDescription\nGiovanni Battista Salvi\, called Sassoferrato\nMadonna with the infant christ child holding a goldfinch on a string\noil on copper \n*Sassoferrato specialized in devotional easel paintings\, usually depicting the Virgin Mary alone or with the Christ Child.  His works were in great demand in his own lifetime and the enormous popularity of his compositions is attested to by the numerous autograph and studio replicas of these charming and intimate sacred images.  The present composition is known in four other versions:  in the Staatsgalerie\, Stuttgart (on copper\, 62.5 by 48 cm.); in the Civico Museo Francesco Borgogna\, Vercelli (on oval canvas\, 103 by 77 cm.); in the Hermitage Museum\, St. Petersburg; and another which was sold\, New York\, Sotheby’s\, 5 June 2002\, lot 38 (oil on canvas\, 99 by 80 cm.).  A squared preparatory drawing\, which is almost the exact same size as the present painting\, is in the collection of the Courtauld Institute\, London (24 by 17 cm.). \nSassoferrato based his composition for The Madonna with the Infant Christ Child Holding a Goldfinch on a String on a work by Simone Cantarini known from an engraving.  A related painting by Cantarini\, depicting the Christ Child holding a flower\, is in the collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson. \nIn a letter dated 29 September 2010\, François Macé de Lépinay confirmed the attribution to Sassoferrato.   \n**Giovanni Battista Salvi (Il Sassoferrato) was an Italian Baroque painter best known for his devotional images of Catholic themes. His smoothly rendered and idealized works were influenced by the paintings of various prominent artists of the Baroque and Renaissance era\, particularly Guido Reni\, Albrecht Dürer\, and Raphaël. Born on August 25\, 1609 in Sassoferrato\, Italy\, he was an apprenticed to his father\, the painter Tarquion Salvi\, at a young age. He later moved to Rome to start his career\, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Today\, Salvi’s works are in the collections of the most prominent institutions worldwide\, notably the Louvre Museum in Paris\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York\, the Rikjsmuseum in Amsterdam\, the National Gallery in London\, and the Prado Museum in Madrid. Salvi died on August 8\, 1865 in Rome\, Italy.\nhttps://www.artnet.com/artists/giovanni-battista-salvi-il-sassoferrato/9
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SUMMARY:The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary Memorial 2 Cor 5:14-21 (364)/Lk 2:41-51 (573). \n*Immaculate Heart V – Chambers. \nThe Virgin Mary shows us her sorrowful and Immaculate Heart in this moving artwork\, by American artist CB Chambers. \n**The Immaculate Heart of Mary (Latin: Cor Immaculatum Mariae) is a Roman Catholic devotional name used to refer to the Catholic view of the interior life of Mary\, mother of Jesus\, her joys and sorrows\, her virtues and hidden perfections\, and\, above all\, her virginal love for God the Father\, her maternal love for her son Jesus Christ\, and her motherly and compassionate love for all mankind\, Traditionally\, the Immaculate Heart is depicted pierced with seven swords or wounds\, in homage to the seven dolors of Mary and roses\, usually red or white\, wrapped around the heart. \nThe Eastern Catholic Churches occasionally utilize the image\, devotion\, and theology associated with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. However\, this is a cause of some controversy\, some seeing it as a form of liturgical latinisation. The Roman Catholic view is based on scripture\, particularly the Gospel of Luke. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Heart_of_Mary#:~:text=Th \n“The time has come\,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”   \nMk 1:15
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Sacrifice of Isaac – Rubens
DESCRIPTION:As Abraham is about to sacrifice his son Isaac to God\, an angel appears\, preventing the patriarch from making the sacrifice. Artwork by Peter Paul Rubens \nGn 22:1-19 \nThe Testing of Abraham.* \n1Some time afterward\, God put Abraham to the test and said to him: Abraham! “Here I am!” he replied.a \n2Then God said: Take your son Isaac\, your only one\, whom you love\, and go to the land of Moriah. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.b \n3Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey\, took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac\, and after cutting the wood for the burnt offering\, set out for the place of which God had told him. \n4On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place from a distance. \n5Abraham said to his servants: “Stay here with the donkey\, while the boy and I go on over there. We will worship and then come back to you.” \n6So Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac\, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two walked on together\, \n7Isaac spoke to his father Abraham. “Father!” he said. “Here I am\,” he replied. Isaac continued\, “Here are the fire and the wood\, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” \n8“My son\,” Abraham answered\, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” Then the two walked on together. \n9When they came to the place of which God had told him\, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he bound* his son Isaac\, and put him on top of the wood on the altar.c \n10Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.d \n11But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven\, “Abraham\, Abraham!” “Here I am\,” he answered. \n12“Do not lay your hand on the boy\,” said the angel. “Do not do the least thing to him. For now I know that you fear God\, since you did not withhold from me your son\, your only one.”e \n13Abraham looked up and saw a single ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.* \n14Abraham named that place Yahweh-yireh;* hence people today say\, “On the mountain the LORD will provide.” \n15* A second time the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven \n16f and said: “I swear by my very self—oracle of the LORD—that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your son\, your only one\, \n17I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies\,g \n18and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing\, because you obeyed my command.”h \n19Abraham then returned to his servants\, and they set out together for Beer-sheba\, where Abraham lived. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/22 \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. \nSo do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather\, join with me in suffering for the gospel\, by the power of God. He has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. \n2 Tm 1:8–9 \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Romuald
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—ST. ROMUALD\, Abbot. \nIN 976\, Sergius\, a nobleman of Ravenna\, quarreled with a relative about an estate\, and slew him in a duel. His son Romuald\, horrified at his father’s crime\, entered the Benedictine monastery at Classe\, to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance ended in his own vocation to religion. \nAfter three years at Classe\, Romuald went to live as a hermit near Venice\, where he was joined by Peter Urseolus\, Duke of Venice\, and together they led a most austere life in the midst of assaults from the evil spirits. St. Romuald founded many monasteries\, the chief of which was that at Camaldoli\, a wild desert place\, where he built a church\, which he surrounded with a number of separate cells for the solitaries who lived under his rule. His disciples were hence called Camaldolese. \nHe is said to have seen here a vision of a mystic ladder\, and his white-clothed monks ascending by it to heaven. Among his first disciples were Sts. Adalbert and Boniface\, apostles of Russia\, and Sts. John and Benedict of Poland\, martyrs for the faith. He was an intimate friend of the Emperor St. Henry\, and was reverenced and consulted by many great men of his time. He once passed seven years in solitude and complete silence. \nIn his youth St. Romuald was much troubled by temptations of the flesh. To escape them he had recourse to hunting\, and in the woods first conceived his love for solitude. His father’s sin\, as we have seen\, first prompted him to undertake a forty days’ penance in the monastery\, which he forthwith made his home. \nSome bad example of his fellow monks induced him to leave them and adopt the solitary mode of life. The penance of Urseolus\, who had obtained his power wrongfully\, brought him his first disciple; the temptations of the devil compelled him to his severe life; and finally the persecutions of others were the occasion of his settlement at Camaldoli\, and the foundation of his Order. He died\, as he had foretold twenty years before\, alone\, in his monastery of Val Castro\, on the 19th of June\, 1027. \nReflection.—St. Romuald’s life teaches us that\, if we only follow the impulse of the Holy Spirit\, we shall easily find good everywhere\, even on the most unlikely occasions. Our own sins\, the sins of others\, their ill will against us\, or our own mistakes and misfortunes\, are equally capable of leading us\, with softened hearts\, to the feet of God’s mercy and love. \nSaint Romuald\, Abbot 2 Cor 6:1-10/Mt 5:38-42 (365). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/romuald-752\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ROMUALD \n*Romuald (Latin: Romualdus; c. 951 – traditionally 19 June\, c. 1025/27 AD) was the founder of the Camaldolese order and a major figure in the eleventh-century “Renaissance of eremitical asceticism“. Romuald spent about 30 years traversing Italy\, founding and reforming monasteries and hermitages. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romuald \n“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed\, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed\,” says the Lord\, who has compassion on you.   \nIs 54:10
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture*Parable* The Pharisee and the Publican — Tissot
DESCRIPTION:This artwork by Tissot shows the proud pharisee praying at the front of the Temple\, while the penitent publican bows his head in the back\, asking God for mercy. The scene derives from the parable of Jesus Christ\, recorded in  Luke 18:10-14. \nLk 18:9-14 \nThe Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. \n9He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.c \n10“Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. \n11The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself\, ‘O God\, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy\, dishonest\, adulterous—or even like this tax collector. \n12I fast twice a week\, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’d \n13But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed\, ‘O God\, be merciful to me a sinner.’e \n14I tell you\, the latter went home justified\, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled\, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”f \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/18 \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 since we belong to the day\, let us be sober\, putting on faith and love as a breast-plate\, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. \n1 Thes 5:8–9
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SUMMARY:Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 21.—ST. ALOYSIUS GONZAGA. \nALOYSIUS\, the eldest son of Ferdinand Gonzaga\, Marquis of Castiglione\, was born on the 9th of March\, 1568. The first words he pronounced were the holy names of Jesus and Mary. \nWhen he was nine years of age he made a vow of perpetual virginity\, and by a special grace was ever exempted from temptations against purity. He received his first Communion at the hands of St. Charles Borromeo. \nAt an early age he resolved to leave the world\, and in a vision was directed by our blessed Lady to join the Society of Jesus. The Saint’s mother rejoiced on learning his determination to become a religious\, but his father for three years refused his consent. \nAt length St. Aloysius obtained permission to enter the novitiate on the 25th of November\, 1585. He took his vows after two years\, and went through the ordinary course of philosophy and theology. He was wont to say he doubted whether without penance grace would continue to make head against I nature\, which\, when not afflicted and chastised\, tends gradually to relapse into its old state\, losing the habit of suffering acquired by the labor of years. \n“I am a crooked piece of iron\,” he said\, “and am come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.” During his last year of theology a malignant fever broke out in Rome; the Saint offered himself for the service of the sick\, and he was accepted for the dangerous duty. Several of the brothers caught the fever\, and Aloysius was of the number. \nHe was brought to the point of death\, but recovered\, only to fall\, however\, into slow fever\, which carried him off after three months. He died\, repeating the Holy Name\, a little after midnight between the 20th and 21st of June\, on the octave-day of Corpus Christi\, being Prather more than twenty-three years of age. \nReflection.—Cardinal Bellarmine\, the Saint’s confessor\, testified that he had never mortally offended God. Yet he chastised his body rigorously\, rose at night to pray\, and shed many tears for his sins. Pray that\, not having followed his innocence\, you may yet imitate his penance. \nSaint Aloysius Gonzaga\, Religious Memorial 2 Cor 9:6-11/Mt 6:1-6\, 16-18 (367). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/aloysius-gonzaga-459\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ALOYSIUS GONZAGA \n*St. Aloysius Gonzaga. \nThis is an antique illustration of Saint Aloysius\, an Italian saint who joined the Jesuits when he was eighteen years old and died at the age of twenty-three from an epidemic\, after caring for the sick. \n**Saint Aloysius de Gonzaga (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga; 9 March 1568 – 21 June 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College\, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga \nFather\, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am\, and to see my glory\, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. \nJn 17:24 \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Paulinus of Nola\, Saints John Fisher and Thomas More
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 22.—ST. PAULINUS OF NOLA. \nPAULINUS was of a family which boasted of a long line of senators\, prefects\, and consuls. He was educated with great care\, and his genius and eloquence\, in prose and verse\, were the admiration of St. Jerome and St. Augustine. \nHe had more than doubled his wealth by marriage\, and was one of the foremost men of his time. Though he was the chosen friend of Saints\, and had a great devotion to St. Felix of Nola\, he was still only a catechumen\, trying to serve two masters. \nBut God drew him to Himself along the way of sorrows and trials. He received baptism\, withdrew into Spain to be alone\, and then\, in consort with his holy wife\, sold all their vast estates in various parts of the empire\, distributing their proceeds so prudently that St. Jerome says East and West were filled with his alms. \nHe was then ordained priest\, and retired to Nola in Campania. There he rebuilt the Church of St. Felix with great magnificence\, and served it night and day\, living a life of extreme abstinence and toil. \nIn 409 he was chosen bishop\, and for more than thirty years so ruled as to be conspicuous in an age blessed with many great and wise bishops. St. Gregory the Great tells us that when the Vandals of Africa had made a descent on Campania\, Paulinus spent all he had in relieving the distress of his people and redeeming them from slavery. At last there came a poor widow; her only son had been carried off by the son-in-law of the Vandal king. “Such as I have I give thee\,” said the Saint to her; “we will go to Africa\, and I will give myself for your son.” \nHaving overborne her resistance\, they went\, and Paulinus was accepted in place of the widow’s son\, and employed as gardener. After a time the king found out\, by divine interposition\, that his son-in-law’s slave was the great Bishop of Nola. He at once set him free\, granting him also the freedom of all the townsmen of Nola who were in slavery. \nOne who knew him well says he was meek as Moses\, priestlike as Aaron\, innocent as Samuel\, tender as David\, wise as Solomon\, apostolic as Peter\, loving as John\, cautious as Thomas\, keen-sighted as Stephen\, fervent as Apollos. He died in 431. \nReflection.—”Go to Campania\,” writes St. Augustine; “there study Paulinus\, that choice servant of God. With what generosity\, with what still greater humility\, he has flung from him the burden of this world’s grandeurs to take on him the yoke of Christ\, and in His service how serene and unobtrusive his life!” \nSaint Paulinus of Nola\, Bishop; Saints John Fisher\, Bishop\, and Thomas More\, Martyrs 2 Cor 11:1-11/Mt 6:7-15 (368). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/paulinus-of-nola-724\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. PAULINUS OF NOLA \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/john-fisher-637\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. JOHN FISHER \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/thomas-more-787\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. THOMAS MORE \n*St. Thomas More (Detail) – Rubens. \nSaint Thomas More was the High Chancellor of England\, who was martyred and executed at Tower Hill in London because he would not approve of Henry VIII’s divorce and remarriage and the establishment of the Church of England. He is described as “A Man For All Seasons.” Artwork by the master Peter Paul Rubens. \n*Paulinus of Nola (/pɔːˈlaɪnəs/; Latin: Paulinus Nolanus; also Anglicized as Pauline of Nola; c. 354 – 22 June 431) born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus\, was a Roman poet\, writer\, and senator who attained the ranks of suffect consul (c. 377) and governor of Campania (c. 380–81) but—following the assassination of the emperor Gratian and under the influence of his Spanish wife Therasia of Nola—abandoned his career\, was baptized as a Christian\, and probably after Therasia’s death became bishop of Nola in Campania. While there\, he wrote poems in honor of his predecessor St Felix and corresponded with other Christian leaders throughout the empire. He is credited with the introduction of bells to Christian worship and helped resolve the disputed election of Pope Boniface I. His renunciation of his wealth and station in favor of an ascetic and philanthropic life was held up as an example by many of his contemporaries—including SS Augustine\, Jerome\, Martin\, and Ambrose—and he was subsequently venerated as a saint. His relics became a focus of pilgrimage\, but were removed from Nola sometime between the 11th and 20th centuries. His feast day is observed on 22 June in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. In Nola\, the entire week around his feast day is celebrated as the Festival of the Lilies. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinus_of_Nola \n*John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic bishop\, cardinal\, and theologian. Fisher was also an academic and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI. \nFisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as the supreme head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church‘s doctrine of papal supremacy. He was named a cardinal shortly before his death. He is honored as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He shares his feast day with Thomas More on 22 June in the Catholic calendar of saints and on 6 July in that of the Church of England. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher \n*Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535)\, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More\, was an English lawyer\, judge\, social philosopher\, author\, statesman\, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia\, published in 1516\, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. \nMore opposed the Protestant Reformation\, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther\, Huldrych Zwingli\, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII’s separation from the Catholic Church\, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy\, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution\, he was reported to have said: “I die the King’s good servant\, and God’s first”. \nPope Pius XI canonized More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More \nAgain Jesus said\, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me\, I am sending you.”   \nJn 20:21
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Samson & Delilah – Mantegna
DESCRIPTION:Delilah cuts off the hair of Samson while he sleeps\, in this unique artwork by A. Mantegna. \nJgs 16:1-22 \nSamson and Delilah. \n4After that he fell in love with a woman in the Wadi Sorek whose name was Delilah. \n5a The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said\, “Trick him and find out where he gets his great strength\, and how we may overcome and bind him so as to make him helpless. Then for our part\, we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” \n6So Delilah said to Samson\, “Tell me where you get your great strength and how you may be bound so as to be made helpless.” \n7“If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not dried\,” Samson answered her\, “I shall grow weaker and be like anyone else.” \n8So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not dried\, and she bound him with them. \n9She had men lying in wait in the room\, and she said to him\, “The Philistines are upon you\, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a thread of tow is snapped by a whiff of flame; and his strength remained unexplained. \n10Delilah said to Samson\, “You have mocked me and told me lies. Now tell me how you may be bound.” \n11“If they bind me tight with new ropes\, with which no work has been done\,” he answered her\, “I shall grow weaker and be like anyone else.” \n12So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them. Then she said to him\, “The Philistines are upon you\, Samson!” For there were men lying in wait in the room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread. \n13Delilah said to Samson again\, “Up to now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you may be bound.” He said to her\, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair into the web and fasten them with the pin\, I shall grow weaker and be like anyone else.” \n14So when he went to bed\, Delilah took the seven locks of his hair and wove them into the web\, and fastened them with the pin. Then she said\, “The Philistines are upon you\, Samson!” Awakening from his sleep\, he pulled out both the loom and the web. \n15b Then she said to him\, “How can you say ‘I love you’ when your heart is not mine? Three times already you have mocked me\, and not told me where you get your great strength!” \n16c She pressed him continually and pestered him till he was deathly weary of it. \n17So he told her all that was in his heart and said\, “No razor has touched my head\, for I have been a nazirite for God from my mother’s womb.d If I am shaved\, my strength will leave me\, and I shall grow weaker and be like anyone else.” \n18When Delilah realized that he had told her all that was in his heart\, she summoned the lords of the Philistines\, saying\, “Come up this time\, for he has told me all that is in his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came to her and brought the money with them.e \n19She put him to sleep on her lap\, and called for a man who shaved off the seven locks of his hair. He immediately became helpless\, for his strength had left him.* \n20When she said “The Philistines are upon you\, Samson!” he woke from his sleep and thought\, “I will go out as I have done time and again and shake myself free.” He did not realize that the LORD had left him. \n21But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters\, and he was put to grinding grain in the prison. \n22But the hair of his head began to grow as soon as it was shaved. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/judges/16 \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. \nLet the peace of Christ rule in your hearts\, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. \nCol 3:15
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SUMMARY:The Nativity of John the Baptist
DESCRIPTION:The Nativity of John the Baptist Solemnity Vigil: Jer 1:4-10/1 Pt 1:8-12/Lk 1:5-17 (586) Day: Is 49:1-6/Acts 13:22-26/Lk 1:57-66\, 80 (587) Pss Prop. \n*The Voice of one crying in the wilderness\, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord; behold thy God (Is. xl. 3-9)!” \nhttps://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/Nativity%20of%20St.%20John%20the%20Baptist%20Liturgical%20Year.html \n(from the Liturgical Year\, 1904) \n \n**The Nativity of John the Baptist (or Birth of John the Baptist\, or Nativity of the Forerunner\, or colloquially Johnmas or St. John’s Day (in German) Johannistag) is a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of John the Baptist. It is observed annually on 24 June. The Nativity of John the Baptist is a high-ranking liturgical feast\, kept in the Roman Catholic\, Anglican\, Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran churches. The sole biblical account of the birth of John the Baptist comes from the Gospel of Luke. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_John_the_Baptist#:~:text=The%20Nativity%20of%20 \nI lift up my eyes to you\, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master\, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress\, so our eyes look to the Lord our God\, till he shows us his mercy. \nPs 123:1–2
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture*Parable* The Good Samaritan – Master of the Good Samaritan
DESCRIPTION:The Good Samaritan from Jesus Christ’s parable tends the wounds of the traveler who was attacked by robbers. In the distance\, the priest and Levite are walking off. Artwork by the Master of the Good Samaritan. \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. \nI lift up my eyes to you\, to you who sit enthroned in heaven. As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master\, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress\, so our eyes look to the Lord our God\, till he shows us his mercy. \nPSALM 123:1–2
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Samson & the Philistines – Bloch
DESCRIPTION:This artwork\, by C. Bloch\, shows the Philistines mocking Samson\, whom they captured when he lost his superhuman strength. \nJgs 16:23-27 \n23f The lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon* and to celebrate. They said\, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our power.” \n24When the people saw him\, they praised their god. For they said\, \n“Our god has delivered into our power \nour enemy\, the ravager of our land\, \nthe one who has multiplied our slain.” \n25When their spirits were high\, they said\, “Call Samson that he may amuse us.” So they called Samson from the prison\, and he provided amusement for them. They made him stand between the columns\, \n26and Samson said to the attendant who was holding his hand\, “Put me where I may touch the columns that support the temple\, so that I may lean against them.” \n27The temple was full of men and women: all the lords of the Philistines were there\, and from the roof about three thousand men and women looked on as Samson provided amusement. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/judges/16 \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. \nWe proclaim to you what we have seen and heard\, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son\, Jesus Christ. \n1 Jn 1:3
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SUMMARY:Saint Cyril
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n\n CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA.\nCYRIL became Patriarch of Alexandria in 412.\n\nHaving at first thrown himself with ardor into the party politics of the place\, God called him to a nobler conflict. In 428\, Nestorius\, Bishop of Constantinople\, began to deny the unity of Person in Christ\, and to refuse to the Blessed Virgin the title of “Mother of God.” \nHe was strongly supported by disciples and friends throughout the East. As the assertion of the divine maternity of Our Lady was necessary to the integrity of the doctrine of the Incarnation\, so\, with St. Cyril\, devotion to the Mother was the necessary complement of his devotion to the Son. \nSt. Cyril\, after expostulating in vain\, accused Nestorius to Pope Celestine. The Pope commanded retraction\, under pain of separation from the Church\, and entrusted St. Cyril with the conduct of the proceedings. \nThe appointed day\, June 7\, 431\, found Nestorius and Cyril at Ephesus\, with over 200 bishops. After waiting twelve days in vain for the Syrian bishops\, the council with Cyril tried Nestorius\, and deposed him from his see. \nUpon this the Syrians and Nestorians excommunicated St. Cyril\, and complained of him to the emperor as a peace-breaker. Imprisoned and threatened with banishment\, the Saint rejoiced to confess Christ by suffering. \nIn time it was recognized that St. Cyril was right\, and with him the Church triumphed. Forgetting his wrongs\, and careless of controversial punctilio\, Cyril then reconciled himself with all who would consent to hold the doctrine of the Incarnation intact. He died in 444. \nReflection.—The Incarnation is the mystery of God’s dwelling within us\, and therefore should be the dearest object of our contemplation. It was the passion of St. Cyril’s life; for it he underwent toil and persecution\, and willingly sacrificed credit and friends. \nSaint Cyril of Alexandria\, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Gn 13:2\, 5-18/Mt 7:6\, 12-14 (372). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/cyril-of-alexandria-536\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA \n*Cyril of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας; Coptic: Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁ̅ also ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; c. 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading antagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431\, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople. Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and also as a Doctor of the Church\, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers. The Nestorian bishops at their synod at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic\, labelling him as a “monster\, born and educated for the destruction of the church.” \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria \nBut just as he who called you is holy\, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy\, because I am holy.”   \n1 Pt 1:15–16 \n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Irenaeus
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 28.—ST. IRENÆUS\, Bishop\, Martyr. \nTHIS Saint was born about the year 120. He was a Grecian\, probably a native of Lesser Asia. \nHis parents\, who were Christians\, placed him under the care of the great St. Polycarp\, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in so holy a school that he learned that sacred science which rendered him afterward a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. \nSt. Polycarp cultivated his rising genius\, and formed his mind to piety by precepts and example; and the zealous scholar was careful to reap all the advantages which were offered him by the happiness of such a master. Such was his veneration for his tutor’s sanctity that he observed every action and whatever be saw in that holy man\, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor\, and so deeply did he engrave them on his heart that the impressions remained most lively even to his old age. \nIn order to confute the heresies of his age\, this father made himself acquainted with the most absurd conceits of their philosophers\, by which means he was qualified to trace up every error to its sources and set it in its full light. St. Polycarp sent St. Irenæus into Gaul\, in company with some priest; he was himself ordained priest of the Church of Lyons by St. Pothinus. St. Pothinus having glorified God by his happy death\, in the year 177\, our Saint was chosen the second Bishop of Lyons. \nBy his preaching\, he in a short time converted almost that whole country to the Faith. He wrote several works against heresy\, and at last\, with many others\, suffered martyrdom about the year 202\, under the Emperor Severus\, at Lyons. \nReflection.—Fathers and mothers\, and heads of families\, spiritual and temporal\, should bear in mind that inferiors “will not be corrected by words” alone\, but that example is likewise needful. \nSaint Irenaeus\, Bishop and Martyr Memorial Gn 15:1-12\, 17-18/Mt 7:15-20 (373). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/irenaeus-of-lyons-614\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. IRENAEUS OF LYONS \n*Irenaeus (/ɪrɪˈneɪəs/; Greek: Εἰρηναῖος Eirēnaios; c. 130 – c. 202 AD) was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and\, more widely\, for the development of Christian theology by combating heresy and defining Catholic orthodoxy. Originating from Smyrna\, he had seen and heard the preaching of Polycarp\, who in turn was said to have heard John the Evangelist\, and thus was the last-known living connection with the Apostles.Chosen as bishop of Lugdunum\, now Lyon\, his best-known work is Against Heresies\, often cited as Adversus Haereses\, a refutation of gnosticism\, in particular that of Valentinus. To counter the doctrines of the gnostic sects claiming secret wisdom\, he offered three pillars of orthodoxy: the scriptures\, the tradition handed down from the apostles\, and the teaching of the apostles’ successors. Intrinsic to his writing is that the surest source of Christian guidance is the Church of Rome\, and he is the earliest surviving witness to regard all four of the now-canonical gospels as essential. \nHe is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church\, which celebrates his feast on 28 June\, and in the Eastern Orthodox Churches\, which celebrates the feast on 23 August. \nIrenaeus is honored in the Church of England and in the Episcopal Church on 28 June. Pope Francis declared Irenaeus the 37th Doctor of the Church on 21 January 2022. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus \n**Irenaeus was a famous Greek apologist against the Gnostic movements of early Christianity\, and the bishop of the Roman city of Lugdunum in the province of Gaul\, presently Lyon\, France. The foremost Christian theologian of the 2nd century\, he is best known for his work ‘Adversus Haereses’ (Against Heresies)\, written circa 180 AD. Almost all of his writings were denunciations of theological rivals that challenged the emerging Christian orthodoxy\, in concordance with the Church of Rome. He is credited with one of the earliest lists of the biblical canon that includes all the four gospels\, which is now part of the New Testament. He was also among the first to use the principle of apostolic succession to refute heretics and theological opponents – which professes that bishops are the direct and uninterrupted line of succession from the Apostles of Jesus Christ\, and that their exclusive authority and special powers were handed down to them from the apostles themselves. Irenaeus is arguably the most important link between the apostolic church and later Christianity\, as well as the obvious connection between eastern and western orthodoxies owing to his place of origin and his seminal work to strengthen the Catholic church. \n***Legacy \nIrenaeus is recognized as a martyr and a saint by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches\, and also considered a distinguished ‘Father of the Church’. The former celebrates ‘Irenaeus’ feast day’ on June 28\, and the latter\, on August 23. \nHe had a profound influence on the next generation of Christian theologians\, including Hippolytus and Tertullian. His writings were first translated to English by John Keble and published in 1872. \nWhile the Gnostics denied it\, Irenaeus upheld the validity of the Old Testament. Even though he did not actually refer to two different bibles in his writings\, he did pave the way for this terminology to be adopted by Judeo-Christian scholarship. \nModern scholars rely almost entirely on the writings of Irenaeus while reconstructing Gnostic teachings\, as he included in them a comprehensive review of Gnostic views before proceeding to refute them. The discovery of the Gnostic library near Najʿ Ḥammādī in Egypt in the 1940s confirmed the precision with which he reported Gnostic doctrines before attacking them. \nFor the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration\, not by its own choice\, but by the will of the one who subjected it\, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. \nRom 8:19–21
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SUMMARY:Saints Peter and Paul\, Apostles
DESCRIPTION:Saints Who Were Great Evangelizers \nSts. Peter and Paul–Peter and Paul laid the foundations of the early Church and are among the most venerated saints. Peter was the first to profess that Jesus is the Son of God\, and the papacy is built on his witness. \nPaul’s mission trips expanded the reach of the young Church\, and his writings articulate our faith. Both men were willing to bear witness to the point of death\, and both were martyred in Rome. \nLives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 29.—ST. PETER\, Apostle. \nPETER was of Bethsaida in Galilee\, and as he was fishing on the lake was called by Our Lord to be one of His apostles. \nHe was poor and unlearned\, but candid\, eager\, and loving. In his heart\, first of all\, grew up the conviction\, and from his lips came the confession\, “Thou art the Christ\, the Son of the living God;” and so Our Lord chose him\, and fitted him to be the Rock of His Church\, His Vicar on earth\, the head and prince of His apostles\, the center and very principle of the Church’s oneness\, the source of all spiritual powers\, and the unerring teacher of His truth. \nAll Scripture is alive with him; but after Pentecost he stands out in the full grandeur of his office. He fills the vacant apostolic throne; admits the Jews by thousands into the fold; opens it to the Gentiles in the person of Cornelius; founds\, and for a time rules\, the Church at Antioch\, and sends Mark to found that of Alexandria. \nTen years after the Ascension he went to Rome\, the center of the majestic Roman Empire\, where were gathered the glories and the wealth of the earth and all the powers of evil. There he established his Chair\, and for twenty-five years labored with St. Paul in building up the great Roman Church. \nHe was crucified by order of Nero\, and buried on the Vatican Hill. He wrote two Epistles\, and suggested and approved the Gospel of St. Mark. \nTwo hundred and sixty years after St. Peter’s martyrdom came the open triumph of the Church. Pope St. Sylvester\, with bishops and clergy and the whole body of the faithful\, went through Rome in procession to the Vatican Hill\, singing the praises of God till the seven hills rang again. \nThe first Christian emperor\, laying aside his diadem and his robes of state\, began to dig the foundations of St. Peter’s Church. And now on the site of that old church stands the noblest temple ever raised by man; beneath a towering canopy lie the great apostles\, in death\, as in life\, undivided; and there is the Chair of St. Peter. \nAll around rest the martyrs of Christ—Popes\, Saints\, Doctors\, from east and west—and high over all\, the words\, “Thou art Peter\, and on this Rock I will build My Church.” It is the threshold of the apostles and the center of the world. \nReflection.—Peter still lives on in his successors\, and rules and feeds the flock committed to him. The reality of our devotion to him is the surest test of the purity of our faith. \nSaints Peter and Paul\, Apostles \nJune 29\, 2023 \nSaints Peter and Paul\, Apostles Solemnity Vigil: Acts 3:1-10/Gal 1:11-20/Jn 21:15-19 (590) Day: Acts 12:1-11/2 Tm 4:6-8\, 17-18/Mt 16:13-19 (591) Pss Prop \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/peter-729\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. PETER \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/paul-723\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. PAUL \n*Sts. Peter & Paul Under Discussion – Rembrandt. (see above) \nThe two great apostles\, Saints Peter and Paul\, converse about Scripture. Artwork by Rembrandt. \n*Why are St. Peter and Paul celebrated together? St. Peter and Paul’s day is the feast day that honors the martyrdom of the two saints\, sometime between AD 64 and 68. While the church recognizes that they may not have died on the same day\, tradition says that this is the day that they were both martyred in Rome by Emperor Nero. \nThe day is a solemnity or a feast day of the highest rank. This honor is reserved for only the most important events\, like events in the lives of Jesus or Mary. Therefore this emphasizes just how important the two saints are to the Catholic faith. The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul\, which is observed on 29 June. The celebration is of ancient Christian origin\, the date selected being the anniversary of either their death or the translation of their relics. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul \n**Saint Peter (died between AD 64 and 68)\, also known as Peter the Apostle\, Peter the Rock\, Simon Peter\, Simeon\, Simon\, or Cephas\, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ\, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. He is traditionally counted as the first bishop of Rome‍—‌or pope‍—‌and also as the first bishop of Antioch. Based on contemporary historical data\, his papacy is estimated to have spanned from AD 30 to his death\, which would make him the longest-reigning pope\, at anywhere from 34 to 38 years; however\, the length of his reign has never been verified. According to Christian tradition\, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. The ancient Christian churches all venerate Peter as a major saint and as the founder of the Church of Antioch and the Church of Rome\, but differ in their attitudes regarding the authority of his successors. According to Catholic teaching\, Jesus promised Peter a special position in the Church. \nIn the New Testament\, the name “Simon Peter” is found 19 times. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles. He is the brother of Saint Andrew\, and both were fishermen. The Gospel of Mark in particular was traditionally thought to show the influence of Peter’s preaching and eyewitness memories. He is also mentioned\, under either the name Peter or Cephas\, in Paul‘s First Letter to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Galatians. The New Testament also includes two general epistles\, First Peter and Second Peter\, that are traditionally attributed to him\, but modern scholarship generally rejects the Petrine authorship of both. Nevertheless\, Evangelicals and Catholics have always affirmed Peter’s authorship\, and recently\, a growing number of scholars have revived the claim of Petrine authorship of these epistles. \nOutside of the New Testament\, several apocryphal books were later attributed to him\, in particular the Acts of Peter\, Gospel of Peter\, Preaching of Peter\, Apocalypse of Peter\, and Judgment of Peter\, although scholars believe these works to be pseudoepigrapha. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter \n***Christ Handing Saint Peter the Keys of Heaven – Reni \n \n***Our Lord hands the keys to His kingdom to the kneeling St. Peter in this artwork by G. Reni. \nLives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJune 29.—ST. PAUL. \n\nPAUL was born at Tarsus\, of Jewish parents\, and studied at Jerusalem\, at the feet of Gamaliel.\n\nWhile still a young man\, he held the clothes of those who stoned the proto-martyr Stephen; and in his restless zeal he pressed on to Damascus\, “breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of Christ.” \nBut near Damascus a light from heaven struck him to the earth. He heard a voice which said\, “Why persecutes thou Me? ” He saw the form of Him Who had been crucified for his sins\, and then for three days he saw nothing more. He awoke from his trance another man—a new creature in Jesus Christ. \nHe left Damascus for a long retreat in Arabia\, and then\, at the call of God\, he carried the Gospel to the uttermost limits of the world\, and for years he lived and labored with no thought but the thought of Christ crucified\, no desire but to spend and be spent for Him. \nHe became the apostle of the Gentiles\, whom he had been taught to hate\, and wished himself anathema for his own countrymen\, who sought his life. Perils by land and sea could not damp his courage\, nor toil and suffering and age dull the tenderness of his heart. \nAt last he gave blood for blood. In his youth he had imbibed the false zeal of the Pharisees at Jerusalem\, the holy city of the former dispensation. With St. Peter he consecrated Rome\, our holy city\, by his martyrdom\, and poured into its Church all his doctrine with all his blood. \nHe left fourteen Epistles\, which have been a fountain-head of the Church’s doctrine\, the consolation and delight of her greatest Saints. \nHis interior life\, so far as words can tell it\, lies open before us in these divine writings\, the life of one who has died forever to himself and risen again in Jesus Christ. “In what\,” says St. Chrysostom\, “in what did this blessed one gain an advantage over the other apostles? How comes it that he lives in all men’s mouths throughout the world? Is it not through the virtue of his Epistles?” Nor will his work cease while the race of man continues. Even now\, like a most chivalrous knight\, he stands in our midst\, and takes captive every thought to the obedience of Christ. \nReflection.—St. Paul complains that all seek the things which are their own\, and not the things which are Christ’s. See if these words apply to you\, and resolve to give yourself without reserve to God. \n****Saint Paul (previously called Saul of Tarsus; c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD)\, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul\, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age\, he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD. \nAccording to the New Testament book Acts of the Apostles\, Paul was a Pharisee. He participated in the persecution of early disciples of Jesus\, possibly Hellenised diaspora Jews converted to Christianity\, in the area of Jerusalem\, prior to his conversion. Some time after having approved of the execution of Stephen\, Paul was traveling on the road to Damascus so that he might find any Christians there and bring them “bound to Jerusalem” (ESV). At midday\, a light brighter than the sun shone around both him and those with him\, causing all to fall to the ground\, with the risen Christ verbally addressing Paul regarding his persecution. Having been made blind\, along with being commanded to enter the city\, his sight was restored three days later by Ananias of Damascus. After these events\, Paul was baptized\, beginning immediately to proclaim that Jesus of Nazareth was the Jewish messiah and the Son of God. Approximately half of the content in the book of Acts details the life and works of Paul. \nFourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of the Pauline epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic\, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder. Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews is not asserted in the Epistle itself and was already doubted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It was almost unquestioningly accepted from the 5th to the 16th centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews\, but that view is now almost universally rejected by scholars. The other six are believed by some scholars to have come from followers writing in his name\, using material from Paul’s surviving letters and letters written by him that no longer survive. Other scholars argue that the idea of a pseudonymous author for the disputed epistles raises many problems. \nToday\, Paul’s epistles continue to be vital roots of the theology\, worship and pastoral life in the Latin and Protestant traditions of the West\, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox traditions of the East. Paul’s influence on Christian thought and practice has been characterized as being as “profound as it is pervasive\,” among that of many other apostles and missionaries involved in the spread of the Christian faith. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle \n*****St. Paul Writing – Sacchi \n \n*****Saint Paul\, the Patron Saint of Missionaries and Theologians\, writes his Epistles while contemplating the Crucifix. \nPaul’s sword\, representing his martyrdom\, stands near by in this artwork by P. Sacchi.  \nBut I will sing of your strength\, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress\, my refuge in times of trouble. You are my strength\, I sing praise to you; you\, God\, are my fortress\, my God on whom I can rely.   \nPs 59:16–17
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SUMMARY:The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
DESCRIPTION:The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church \nJune 30\, 2023 \nWeekday The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Gn 17:1\, 9-10\, 15-22/Mt 8:1-4 (375). \n*Young Christian Martyr – Delaroche (see above painting) \nA pale young woman\, wearing a white dress\, drowns with tied hands for her Faith. A bright halo floats above the martyr’s head. In the darkness behind the woman\, two dark figures\, possibly the martyr’s parents\, stand embracing each other on a dark cliff. A few orange gleams of sunlight show in the sky. Artwork by nineteenth-century artist\, P. Delaroche. \n**The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero‘s persecution in 64. The event is recorded by both Tacitus and Pope Clement I\, among others. They are celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as an optional memorial on 30 June. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Martyrs_of_the_Church_of_Rome \n***According to early Christian tradition[edit] \nWith some historical attestation within a hundred years of the event[edit] \n\nPolycarp of Smyrna[16]\nJustin Martyr[17]\nScillitan Martyrs[18]\nPerpetua and Felicity[19]\nPtolemaeus and Lucius[20]\nPothinus\, bishop of Lyon\, with Blandina and several others\, the “Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne“[21][22]\nPope Fabian[23]\nSebastian[24]\nShmona and Gurya[25]\nAgnes of Rome[26]\nFelix and Adauctus[27]\nMarcellinus and Peter[28]\nForty Martyrs of Sebaste[29]\nEuphemia[30]\nCyprian[31]\n\nWith some historical attestation more than a hundred years after the event[edit] \n\nSaint Alban[32]\nIgnatius of Antioch[33]\nGelasinus[34]\nSaint Pancras[35]\nSaint Valentine[36]\nSaint Petronilla[37]\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs \nAt that time Jesus said\, “I praise you\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned\, and revealed them to little children.”   \nMt 11:25
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SUMMARY:Saint Junípero
DESCRIPTION:Weekday Saint Junípero Serra\, Priest; BVM Gn 18:1-15/Mt 8:5-17 (376). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/junpero-serra-408\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. JUNÍPERO SERRA \n*Saint Junípero Serra\, O.F.M. \nFounder of the Spanish missions in California\nAs a young man in Spain\, Blessed Junípero Serra joined the Franciscan order and began a short career as a professor\, famous for his preaching. When he was thirty-five\, he suddenly began to yearn for the life of a missionary in the New World. He left everything behind and boarded a ship bound for Vera Cruz\, Mexico. On his way to Mexico City\, an insect bite infected his leg so badly that walking pained him for the rest of his life. Among his many great accomplishments as a missionary are listed two particularly: It was he whose insistence and dedication brought about the “Regulation” protecting the Native Americans and the missions. He is also known for founding the great mission of San Juan Capistrano\, in California. He founded 21 missions and taught the Native Americans many trades\, from farming to crafting. \n\nBlessed Junipero Serra\n\n**Junípero Serra y Ferrer O.F.M. (/huːˈniːpəroʊ ˈsɛrə/; Spanish: [xuˈnipeɾo ˈsera]; Catalan: Juníper Serra i Ferrer; November 24\, 1713 – August 28\, 1784) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda\, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He later founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco\, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias\, New Spain.Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 25 September 1988 in Vatican City. Amid denunciations from Native American tribes who accused Serra of presiding over a brutal colonial subjugation\, Pope Francis canonized Serra on 23 September 2015 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington\, D.C.\, during his first visit to the United States. Serra’s missionary efforts earned him the title of “Apostle of California”. \nBoth before and after his canonization\, Serra’s reputation and missionary work during the Spanish occupation have been condemned by critics\, who cite alleged mandatory conversions to Catholicism\, followed by abuse of the Native American converts. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%C3%ADpero_Serra \nPeople will come from east and west and north and south\, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. Indeed there are those who are last who will be first\, and first who will be last.   \nLk 13:29–30
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Chief Steward at the Marriage of Cana – Veronese
DESCRIPTION:This is an image of the chief steward tasting the fine wine that Our Lord miraculously made from water at the Marriage of Cana. This artwork is by P. Veronese. \nJn 2:1-11 \nThe Wedding at Cana. \n1* On the third day there was a wedding* in Cana* in Galilee\, and the mother of Jesus was there.a \n2Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. \n3When the wine ran short\, the mother of Jesus said to him\, “They have no wine.” \n4* [And] Jesus said to her\, “Woman\, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.”b \n5His mother said to the servers\, “Do whatever he tells you.”c \n6* Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings\,d each holding twenty to thirty gallons. \n7Jesus told them\, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. \n8Then he told them\, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.”* So they took it. \n9And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine\, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew)\, the headwaiter called the bridegroom \n10and said to him\, “Everyone serves good wine first\, and then when people have drunk freely\, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” \n11Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs* in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory\, and his disciples began to believe in him.e \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/2 \nThe Wedding Feast at Cana (1562-3) \nBackground \n*Ranked among the leading Old Masters of Mannerist painting\, Paolo Veronese is noted in particular for his enormous banquet-scenes\, such as: Supper in Emmaus (1560)\, Wedding Feast at Cana (1563)\, Feast in the House of Simon (1570-2\, Sabauda Gallery\, Turin)\, Supper in the House of Gregory the Great (1572\, Monte Berico\, Vicenza)\, and Feast in the House of Levi (1573). These large decorative paintings – modern versions of the old “telero” or “scuola” paintings – gave Veronese ample opportunity to demonstrate his virtuoso figure painting and use of colour and established him as one of the great contributors to Venetian painting of the 16th century. During his mature period he managed to combine the colourism of Titian with the monumental forms used in Rome\, to create a sumptuous style of painting decorated with dazzling costumes and colour. See also: Titian and Venetian colour painting (1500-76). The Wedding at Cana is his great masterpiece of Biblical art and arguably one of the most ‘modern’ religious paintings of the cinquecento. The huge work (roughly 22 X 32 feet) was commissioned in 1562 for the refectory\, designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-80)\, in the Benedictine monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore\, Venice. The artist’s fee was 324 ducats\, plus board and lodging plus a barrel of wine. Helped by his brother\, Benedetto Caliari (1538-98)\, Veronese completed the huge painting in fifteen months. \nBiblical Theme \nThe theme of the painting is based on the Bible story told in St John’s Gospel (John 2:1-11)\, concerning a marriage held at Cana\, Galilee\, attended by Mary\, Jesus and his disciples. Towards the end of the wedding feast\, as the wine begins to run out\, Jesus asks that stone jars be filled with water which he then turns into wine. This episode – the first of the seven signs in the Gospel of John which attests to Jesus’s divine status – is a precursor of the Eucharist. It was a popular theme during the Italian Renaissance and during the Mannerist era: famous versions of the subject include: “Marriage at Cana” (1305\, Scrovegni Chapel) by Giotto; “Wedding at Cana” (1561\, Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute) by Tintoretto; “Marriage at Cana” (1566\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Budapest) by Giorgio Vasari. However\, unlike most conventional interpretations\, Veronese transposed the Bible story to the more modern setting of a typically extravagant Venetian wedding. \nAnalysis of The Wedding at Cana by Veronese \nVeronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana combines elements of several different styles\, adapting the Venetian colorito philosophy of Titian to the compositional disegno of the High Renaissance – exemplified by the work of Leonardo\, Raphael\, and Michelangelo. To this he added one or two characteristics of Mannerism\, as well as a quantity of allegorical and symbolic features. \nThe content of the painting also consists of a complex mixture of the sacred and the profane\, religious and secular\, theatrical and mundane\, European and Oriental. Depicted in the grand style of contemporary Venetian society\, the banquet takes place within a courtyard flanked by Doric and Corinthian columns and bordered by a low balustrade. In the distance can be seen an arcaded tower\, designed by the Padua-born architect Andrea Palladio. In the centre-foreground\, a group of musicians are playing various lutes and stringed instruments. The musical figures include the four great painters of Venice: Veronese himself (dressed in white\, playing the viola da gamba)\, Jacopo Bassano (on flute)\, Tintoretto (violin)\, and Titian (dressed in red\, playing the violoncello). \nThe diners at the nuptial table – all waiting for wine to be served for the dessert course of the meal – include: the bride and groom (seated at the left end of the table)\, Jesus Christ (centre of the table)\, surrounded by Mary and the Apostles\, along with a bewildering array of royalty\, noblemen\, officials\, clerks\, servants\, and others\, representing a cross-section of Venetian society and dressed variously in Biblical\, Venetian or Oriental outfits and adorned with sumptuous coiffures and items of jewellery. Numerous historical figures appear in The Wedding Feast at Cana including: Emperor Charles V\, Eleanor of Austria\, Francis I of France\, Mary I of England\, Suleiman the Magnificent\, Vittoria Colonna\, Giulia Gonzaga\, Cardinal Pole\, and Sokollu Mehmet Pasa. In all\, some 130 unique figures are depicted. \nThe detail in the painting is staggering. Above Jesus\, on the elevated walkway on the other side of the ballustrade\, a butcher is cutting up meat; while a porter (right) arrives with more supplies. At the foot of the picture\, a barefoot manservant (right) pours red wine from a large\, ornate cask into a pitcher. Standing behind the servant\, studying the contents of his wine glass is Benedetto Caliari (Veronese’s brother). A black-skinned\, servant boy (far-left) offers a glass of wine to the bridegroom; behind him\, a dwarf is holding a bright green parrot. Note the detail of the cutlery and dishes laid out on the table – each place setting\, for example\, consists of a napkin\, knife and fork. And see the little brown and white dog standing on the table to the right of Benedetto Caliari. Notice also the dog (top-left) poking its nose through the balustrade\, and the cat (right) playing on its back on the right. \nNOTE: While many figures in the picture interact with one another\, none of them are actually speaking. This is to comply with the code of silence observed by all Benedictine monks in the refectory where the painting was to hang. \nSymbolism \nThe Wedding Feast at Cana contains a wealth of symbolism. The entire work\, for instance\, symbolizes the interplay between earthly pleasure and earthly mortality. Behind the balustrade\, above the figure of Jesus\, an animal is being slaughtered\, an allusion to the forthcoming sacrifice of Jesus\, as the Lamb of God – a reference which is supported by the dog who is chewing a bone at the foot of the painting. Meanwhile\, to the left of Jesus\, The Virgin Mary cups her hands to represent a glass that will contain the new wine – that is\, the Blood of Christ. In addition\, set in front of the musicians is an hourglass\, a standard reference to the transience of earthly pleasures including human vanity. (See Vanitas Painting\, 17th century.) \nWhile much of this magnificent work of Christian art is devoted to expressing the joy of life as well as the achievements and splendours of the Venetian Republic\, Veronese is careful to place Jesus centre-stage. In fact\, not only is the haloed Christ given the prime position in the central span of the banquet table\, but he is the only figure in the entire canvas who looks directly at the viewer. \nVeronese’s Renaissance colour palette makes a massive contribution to the power and grandeur of the painting\, and to the delineation and characterization of its figures. His glowing colours include the hugely expensive lapis lazuli blues\, imported along the Silk Route from the mines of Afghanistan; as well as yellow-oranges\, burning reds\, and Verdigris blue-greens. Due to a recent 3-year restoration program at the Louvre\, many of the hues have regained their original brilliance. It was no coincidence that Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)\, the greatest colourist painter during the era of Baroque painting\, owned a number of pictures by Veronese\, which he kept in his studio. \nReception \nVeronese’s interpretation of the Biblical story of The Wedding at Cana caused a huge scandal among Venetian society. His emphasis on the hedonistic aspects of a marriage banquet\, at the expense of the pious aspects of the occasion\, ran counter to the religious sensibilities of the 16th century Republic of Venice. Undeterred by the controversy\, Veronese produced an equally contentious “Last Supper” (1573)\, which so offended ‘public taste’ that a tribunal of the Inquisition ordered him to make a number of alterations. He refused and simply retitled the painting\, The Feast in the House of Levi (1573\, Venice Academy Gallery). \nhttps://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/the-language-of-the-banquet-reconsidering-paolo-veroneses-wedding-at-cana/ \n**Veronese’s painted banquet\, eternally preserved in crisp detail and vivid color\, was carefully designed to surpass the ephemeral banquets of the outside world. \nI instruct you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths. When you walk\, your steps will not be hampered; when you run\, you will not stumble. \nPrv 4:11–12
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SUMMARY:Saint Thomas\, Apostle
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \n—ST. THOMAS\, Apostle. \n\nTHOMAS was one of the fishermen on the Lake of A Galilee whom Our Lord called to be His apostles.\n\nBy nature slow to believe\, too apt to see difficulties\, and to look at the dark side of things\, he had withal a most sympathetic\, loving\, and courageous heart. \nOnce when Jesus spoke of the mansions in His Father’s house\, St. Thomas\, in his simplicity\, asked: “Lord\, we know not whither Thou goest\, and how can we know the way?” \nWhen Jesus turned to go toward Bethany to the grave of Lazarus\, the desponding apostle at once feared the worst for his beloved Lord\, yet cried out bravely to the rest: “Let us also go and die with Him” \nAfter the Resurrection\, incredulity again prevailed\, and whilst the wounds of the crucifixion were imprinted vividly on his affectionate mind\, he would not credit the report that Christ had indeed risen. But at the actual sight of the pierced hands and side\, and the gentle rebuke of his Savior\, unbelief was gone forever; and his faith and ours has ever triumphed in the joyous utterance into which he broke: “My Lord and my God!” \nReflection.—Cast away all disquieting doubts\, and learn to triumph over old weaknesses as St. Thomas did\, who “by his ignorance hath instructed the ignorant\, and by\, his incredulity hath served for the faith of all ages.” \nSaint Thomas\, Apostle Feast Eph 2:19-22/Jn 20:24-29 (593) Pss Prop. \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/thomas-784\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. THOMAS \n*The Incredulity of Saint Thomas – Guercino. \nThe doubting apostle Thomas\, who must put his hands into the side of Our Lord in order to believe that the Savior is risen\, is given this chance by Christ\, with the words: “Blessed are they that have not seen\, and have believed”.  Artwork by Guercino. \n**Thomas the Apostle (Aramaic: 𐡀𐡌𐡅𐡕𐡌\, Biblical Hebrew: תוֹמא הקדוש or תוֹמָא שליחא (Toma HaKadosh Thomas the Holy or Toma Shlikha Thomas the Messenger/Apostle in Hebrew-Aramaic)\, Classical Syriac: ܬܐܘܡܐ\, Tʾōmā\, meaning “twin”; Koinē Greek: Θωμᾶς)\, also known as Didymus (“twin”)\, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as “Doubting Thomas” because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus Christ when he was told of it (as is related in the Gospel of John alone); he later confessed his faith (“My Lord and my God”) on seeing the wounds left over from the crucifixion. \nAccording to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of modern-day Kerala in India\, Thomas travelled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel\, travelling as far as the Tamilakam which is in South India\, and reached Muziris of Tamilakam (modern-day North Paravur and Kodungalloor in Kerala State\, India) in AD 52. In 1258\, some of the relics were brought to Ortona\, in Abruzzo\, Italy\, where they have been held in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle. He is regarded as the patron saint of India among its Christian adherents\, and the Feast of Saint Thomas on July 3 is celebrated as Indian Christians’ Day. The name Thomas remains quite popular among the Saint Thomas Christians of the Indian subcontinent. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle \nI am confident of this\, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. \nPhil 1:6\, NRSV
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Samson Destroying the Philistines – Giordano
DESCRIPTION:Samson\, with the strength of God in him\, defeats the Philistine army\, armed with only a donkey’s jawbone. Artwork by Giordano. \nJgs 15:1-20 \nSamson Defeats the Philistines. \n1After some time\, in the season of the wheat harvest\, Samson visited his wife\, bringing a young goat. But when he said\, “Let me go into my wife’s room\,” her father would not let him go in. \n2He said\, “I thought you hated her\, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is better; you may have her instead.” \n3Samson said to him\, “This time I am guiltless if I harm the Philistines.” \n4So Samson went and caught three hundred jackals\, and turning them tail to tail\, he took some torches and tied one between each pair of tails. \n5He then kindled the torches and set the jackals loose in the standing grain of the Philistines\, thus burning both the shocks and standing grain\, the vineyards and olive groves. \n6a When the Philistines asked\, “Who has done this?” they were told\, “Samson\, the son-in-law of the Timnite\, because his wife was taken and given to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and destroyed her and her family by fire.b \n7Samson said to them\, “If this is how you act\, I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you.” \n8And he struck them hip and thigh—a great slaughter. Then he went down and stayed in a cleft of the crag of Etam. \n9The Philistines went up and encamped in Judah\, deploying themselves against Lehi.c \n10When the men of Judah asked\, “Why have you come up against us?” they answered\, “To take Samson prisoner; to do to him as he has done to us.” \n11Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the crag of Etam and said to Samson\, “Do you not know that the Philistines are our rulers? Why\, then\, have you done this to us?” He answered them\, “As they have done to me\, so have I done to them.” \n12They said to him\, “We have come down to bind you and deliver you to the Philistines.” Samson said to them\, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.” \n13“No\,” they replied\, “we will only bind you and hand you over to them. We will certainly not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the crag. \n14When he reached Lehi\, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him\,d the spirit of the LORD rushed upon him: the ropes around his arms became like flax that is consumed by fire\, and his bonds melted away from his hands. \n15Coming upon the fresh jawbone of an ass\, he reached out\, grasped it\, and with it killed a thousand men.e \n16Then Samson said\, \n“With the jawbone of an ass \nI have piled them in a heap; \nWith the jawbone of an ass \nI have slain a thousand men.” \n17As he finished speaking he threw the jawbone from him; and so that place was named Ramath-lehi.* \n18Being very thirsty\, he cried to the LORD and said\, “You have put this great victory into the hand of your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” \n19Then God split the cavity in Lehi\, and water issued from it\, and Samson drank till his spirit returned and he revived. Hence it is called En-hakkore* in Lehi to this day. \n20Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.f \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/judges/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. \nWhat\, then\, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us\, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son\, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also\, along with him\, graciously give us all things?   \nRom 8:31–32
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SUMMARY:Saint Anthony Zaccaria & Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
DESCRIPTION:Lives of the Saints \nby Alban Butler\, Benziger Bros. edition \n[1894] \nJuly 8.—ST. ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL. \nELIZABETH was born in 1271. \nShe was daughter of Pedro III. of Arragon\, being named after her aunt\, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. At twelve years of age she was given in marriage to Denis\, King of Portugal\, and from a holy child became a saintly wife. She heard Mass and recited the Divine Office daily\, but her devotions were arranged with such prudence that they interfered with no duty of her state. \nShe prepared for her frequent communions by severe austerities\, fasting thrice a week\, and by heroic works of charity. She was several times called on to make peace between her husband and her son Alphonso\, who had taken up arms against him. \nHer husband tried her much\, both by his unfounded jealousy and by his infidelity to herself. A slander affecting Elizabeth and one of her pages made the king determine to slay the youth\, and he told a lime-burner to cast into his kiln the first page who should arrive with a royal message. \nOn the day fixed the page was sent; but the boy\, who was in the habit of hearing Mass daily\, stopped on his way to do so. \nThe king\, in suspense\, sent a second page\, the very originator of the calumny\, who\, coming first to the kiln\, was at once cast into the furnace and burned. Shortly after\, the first page arrived from the church\, and took back to the king the lime-burner’s reply that his orders had been fulfilled. \nThus hearing Mass saved the page’s life and proved the queen’s innocence. Her patience\, and the wonderful sweetness with which she even cherished the children of her rivals\, completely won the king from his evil ways\, and he became a devoted husband and a truly Christian king. \nShe built many charitable institutions and religious houses\, among others a convent of Poor Clares. After her husband’s death\, she wished to enter their Order; but being dissuaded by her people\, who could not do without her\, she took the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis\, and spent the rest of her life in redoubled austerities and almsgiving. She died at the age of sixty-five\, while in the act of making peace between her children. \nReflection.—In the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar St. Elizabeth daily found strength to bear with sweetness suspicion and cruelty; and by that same Holy Sacrifice her innocence was proved. What succor do we forfeit by neglect of daily Mass! \nSaint Anthony Zaccaria\, Priest; Saint Elizabeth of Portugal Gn 21:5\, 8-20a/Mt 8:28-34 (379). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/antonio-maria-zaccaria-475\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ANTONIO MARIA ZACCARIA \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/elizabeth-of-portugal-551\nCATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL \n*Anthony Maria Zaccaria\, CRSP (Italian: Antonio Maria Zaccaria; 1502 – 5 July 1539) was an early leader of the Counter Reformation\, the founder of religious orders (Barnabites) and a promoter of the devotion to the Passion of Christ\, the Eucharist and the renewal of the religious life among the laity. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church\, which celebrates his feast day on 5 July. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Zaccaria \n**Saint Elizabeth of Portugal is a 1630-1635 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán of Queen Saint Elizabeth of Portugal\, daughter of Peter III of Aragon and wife of Denis of Portugal. She was known for her generosity\, and the painting depicts the queen in the legendary “miracle of the roses”\, when she was able to turn bread into roses\, which she intended to give to the poor\, after being asked by her husband about what she was hiding. Since 1818\, the painting has been in the Prado Museum in Madrid. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Elizabeth_of_Portugal_(Zurbar%C3%A1n) \nWe know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so\, but we ourselves\, who have the first fruits of the Spirit\, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship\, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we are saved. \nRom 8:22–24A \n 
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SUMMARY:Saint Maria Goretti
DESCRIPTION:Saint Maria Goretti\, Virgin and Martyr Gn 22:1b-19/Mt 9:1-8 (380). \nhttps://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/maria-goretti-685\n CATHOLICISM SAINTS ST. MARIA GORETTI \n*Maria Teresa Goretti (Italian: [maˈriːa teˈrɛːza ɡoˈretti]; October 16\, 1890 – July 6\, 1902) is an Italian virgin–martyr of the Catholic Church\, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine\, and the family had to share a house with another family\, the Serenellis. Maria took over household duties while her mother\, brothers and sister worked in the fields. One afternoon\, Alessandro\, the Serenellis’ 20-year-old son\, made sexual advances to her. When she refused to submit to him\, he stabbed her 14 times. She was taken to the hospital but she died forgiving him. He was arrested\, convicted and jailed. During imprisonment\, he repented. After 27 years\, he was released from prison and visited her mother to beg forgiveness\, which she granted. He later became a lay brother in a Capuchin monastery and died in 1970. She was beatified in 1947 and canonized in 1950. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion (Passionists). \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Goretti \nFor those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves\, so that you live in fear again; rather\, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.   \nRom 8:14–15A \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Samson and Delilah
DESCRIPTION:Delilah prepares to cut the hair of Samson\, which is the man’s source of superhuman strength from God\, in order to deliver him into the hands of the Philistines. Artwork by a follower of the artist L. Giordano. \nJgs 16:4–30 \nSamson\, Hebrew Shimshon\, legendary Israelite warrior and judge\, or divinely inspired leader\, renowned for the prodigious strength that he derived from his uncut hair. He is portrayed in the biblical Book of Judges (chapters 13–16). \nSamson’s incredible exploits\, as related in the biblical narrative\, hint at the weight of Philistine pressure on Israel during much of Israel’s early\, tribal period in Canaan (1200–1000 BCE). The biblical narrative\, only alluding to Samson’s “twenty years” activity as a judge\, presents a few episodes\, principally concerned with the beginning and the end of his activity. Before his conception\, his mother\, a peasant of the tribe of Dan at Zorah\, near Jerusalem\, was visited by an angel who told her that her son was to be a lifelong Nazirite—i.e.\, one dedicated to the special service of God\, usually through a vow of abstinence from strong drink\, from shaving or cutting the hair\, and from contact with a dead body. \nSamson possessed extraordinary physical strength\, and the moral of his saga relates the disastrous loss of his power to his violation of the Nazirite vow\, to which he was bound by his mother’s promise to the angel. He first broke his religious obligation by feasting with a woman from the neighboring town of Timnah\, who was also a Philistine\, one of Israel’s mortal enemies. Other remarkable deeds follow. For example\, he decimated the Philistines in a private war. On another occasion he repulsed their assault on him at Gaza\, where he had gone to visit a harlot. He finally fell victim to his foes through love of Delilah\, who beguiled him into revealing the secret of his strength: his long Nazirite hair. As he slept\, Delilah had his hair cut and betrayed him. He was captured\, blinded\, and enslaved by the Philistines\, but in the end God granted Samson his revenge; through the return of his old strength\, he demolished the great Philistine temple of the god Dagon\, at Gaza\, destroying his captors and himself. \nhttps://bible.usccb.org/bible/judges/16 \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. \nLet us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess\, for he who promised is faithful. \nHeb 10:23
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SUMMARY:*Sacred Scripture* Samson and Delilah – Rembrandt
DESCRIPTION:Delilah holds the shorn locks of Samson\, and with them\, his strength\, after she has seduced the man. Artwork by Rembrandt. \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson \nThe Bible Story \nAccording to the Old Testament of the Bible (Judges 16)\, Samson – the son of Manoah – was chosen by God to help the Israelites overcome their enemies\, the Philistines. In return for taking a vow not to shave or cut his hair (the Nazirite vow)\, Samson was given supernatural physical strength\, which he used to perform a variety of heroic feats. Unfortunately he then fell in love with the temptress Delilah\, in the Valley of Sorek. When the Philistines heard about this\, they bribed Delilah with 1\,100 shekels of silver to discover the secret of Samson’s strength. Eventually she discovers that his strength will disappear if his hair is cut\, so one night while Samson is asleep she calls for a servant to shave his hair\, after which the Philistines rush in and overpower him. Later\, Samson – whose hair has now regrown – gains his revenge by bringing down the pillars of the Philistine Temple of Dagon crushing his captors and himself. \nJgs 16:28-30 \n The Death of Samson \n 28Samson cried out to the LORD and said\, “Lord GOD\, remember me! Strengthen me only this once that I may avenge myself on the Philistines at one blow for my two eyes.” \n29Samson grasped the two middle columns on which the temple rested and braced himself against them\, one at his right\, the other at his left. \n30Then saying\, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Samson pushed hard\, and the temple fell upon the lords and all the people who were in it. Those he killed by his dying were more than those he had killed during his lifetime. \nThe story has been the subject of numerous religious paintings created during the era of Baroque art\, such as “Samson and Delilah” (1629-30\, Gemaldegalerie\, Berlin) by Rembrandt (1606-69); and “Samson and Delilah” (1654\, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg) by Guercino (1591-1666). \nMake Bad Decisions? Produce Bad Results. \nHere are some of the worst decisions to avoid at all cost. \n\n\n\nYou can control everything. Control is an illusion we feed ourselves when we things get out of hand. You have to let go of the control and allow things to fall apart so you can put them back together the way they were meant to be.\nYou won’t even try. There is a difference between giving up after a great effort and not even trying. Failure doesn’t come from falling down \, it comes from not trying.\nYou don’t have to deal with your problems. Running from your problems is never a way to win. Avoiding problems should never be the goal–instead\, think of problems as a chance to learn and do better.\nGoals aren’t that important. It’s one thing to have visions of the things you want\, but if you don’t define them and convert them to goals\, very little will get done. With goals\, you can make sure your actions each day take you closer to where you want to be.\nYou’re going to wait for the right… The right opportunity\, the right person\, the right time may never come\, so don’t make your success dependent on externals that you can’t control. Take the action you need to make things happen.\nYou can afford to neglect important relationships. Neglect is one of those things you don’t know you are doing until you discover that a relationship that was important to you no longer exists. Give the people you care about the gift of your attention.\nYou’ll change who you are so you can fit in. There is a great saying: If you want to lead the orchestra\, you must turn your back on the crowd. To succeed you have to be bold and dare to stand out from the crowd. Don’t try to fit in when you were born to stand out.\nYou’ll cut corners when it comes to excellence. Do everything you do with excellence because your success depends on your reputation. Cutting corners is never something you can make up later.\nRisks are too scary. Success is all about taking chances–those who don’t take chances don’t advance. Fear is part of the territory\, something you have to accept and move through. Nurture the positive and don’t feed the fear or let it keep you from what you want.\nYou can settle for mediocrity. There’s no such thing as overnight success\, really. Success is built on a lot of hard work and the refusal to compromise your standards.\nYou give up on yourself. It’s easy to find excuses for not making things happen\, but the minute you give up on yourself\, you have put a stop to your own success story. Be your own cheerleader; remind yourself that the struggle you’re in now is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.\nYou allow negativity from the past to linger. Even if your past gave you failures or problems\, you cannot allow it to govern the present. Every morning brings a new day; you can do things differently\, you can make different choices. The past cannot be changed or erased\, but it doesn’t have to be in charge.\nYou don’t hold respect. Respect for self and others is one of the things that make successful people stand out. Knowledge may give you power\, but respect gives you character.\nYou don’t need to practice gratitude. Gratitude has the ability to change your thinking. It reminds you to appreciate the things you have\, dissolves negativity and helps you see what you truly need. Success comes to those who are grateful for what they have achieved.\nYou can put up with toxic people. Look for relationship that are based on trust and respect\, because all relationships are the foundation for everything good in life. People who bring negativity and judgment into your life make it harder for you to get where you want to be.\nYou choose others in place of yourself. If you end up pleasing everyone but yourself\, you will never succeed. Period. One of the most important things you need to do is to choose yourself–not because you are perfect but because you know you can do better and you can always grow.\nBlame\, blame\, blame everybody else for problems.\nhttps://www.verywellmind.com/why-you-make-bad-decisions-2795489\n\n\n\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. \n5-Lesson learned? “What is the take away for us today? For me\, I am reminded that I can be very stubborn at times. I can be\, ‘I want to go my own way’\, instead of going God’s way. If I am not careful\, I can be a lot like Samson.” \nThe righteous cry out\, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. \nPs 34:17–18 \nFootnote: God’s plan for Samson was a surprising announcement made by the Angel of the Lord. Samson\, with God’s help\, was going to “begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines” (verse 5). Samson\, an ordinary man\, received supernatural strength from the one true God\, with the purpose of bringing hope and freedom to God’s people who were being crushed underneath an oppressive government. At the conclusion of Judges 16\, it is said that Samson had “judged” Israel for twenty years. Samson completed God’s plan\, “Thy will be done\,” the hard way. In the end\, like everyone\, Samson did some things right and he also made mistakes.
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