Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar

We see some people who disdain very great riches in this world – and not only large sums of gold and silver but also magnificent properties – being disturbed over a penknife, a stylus, a needle, or a pen… And when they have given away all their wealth for the sake of Christ’s love, but still retain the heart’s old affection for the littlest things and are always quickly irritated because of them, they become in every respect fruitless and barren, like those who do not have the love of which the Apostle speaks. Foreseeing this in the Spirit, the blessed Apostle said: “If I gave all my goods to feed the poor and handed my body over to be burned, but I did not have love, it would profit me nothing.” (1 Cor 13:3) Hence it is clearly proved that perfection is not immediately arrived at by being stripped and deprived of all one’s wealth or by giving up one’s honors, unless there is that love whose elements the Apostle describes, which consists in purity of heart alone. For what else does it mean not to be envious, not to be boastful, not to be angry, not to do evil, not to seek the things that are one’s own, not to rejoice over iniquity, not to think evil and all the rest, (1 Cor 13:4-5) if not always to offer God a perfect and utterly clean heart and to keep it unsullied by any passion? For the sake of this, then, everything is to be done and desired.
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In spite of their marvels, none of the days of creation can be compared with the seventh day on which no work was done and God rested after completing his handiwork. “And on the seventh day,” the book of Genesis tells us, “God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done” (Gen 2,2). Here we are told the two requirements of the Sabbath: it must be a day, and at the same time there is to be rest. This seventh day, however, does not seem to me to be measured in time between sunrise and sunset, to be bright in the morning and dusk in the evening (cf. Gen 1,5)… Listen to him who welcomes us into his rest: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mt 11,28). This is the preparation for the Sabbath. As for the Sabbath itself, listen once more: “Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves” (v.29). Here indeed is rest, calm and true Sabbath. For this yoke does not weigh us down but unites; this burden lifts us up, it does not press on us. This yoke is charity and this burden, brotherly love. There we find rest; there we celebrate the Sabbath; there we are delivered from slavery… And if it happens that our weakness succumbs to some fault, the feasting of this Sabbath has no interruption, since “love covers a multitude of sins” (1Pt 4,8).
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team