Thursday 24 October 2013 Saints and Bible Readings..... Thursday of week 29 of the year or Saint Antony Mary Claret, Bishop About Today Psalm week: 1. Saint Antony Mary Claret (1807 - 1870) He was born at Sallent in Catalonia. After becoming a priest he spent several years preaching to the people throughout Catalonia and also in the Canary Islands. Returning to Spain, he established a missionary order, and founded a great religious library and publishing house in Barcelona which published millions of cheap copies of ancient and modern Catholic works. In 1851 the Pope appointed him Bishop of Santiago de Cuba. The diocese was in a terrible state and everything needed reform and renewal. He reorganised the seminary, enforced clerical discipline, and regularised thousands of marriages. He built a hospital and many schools. This was not done without opposition and he was the subject of fifteen assassination attempts. Recalled to Spain in 1857 by Queen Isabella II to act as her confessor, he did further great work for the Church. His health began to fail, and he died at the Cistercian abbey at Fontfroide. Catholic Calendar Romans Chapter 6 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawless ness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. 1 21 But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, 2 and its end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Table of Contents Romans 6 Footnotes 1 [20] You were free from righteousness: expressed ironically, for such freedom is really tyranny. The commercial metaphors in Romans 6:21-23 add up only one way: sin is a bad bargain. 2 [22] Sanctification: or holiness. Psalms Chapter 1 1 1 2 Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers. 2 3 Rather, the law of the LORD is their joy; Gods law they study day and night. 3 They are like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever they do prospers. 4 4 But not the wicked! They are like chaff driven by the wind. 6 The LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin. Table of Contents Psalms 1 Footnotes 1 [Psalm 1] A preface to the whole Book of Psalms, contrasting with striking similes the destiny of the good and the wicked. The psalm views life as activity, as choosing either the good or the bad. Each way brings its inevitable consequences. The wise through their good actions will experience rootedness and life, and the wicked, rootlessness and death. 2 [1] Those: literally, the man. That word is used here and in many of the Psalms as typical, and therefore is translated they. The way: a common biblical term for manner of living or moral conduct (Psalm 32:8; 101:2, 6; Proverb 2:20; 1 Kings 8:36). 3 [2] The law of the LORD: either the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, or, more probably, divine teaching or instruction. 4 [4] The wicked: those who by their actions distance themselves from Gods life-giving presence.Luke Chapter 12 49 1 I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! 50 2 There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Table of Contents Luke 12 Footnotes 1 [49-53] Jesus proclamation of the kingdom is a refining and purifying fire. His message that meets with acceptance or rejection will be a source of conflict and dissension even within families. 2 [50] Baptism: i.e., his death.
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