August is the month dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In other years: Saints Pontian and Hippolytus (-235); Saint Fachtna or Fachanan of Ross, Ireland, Patron of the Diocese of Ross, probably the first bishop (6th century); Blessed William Freeman (-1595)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict for the Week: Ch 59 the Offering of Sons by Nobles or the Poor- Ch 63 Community Rank
Mass: 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a; Resp Ps 85; Rm 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33
Truth shall spring out of the earth.
QUEEN, ASSUMED INTO HEAVEN,
PRAY FOR US.
SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL,
PRAY FOR US.
SACRED HOST, GREATEST AID TO HOLINESS,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
HEART OF MARY, SEAT OF MERCY,
PRAY FOR US.
Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid.
(Mt 14: )
Welcome to the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary in our month dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in a week when we celebrate with solemnity the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Give God the praise. I saw a letter where the writer signed off: "In the heart of Jesus." Yes, we are in the heart of Jesus, and in the heart of His Mother our Queen, assumed into heaven.
With Jesus' words to the frightened disciples in today's Gospel, I am glad for the introduction to our bonus voice for the week, namely that of Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and words the priest prays after the Lord's Prayer, ones that I pray interiorly. The priest prays to the Lord that we may be "safe from all distress." Yes, dear Lord, you are with us. Please, dear Lord, keep us safe from all distress, and protect us from all anxiety as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And what does the great Saint Francis de Sales have to say? "Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray; He forbids you to worry." Please then, Lord, deliver us from every evil and graciously grant peace in our days. Kyrie, eleison.
In the hearts of Jesus and Mary, united in faith and prayer, we go forth, no matter how turbulent the waters that rock our boats, high the waves that toss us, and strong the winds that blow us.
And for this week's other voices.
You know the general principal: that God is everywhere. On the throne of His glory among the blessed indeed, but also throughout the whole universe which He fills, governs and preserves, ruling it by wisdom and grace. This we learn in our infancy, as of all of our memory in childhood. Yet in the practice of life, we live along as if we scarcely remembered that God sees us.
(Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1774-1821)
Apply yourself seriously because the years are passing by and we are getting old so we have to become wise.
(Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, 1901-1925)
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
(Saint John Vianney, 1786-1859)
Do not receive Christ in the Blessed Sacrament so that you may use Him as you judge best, but give yourself to Him and let Him receive you in this Sacrament, so the He Himself, God your savior, may do to you and through you whatever He wills.
(Saint Cajetan, 1480-1578)
In the face of anti-social and anti-Catholic schools, alternative schools must be opened whose mission is to direct, to define and distinguish good and evil; schools that may disarm the enemies by giving the true definition.
(Blessed Francisco Palau y Quer, 1811-1872)
This story told me that there is no limit to one's ability-certainly not age-to accomplish in life what one must. Within each individual in this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential of greatness. Yet it is rare that these hidden gifts are brought to life unless by the chance of fate.
(Velma Wallis, introduction in V. Wallis, Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival, Epicenter, 1993, p. xiii)
Relations became better between The People and the two women. Both learned that from hardship, a side of people emerged that they had not known. The People had thought themselves to be strong, yet they had been weak. And the two old ones whom they thought to be the most helpless and useless had proven themselves to be strong.
(Velma Wallis, Two Old Women, p. 117)
SAINTS PONTIAN AND HIPPOLYTUS
SAINT FACHNA,
BLESSED WILLIAM FREEMAN,
BLESSED MICHAEL MICGIVNEY,
SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE,
SAINT STEPHEN OF HUNGARY,
SAINT ROCK,
BLESSED MARIA SAGRARIO OF SAINT ALOYSIUS GONZAGA,
BLESSED ANGELUS MAZZINGHI,
SAINT CLARE OF MONTEFALCO,
BLESSED VICTORIA RASOAMANARIVO,
SAINT ALBERTO HURTADO CRUCHAGA,
BLESSEDS JOHN-BAPTIST DUVERNEUIL, MICHAEL-ALOYSIUS BURLARD AND JAMES GAGNOT,
SAINT JOHN EUDES,
SAINT HYACINTH,
BLESSED MARTYRS OF ROCHEFORT,
BLESSED GUERRIC, CISTERCIAN ABBOT,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: And justice shall look down from heaven.
© Gertrude Feick 2023
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