Tuesday, August 13 MEMORIAL OF PONTIAN, POPE, MARTYR, AND HIPPOLYTUS, PRIEST, MARTYR Don’t Keep Conflict Underground Mining has always been a dangerous business. In the ancient world mines were places where slaves, criminals, and others worked in dismal conditions. A Greek historian, Diodorus, described miners of his day who, “compelled beneath blows of the overseers to endure the severity of their plight . . . lose their lives in this wretched manner.” Opponents in life, two of those “criminals,” Pontian and Hippolytus, reconciled when they found themselves condemned for their Christian faith to the same mines. You, however, don’t have to face death in terrible conditions to make some kind of peace - even within yourself - with situations and people you are in conflict with. TODAY’S READINGS: Deuteronomy 31:1-8; Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 “Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” TAKE FIVE FOR FAITH: Daily renewal for busy Catholics
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