Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Monday, October 19 : Saint Basil
Why distress yourself and go to such effort to conceal your wealth behind bricks and mortar? “A good name is more desirable than great riches” (Prv 22:1). The reason you love money is because of the attention it wins you. But think how much greater your renown will be if you can be called the […]
Monday, October 19 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,32-34.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. For where your […]
Sunday, October 18 : Saint Caesarius of Arles
What is human mercy like? It makes you concerned for the hardship of the poor. What is divine mercy like? It forgives sinners… In this world God is cold and hungry in all the poor, as he himself said (Mt 25:40)… What sort of people are we? When God gives, we want to receive, when […]
Sunday, October 18 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 18,23-35.
Jesus spoke again in parables to his disciples, saying: Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. And as he had not wherewith to pay […]
Saturday, October 17 : Saint Catherine of Siena
Thanks, thanks be to you, eternal Father, that you have not despised me, your handiwork, nor turned your face from me, nor made light of these desires of mine. You, Light, have disregarded my darksomeness; you, Life, have not considered that I am death; nor you, Doctor, considered these grave weaknesses of mine. You, eternal […]
Saturday, October 17 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 11,25-30.
At that time, Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me by […]
Friday, October 16 : Benedict XVI
At the conclusion of the central section of the Church’s great Credo—the part that recounts the mystery of Christ, from his eternal birth of the Father and his temporal birth of the Virgin Mary, through his Cross and Resurrection to the second coming—we find the phrase: “he will come again in glory to judge the […]
Friday, October 16 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 13,44-52.
Jesus said in parables: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he […]
Thursday, October 15 : Saint Augustine
In this world, which is to say in the Church wholly following Christ, he says to all of us: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself”. This command is not being directed to virgins but not married women, to widows but not wives, to monks but not husbands, to priests but not laity. […]
Thursday, October 15 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,1-13.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: The Kingdom of Heaven shall be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. And five of them were foolish and five wise. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with […]
Wednesday, October 14 : Saint Maximus of Turin
The Lord recognised in Peter a faithful steward to whom he entrusted the key of the Kingdom and, in Paul, a skilled master to whom he gave responsibility for teaching in the Church. So that those whom Paul has formed might find salvation, Peter must receive them into their rest. When Paul has opened hearts […]
