Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar

By reviewing day after day the time of present life, save your lives (cf. LC 21,19) by the virtues, receive the inheritance on the kingdom of heaven and collect the inconceivable goods that God’s promises reserve for us. Narrow and circumscribed is the way of God (cf. Mt 7,14) but wide and spacious (cf. Mt 7,13) The place of rest which it offers you: the demon’s temptations follow one another and somehow invaded your spiritual home, but the dew of the Spirit turns off these fires and holds open for you the water welling up in eternal life (cf. Jn 4,14). (…) Come on, my children, now let us valiantly support this very small number of days, or, to better, these days which are given to us to fight, and hold on to the crown of justice (cf. 2 TM 4,8 ). (…) I conjure you, oppose your present afflictions with a light heart (cf. 2 CO 4.17): they are nothing, and like a dream or a shadow, they quickly pass! May nothing make you tremble or bend, but with renewed ardor, let us put into practice the commandments of the Lord. Do not be saddened by an insult, drawn away by an injury, mislead by a reproach, beat down by irritation, tortured by a disdainful attitude! Lower your eyes in humility and raise your soul, be good to each other, indulgent, persevering, patient. (…) However, you have learned all of this you who are taught by God. Do what he likes (cf. Jn 8,29); And finally bravely support the days present, my children!

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The faith of a very small mustard seed, Figure of the kingdom, I have not received it in my soul, So that the mountains were transported. Neither, like the birds of the sky, I did not land on the branches of precept, Where pure souls rest, Heirs of the holy tabernacle of the heavens. (…) I became a yeast, old and without strength, And never, like the parable, the one that rises: The leaven that the woman hid in the dough, Like the mystery of your Church. This yeast, in fact, was taken from You first; Thanks to it the choirs of above were inspired; And when to our mass, coming from Adam, He was united, everything has risen. Alone, I am deprived of either one, As for the ineffable light of wisdom; Deign to make me a participant again, Please give me back what I lost.

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Bishops, as successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord, to whom was given all power in heaven and on earth, the mission to teach all nations and to preach the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain to salvation by faith, baptism and the fulfilment of the commandments.(161) To fulfill this mission, Christ the Lord promised the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and on Pentecost day sent the Spirit from heaven, by whose power they would be witnesses to Him before the nations and peoples and kings even to the ends of the earth.(162) And that duty, which the Lord committed to the shepherds of His people, is a true service, which in sacred literature is significantly called “diakonia” or ministry… Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place. For bishops are preachers of the faith, who lead new disciples to Christ, and they are authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people committed to them the faith they must believe and put into practice, and by the light of the Holy Spirit illustrate that faith. They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old, making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock. Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent. (Biblical references : Mt 28,18-20; Mk 16,15-16; Acts 1,8; 2,1f; 9,15; 1,17.25; Mt 13,52)

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team