This week’s Gospel message for Sunday, August 14th is from Luke 12:49-53.
“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.’”
“When we hear Jesus say that he has come to set the earth ablaze, setting parent against child and dividing households against each other, we find it very difficult to understand or to accept. But in the end we trust in the Lord because we believe in him. We accept that sometimes we just can’t understand the reason why.” SOURCE: Pastoral Patterns, Autumn 2022
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Corinthians 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) – This solemnity celebrates the bodily taking up of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven at the end of her earthly life. This doctrine was dogmatically defined in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, but accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven survive in apocryphal narratives from the third and fourth centuries.
Tuesday Ezekiel 28:1-10; Matthew 19:23-30
Wednesday Ezekiel 34:1-11; Matthew 20:1-16
Thursday Ezekiel 36:23-28; Matthew 22:1-14
Friday Ezekiel 37:1-14; Matthew 22:34-40
Saturday Ezekiel 43:1-7ab; Matthew 23:1-12
Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church (Memorial) – Born in France, he entered the Benedictine abbey of Citeaux. After three years, he was made abbot of a new monastery in a valley known as Clairvaux (the Valley of Light). His writings have had a profound and lasting influence on Catholic spirituality. When he died, all of Europe mourned. He was declared a doctor of the Church in 1830. SOURCE: Living With Christ, August 2022
“Christ is both our strength and our life.”
—Saint Bernard of Clairvaux