{"id":1253,"date":"2016-08-30T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-faith-central-christian-update\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-08-30T01:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:26:22","slug":"catholic-mass-memorial-of-the-passion-of-saint-john-the-baptist-tuesday-8-29-16-video-scripture-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-faith-central-christian-update\/catholic-mass-memorial-of-the-passion-of-saint-john-the-baptist-tuesday-8-29-16-video-scripture-links\/","title":{"rendered":"CATHOLIC MASS: Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist &#8211; Tuesday 8.29.16 &#8211; Video, Scripture, Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-126 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-faith-central-christian-update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bible-200.jpg\" alt=\"Bible-200\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-faith-central-christian-update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bible-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-faith-central-christian-update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bible-200-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias &#8230; Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man &#8230; he liked to listen to him.&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;Lord, I love Your Commands&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;&#8230; my message &#8230; were not with persuasive words &#8230;but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your Faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the Power of God.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/041715.cfm\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/082916.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">MASS READINGS 8.29.16<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/2:1\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:97\">PSALM 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/6:17\">GOSPEL: Mark 6:17-29<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 <em><a title=\"http:\/\/www.masstimes.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masstimes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIND A MASS: MassTimes.org<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicdirectory.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicdirectory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FIND A MASS: TheCatholicDirectory.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- faith-wp-respons-2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3210937145558786\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5586646142\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"block-2\">\n<h4>DAILY TV MASS: Catholic TV &#8211; Boston<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/A4vtPC\/PMkhjfQLL3UA\/embed\/select\/media\/T4cUo40zgS0G\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block-2\">\n<h4>DAILY TV MASS: Toronto<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iq9RUAHdiQ\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- faith-wp-respons-2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3210937145558786\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5586646142\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h3>FIRST READING<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/2:1\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saint Paul explains to the Corinthians that his efforts to Proclaim the Gospel rested more on the reality of God&#8217;s Power than earthly argumentation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I came &#8230; proclaiming the Mystery of God,<br \/>\nI did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.<br \/>\n* * * &#8230; my message and my proclamation<br \/>\nwere not with persuasive words &#8230;<br \/>\nbut with a demonstration of spirit and power,<br \/>\nso that your Faith might rest not on human wisdom<br \/>\nbut on the Power of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Human intellect, itself a gift from God, has its place and is useful for helping us become better Disciples, and carry out God&#8217;s Mission for us in the temporal realm.\u00a0 Yet, in the end, reality is not hypothetical, and God is not an academic proposal.\u00a0 God is Real, All-Powerful and our Creator, the Source of all Existence.<\/p>\n<h3>RESPONSORIAL PSALM<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:97\">PSALM 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord, I love Your Commands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- faith-wp-respons-2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3210937145558786\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5586646142\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h3>GOSPEL<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/6:17\">GOSPEL: Mark 6:17-29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist, we encounter the narrative of John&#8217;s death from the Gospel of Mark.<\/p>\n<p>John the Baptist, of course, was a Herald of the Messiah, a cousin of Jesus, about six months older. He first Announced the Arrival of the Messiah through a baby&#8217;s kick, as a prenatal infant stirring in Elizabeth&#8217;s womb at the sound of Mary&#8217;s greeting, when Mary was carrying the newly Conceived, newly Incarnated Jesus in her own womb.<\/p>\n<p>The Baptist already has carried out his Mission of Baptism, calling for repentance and a return to God, and promising that the Messiah would soon emerge.<\/p>\n<p>While the corrupt, confused King Herod likes listening to Saint John the Baptist, and fears John&#8217;s Holiness, John also has preached against Herod&#8217;s marriage to Herodias, Herod&#8217;s brother&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison<br \/>\non account of Herodias,<br \/>\nthe wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married.<br \/>\nJohn had said &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;It is not lawful for you to have your brother\u2019s wife.&#8217;<br \/>\n* * *<br \/>\nHerod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man,<br \/>\nand kept him in custody.<br \/>\nWhen he heard him speak he was very much perplexed,<br \/>\nyet he liked to listen to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With John already in prison, Herod is so impressed by the trivial matter of a dance by Herodias&#8217;s daughter Salome that he blusters that he will give Salome anything.\u00a0 Having already formed an evil desire to kill John for opposing her immorality, Herodias prompts Salome to ask for John&#8217;s head on a platter. Herod proves to be as immature and emotionally infantile as he is bloodcurdlingly evil. Herod&#8217;s guests apparently are as morally insane and bloodthirsty as Herodias, because Herod decides that it will embarrass him in front of them if he does not follow through.\u00a0 So he has his men murder Saint John the Baptist.\u00a0 One of the greatest men to ever live is murdered by a pathetic nobody, an evildoer, for the sake of impressing some equally corrupt dinner guests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Herod &#8230; gave a banquet for his courtiers,<br \/>\nhis military officers, and the leading men of Galilee.<br \/>\nHerodias\u2019 own daughter came in<br \/>\nand performed a dance that delighted Herod and his guests.<br \/>\nThe king said to the girl,<br \/>\n&#8216;Ask of me whatever you wish and I will grant it to you.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8230; her mother &#8230; replied, &#8216;The head of John the Baptist.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe girl hurried back &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;I want you to give me at once<br \/>\non a platter the head of John the Baptist.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe king was deeply distressed,<br \/>\nbut because of his oaths and the guests<br \/>\nhe did not wish to break his word to her.<br \/>\nSo he promptly dispatched an executioner &#8230;.<br \/>\nHe brought in the head on a platter &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that the supposed leading men of Galilee, and Herod&#8217;s courtiers and military officers, are all apparently nuts.<\/p>\n<p>For them to be anything other than aghast at the sight of a decapitated head of an innocent man, and for Herod to think this evil atrocity is necessary to impress them, reveals that, in Galilee, &#8220;the lunatics are running the asylum.&#8221;\u00a0 Yet these people are not simply unbalanced individuals.\u00a0 They are murderous and thoroughly evil. And, recall that they are henchmen to an evil empire that is occupying the land, the ancient Romans.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible sometimes teaches by illustration.\u00a0 We see an instance of immoral madmen holding positions of responsibility and carrying out power in a structured manner, like &#8220;functional psychopaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We also see Herod exhibiting another kind of hybrid, multifaceted set of characteristics. Herod is not simply a vicious animal. He enjoys listening to John the Baptist. He recognizes and perceives that John is a holy and righteous man, and fears him for it. Herod agonizes over the notion of carrying out his hideous crime.\u00a0 Yet he does it anyhow.\u00a0 One wonders how many steps along the way weakened and perverted Herod&#8217;s judgment and conscience, that he ends up doing what he does.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, John&#8217;s disciples perform a Corporal Act of Mercy by burying the dead, coming to claim Saint John the Baptist&#8217;s body and taking it to lay it in a tomb.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- faith-wp-respons-2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3210937145558786\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5586646142\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><em title=\"http:\/\/www.masstimes.org\/\">[Scripture passages excerpted or adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/\" target=\"_blank\">the NABRE, available online from the USCCB<\/a>, which provides the following rights statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition \u00a9 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.]<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:50%; float:right;padding-left:15px;\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-7380954-5434248-1440532932000\" target=\"_top\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-7380954-5434248-1440532932000\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\r\n<\/div>\n<h3>LINKS &amp; RESOURCES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2016\/08\/sending-timothy-brief-summary-st-pauls-letters-thessalonians\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAITHLINK: \u201cI am Sending Timothy\u201d \u2013 A Brief Summary of St. Paul\u2019s Letters to the Thessalonians &#8211; Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dailymass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dailymass\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Daily Mass &#8211; Toronto<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/www.catholictv.com\/shows\/daily-mass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholictv.com\/shows\/daily-mass\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Daily Mass \u2013 Boston\/Catholic TV<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"padding:2px;\">\r\n<div style=\"float:left;\">\r\n<!---Catholic-Match---->\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/hi117efolfn2A6B3C87243A463A324759B9438C333\" target=\"_blank\" onmouseover=\"window.status='http:\/\/www.catholicmatch.com';return true;\" onmouseout=\"window.status=' ';return true;\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lduhtrp.net\/lg98wquiom7FBG8HDC798F9B8F879CAEGE98DH888\" alt=\"CatholicMatch.com - Grow in Faith, Fall in Love\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"float:right;padding-right:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-7380954-10751355-1453823028000\" target=\"_top\">\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-7380954-10751355-1453823028000\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- faith-wp-respons-2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3210937145558786\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5586646142\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"faitcent-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar_position = \"top\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"Search Results from Amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"Catholic\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"391041564bd57925a82770048c93e39d\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias &#8230; 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