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Saturday, June 30, 12th Week in Ordinary Time
THE PROTOMARTYRS OF ROME
"It is the annual feast of the sainted protomartyrs of the Holy Roman Church, who, blamed for the burning of the City, were ordered by the emperor Nero to be most savagely slain by means of different torments: some, covered with skins, were exposed to wild dogs and torn to pieces, others were crucified, and others delivered up to burning so that as daylight failed they served to illumine the night. All these were disciples of the Apostles and the first of the martyrs which the Roman Church entrusted to the Lord".
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/063012.cfm
Years ago, Father Z posted an excerpt from a sermon by St. Augustine that helps to contemplate vividly on all the martyrs of our faith:
When some festival of the martyrs falls due, perhaps, and some holy place is named at which all are to assemble to celebrate the solemn rites, remember how the throngs incite one another, how people encourage each other, saying, “Come on, let’s go!” Others ask, “Where are we going?” And they are told, “To that place, to the holy site.”
People talk to each other and catch fire with enthusiasm, and all the separate flames unite into a single flame. This one flame that springs up from the conversation of many people who enkindle one another seizes them all and sweeps them along to the holy place. Their devout resolve sanctifies them.
If, then, holy love energizes people and tugs them to a material place, what kind of love must it be that tugs persons united in heart toward heaven, as they say to each other, We are going to the Lord’s house?
Let’s run, let’s run fast, they say, for we are going to the Lord’s house! Let’s run and not weary, because we shall reach a place where fatigue will never touch us.
Let’s run to the Lord’s house, and let our soul be gladdened by those who tell us these things; for those who cheer us on have seen out homeland before we have, and they shout from afar to us latecomers, “We are going to the Lord’s house! Walk! Run!”
The apostles have seen it, and they exhort us, “Run, walk, follow: we are going to the Lord’s house!”
And what do we reply, every one of us? “I rejoice over those who told me, We are going to the Lord’s house. I rejoiced over the prophets and I rejoiced over the apostles, for all of them have told us, We are going to the Lord’s house.”
- AUGUSTINE, Bishop of Hippo (En. ps. 121.2)
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
The Holy Father met with
- Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (weekly meeting)
- Metropolitan Archbishops upon whom he imposed the Pallium yesterday, along with the families and
delegations. At Aula Paolo Vi. Multilingual address.
The Vatican Press Office also released:
- The Holy Father's appointment of three President Delegates for the forthcoming Assembly of the Bishops' Synod
to discuss the New Evangelization:
Cardinal John TONG HON, Vescovo di Hong Kong (CHina)
Cardinal Francisco ROBLES ORTEGA, Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico)
Cardinal Laurent MONSENGWO PASINYA, Archbishop of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- The nomination of Fr. Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J. (a Combonian missionary), to be Secretary of
the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialog. Until now, he was president of the Pontifiical Institute
for Arabic and Islamic Studies.
- The text of the Holy Father's letter designating Cardinal Joseph Zen, emeritus Bishop of HongKong,
to represent him at the celebration of the 100th birth anniversary of Blessed Peter ToRot, catechist
and martyr of Papua New Guinea, which will take place in Rabaul on July 7.
- The following announcement by the Pontifical Household:
The Holy Father Benedict XVI will be transferring for the summer to the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo on Tuesday afternoon, July 7.
Private audiences are suspended during this time. The Wednesday General Audiences will not be held in the month of July, but will resume on August 1 in Castel Gandolfo. On Sundays and religious holidays during the summer season, the Holy Father will lead the mid-day Angelus from the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 30/06/2012 19:28] |