Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Saint John Bridlington (1319-1379); Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, Priest, and Saint Pedro Calungsod (-1672)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 17 The Number of Psalms to be Sung at These Hours
Mass: Rm 6:19-23; Resp Ps 1; Lk 12:49-53
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
NOT SO THE WICKED, NOT SO;
THEY ARE LIKE CHAFF WHICH THE WIND DRIVES AWAY.
FOR THE LORD WATCHES OVER THE WAY OF THE JUST,
BUT THE WAY OF THE WICKED VANISHES.
(Psalm 1:4-5)
An interesting tidbit about one of the saints we commemorate today, Saint John Bridlington, canonized by Pope Boniface IX in 1404, is that he was the last English saint to be canonized before the Reformation. We have another courageous Jesuit too, Diego Luis de Vitores, who entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 13. He and a lay catechist, himself a teenager, Pedro Calungsod, were brutally killed in 1672 by a village chief while serving as missionaries in Micronesia. It is as Jesus said: I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a house of five will be divided ... (Lk 12:49-53). United in faith and prayer, we keep going, no matter what or who comes our way. By God's grace, we are what we are.
SAINT JOHN BRIDLINGTON,
BLESSED DIEGO LUIS DE SAN VITORES,
SAINT PEDRO CALUNGSOD,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: You'll find colors like these in Garberville, CA.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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