Saturday, October 19, 2024
Vinny’s Corner
· Today is Adventure Day: An adventure was what happened when you set out to take life by the hand and live it.
· Another pagan festival Pronouns Day St. Jogues is turning over in HIS grave.
· How to celebrate Oct 19th
o You wake up to a text from a friend suggesting an impromptu day of fun.
§ Afterwards, engage in some self-reflection for Evaluate Your Life Day. Think about your goals and make a plan to kickstart some positive changes.
§ Embrace Bridge Day by exploring a local bridge or hiking trail.
o Take a break to enjoy some seafood bisque for lunch in honor of National Seafood Bisque Day.
§ Then, spend the afternoon making new friends.
§ Strike up conversations with strangers or attend a local event for National New Friends Day.
§ Keep the good times rolling by playing fetch with your furry companion for National Fetch Day. The joy on their face is sure to brighten your day.
o As the sun sets, relax like a sloth for International Sloth Day. Give yourself permission to unwind and enjoy some leisurely activities.
§ Lastly, wrap up the evening by sipping on rakija as a nod to Rakija Day. Reflect on the day’s adventures and newfound friendships with gratitude. It may have been a motley assortment of celebrations, but the memories created will surely bring a smile to your face.
OCTOBER 19 Saturday-Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues
1 Chronicles, Chapter 14, Verse 17
Thus, David’s fame was spread
abroad through every land, and the LORD put the FEAR of him on all the nations.
Great
leaders are great followers of the Lord.
You're Going Down, Philistines[1]
·
Back in Jerusalem, David is sitting pretty. He
takes on a few more wives and they start producing princes and princesses.
·
Obviously, the Philistines are worried. They
just got rid of Saul and now some other more powerful, more holy, awesome king
has risen up in his place.
·
So, they set out to attack David.
·
But David (who's pretty smart) asks God what he
should do. God tells David it's okay to go out and crush the Philistine army.
·
And that's just what David does. Well, he
actually beats them into surrendering and then burns them alive, but still.
·
When Philistine soldiers attack again, David
consults God. This time, Yahweh gives him some specific battle directions and
David's victorious. God's pretty good at war games.
·
David's victories against the Philistines make
him famous and all the other nations start to fear Israel. That's just how
David and God like it.
Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues
Martyrs in North America[2]
Today in the dioceses of the United States the Church
celebrates the optional memorial of Sts. Issac Jogues and John de Brébeuf
(priests and martyrs) and their companions (martyrs). They were Jesuit
missionaries who died as martyrs in North America where they preached the
Gospel.
·
Pray
to the Holy Spirit to renew the evangelization of distant countries as well as
the re-evangelization of our own nation.
·
More
Christians have been martyred in the 20th century than in the previous nineteen
centuries combined. For example, pastors are being arrested and sometimes shot
in China and Cuba. Believers are forbidden to buy goods or own property in
Somalia. Christians who testify to their faith in Iran or Saudi Arabia may be
put to death for blasphemy. Mobs have wiped out whole villages of Christians in
Pakistan. Pray for courageous and zealous missionaries in these countries where
the Church is persecuted.
·
Support
the Indian Missions in the USA.
·
Visit
the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, New York. This site
offers a wonderful gallery of pictures of the shrine.
·
Learn more
about each of the martyrs. You might also like to read this definitive
scholarly biography, Saint Among Savages: The Life of St.
Isaac Jogues, by
Francis Talbot, S.J.
·
Learn
for Christmas the Indian Christmas Carol, the first American Christmas carol
John de Brébeuf wrote to teach the Christmas story to the Huron Indians.
1173 When the Church keeps the memorials of martyrs and other saints during the annual cycle, she proclaims the Paschal mystery in those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ. She proposes them to the faithful as examples who draw all men to the Father through Christ, and through their merits she begs for God's favors."
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
Day
128
Religious
life
925
Religious life was born in the East during the first centuries of Christianity.
Lived within institutes canonically erected by the Church, it is distinguished
from other forms of consecrated life by its liturgical character, public
profession of the evangelical counsels, fraternal life led in common, and
witness given to the union of Christ with the Church.
926
Religious life derives from the mystery of the Church. It is a gift she has
received from her Lord, a gift she offers as a stable way of life to the
faithful called by God to profess the counsels. Thus, the Church can both show
forth Christ and acknowledge herself to be the Savior's bride. Religious life
in its various forms is called to signify the very charity of God in the
language of our time.
927 All
religious, whether exempt or not, take their place among the collaborators of
the diocesan bishop in his pastoral duty. From the outset of the work of
evangelization, the missionary "planting" and expansion of the Church
require the presence of the religious life in all its forms. "History
witnesses to the outstanding service rendered by religious families in the
propagation of the faith and in the formation of new Churches: from the ancient
monastic institutions to the medieval orders, all the way to the more recent
congregations."
Secular
institutes
928 "A
secular institute is an institute of consecrated life in which the Christian
faithful living in the world strive for the perfection of charity and work for
the sanctification of the world especially from within."
929 By a
"life perfectly and entirely consecrated to [such] sanctification,"
the members of these institutes share in the Church's task of evangelization,
"in the world and from within the world," where their presence acts
as "leaven in the world." "Their witness of a Christian
life" aims "to order temporal things according to God and inform the
world with the power of the gospel." They commit themselves to the
evangelical counsels by sacred bonds and observe among themselves the communion
and fellowship appropriate to their "particular secular way of life."
Societies of
apostolic life
930
Alongside the different forms of consecrated life are "societies of
apostolic life whose members without religious vows pursue the particular
apostolic purpose of their society, and lead a life as brothers or sisters in
common according to a particular manner of life, strive for the perfection of
charity through the observance of the constitutions. Among these there are
societies in which the members embrace the evangelical counsels" according
to their constitutions.
Consecration
and mission: proclaiming the King who is corning
931 Already
dedicated to him through Baptism, the person who surrenders himself to the God
he loves above all else thereby consecrates himself more intimately to God's
service and to the good of the Church. By this state of life consecrated to
God, the Church manifests Christ and shows us how the Holy Spirit acts so
wonderfully in her. and so the first mission of those who profess the
evangelical counsels is to live out their consecration. Moreover, "since
members of institutes of consecrated life dedicate themselves through their
consecration to the service of the Church they are obliged in a special manner
to engage in missionary work, in accord with the character of the
institute."
932 In the
Church, which is like the sacrament - the sign and instrument - of God's own
life, the consecrated life is seen as a special sign of the mystery of
redemption. To follow and imitate Christ more nearly and to manifest more
clearly his self-emptying is to be more deeply present to one's contemporaries,
in the heart of Christ. For those who are on this "narrower" path
encourage their brethren by their example, and bear striking witness "that
the world cannot be transfigured and offered to God without the spirit of the
beatitudes."
933 Whether
their witness is public, as in the religious state, or less public, or even
secret, Christ's coming remains for all those consecrated both the origin and
rising sun of their life:
For the
People of God has here no lasting city, . . . [and this state] reveals more
clearly to all believers the heavenly goods which are already present in this
age, witnessing to the new and eternal life which we have acquired through the
redemptive work of Christ and preluding our future resurrection and the glory
of the heavenly kingdom.
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Conversion
of Sinners
·
Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: October
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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