CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Optional Memorial of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, October 5, Liturgical Texts & Liturgy of the Hours” – USCCB
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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos National Shrine”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Thursday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 10.5.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“Jesus appointed seventy-two other Disciples
whom He sent ahead of Him in pairs
to every town and place He intended to visit.
He said to them,
‘The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.
Go on your way;
behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;
and greet no one along the way. …'”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Saint Francis of Assisi – Benedict XVI General Audience 1.27.10” – VaticanVa
“… Dear friends, Francis was a great Saint and a joyful man. His simplicity, his humility, his faith, his love for Christ, his goodness towards every man and every woman, brought him gladness in every circumstance. Indeed, there subsists an intimate and indissoluble relationship between holiness and joy. A French writer once wrote that there is only one sorrow in the world: not to be saints, that is, not to be near to God. Looking at the testimony of St Francis, we understand that this is the secret of true happiness: to become saints, close to God! …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi, Wednesday 10.4.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“As Jesus and His Disciples were proceeding
on their journey, someone said to Jim,
‘I will follow You wherever you go.’
Jesus answered him,
‘Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest His Head.’…”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Tuesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 10.3.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“… they entered a Samaritan village
… but they would not welcome Him
because the destination of His Journey was Jerusalem.
When the Disciples James and John saw this they asked,
‘Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven
to consume them?’
Jesus turned and rebuked them,
and they journeyed to another village.”
NEXT SUNDAY: CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 10.8.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders …
“Hear another parable.
There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,
put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower.
Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
When vintage time drew near,
he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat,
another they killed, and a third they stoned.
Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones,
but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking,
‘They will respect my son.’ …”
CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Memorial of the Guardian Angels 10.2.17 – USCCB/NABRV
“The Disciples approached Jesus and said,
‘Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?’
He called a child over … and said,
‘Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,
you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whoever humbles himself like this child
is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
And whoever receives one child such as this in My Name receives Me. …'”
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Story of a Soul (l’Histoire d’une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux” – CCEL
CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[‘Obedient to the Father in the footsteps of the Son’] Meditation for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross” – Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]/ Institute of Carmelite Studies/ DailyGospel
“‘Your will be done!’ (Mt 6,10). This was the content of the Savior’s life. He came into the world to fulfill the Father’s will, not only to atone for the sin of disobedience through his obedience (Rom 5,19), but also to lead people back to their destiny by the way of obedience.
The created will is not destined to be free to exalt itself. It is called to come into unison with the divine will. If it freely submits itself to this unison, then it is permitted in freedom to participate in the perfection of creation. If a free creature declines this unison, it lapses into bondage. The human will continues to retain the possibility of choice, but it is constrained by creatures that pull and pressure it in directions straying from the development of the nature desired by God, and so away from the goal toward which it itself was directed by its original freedom. With the loss of this original freedom, it also loses security in making decisions. It becomes unsteady and wavering, buffeted by doubt and scruples or obdurate in its error. …”