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Ordinary Time 2025: Daily Mass Readings, Commentaries from Saints & Saints’ Feast Days
23 June 2025 (Monday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: Rev. #GeorgeLeoHaydock (#Genesis12:1-9 ) , #StAugustine (#Psalm33:12-13, 18-19, 20 and 22) , Sending You Joy, Love & Peace from #Singapore! Some extracted Commentaries: Saint John Chrysostom. Wherefore He does not say, ‘Do not cause a sinner to cease,’ but do not judge; that is, be not a bitter judge; correct him indeed, but not as an enemy seeking revenge, but as a physician applying a remedy. Saint Augustine. …With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged. If we judge a hasty judgment, will God also judge us with the like? Or if we have measured with a false measure, is there with God a false measure whence it may be measured to us again? For by measure I suppose is here meant judgment. Surely this is only said, that the haste in which you punish another shall be itself your punishment. For injustice often does no harm to him who suffers the wrong; but must always hurt him who does the wrong. Saint Jerome. He speaks of such as though themselves guilty of mortal sin, do not forgive a trivial fault in their brother. Saint Augustine. For having removed from our own eye the beam of envy, of malice, or hypocrisy, we shall see clearly to cast the beam out of our brother’s eye.
June 23: Feast of Saint Æthelthryth, Patron Saint of those with Throat complaints, Saint Joseph Cafasso, Patron Saint of Italian prisons, Prison chaplains, Prisoners & Those condemned to death (quotes, quotes, Preparation for Death) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
22 June 2025 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ #MassReadings, Commentaries from Rev. #GeorgeLeoHaydock, #StAugustine, #StRobertBellarmine, #StJohnChrysostom & other Saints https://emmanuel-maria.biz/index_files/Page1758.htm The Millions of #Singaporeans & http://emmanuel-maria.com.sg/index.htm sending You Peace, Love & Joy! #Singapore
June 22: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (quotes, quotes, quotes). Feast of Saint Alban, Martyr, Saint Thomas More, Lord Chancellor tortured to death, Saint Paulinus of Nola, Bishop & Confessor, Saint John Fisher, Cardinal, Martyr & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
21 June 2025 (Saturday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: #StJohnChrysostom (#2Corinthians12:1-10 ) , #StAugustine (#Psalm34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 ) , Sending You Joy, Love & Peace from #Singapore! Some extracted Commentaries: Saint Jerome. Mammon—riches are so termed in Syriac. Let the covetous man who is called by the Christian name, hear this, that he cannot serve both Christ and riches. Yet He said not, he who has riches, but, he who is the servant of riches. For he who is the slave of money, guards his money as a slave; but he who has thrown off the yoke of his slavery, dispenses them as a master. Saint Augustine. ...First let us prove that the Apostle meant that the servants of God should labour with the body. He had said, Ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us in that we were not troublesome among you, nor did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but travailing in labour and weariness day and night, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. Not that we have not power, but that we might offer ourselves as a pattern to you which ye should imitate. For when we were among you, this we taught among you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat. (2 Thessalonians 3:10.) What shall we say to this, since he taught by his example what he delivered in precept, in that he himself wrought with his own hands. This is proved from the Acts, where it is said, that he abode with Aquila and his wife Priscilla, labouring with them, for they were tent-makers. (Acts 18:3.) And yet to the Apostle, as a preacher of the Gospel, a soldier of Christ, a planter of the vineyard, a shepherd of his flock, the Lord had appointed that he should live of the Gospel, but he refused that payment which was justly his due, that he might present himself an example to those who exacted what was not due to them. Saint Augustine. …In like manner, such of God’s servants as have strength to earn their food by the labour of their hands, would easily answer any who should object to them this out of the Gospel concerning the birds of the air, that they neither sow nor reap; and would say, If we by sickness or any other hindrance are not able to work, He will feed us as He feeds the birds, that work not. But when we can work, we ought not to tempt God, seeing that even this our ability is His gift; and that we live here we live of His goodness that has made us able to live; He feeds us by whom the birds of the air are fed; as He says, Your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value? Saint Augustine. But when we read that the Apostle suffered hunger and thirst, let us not think that God’s promises failed him; for these things are rather aids. That Physician to whom we have entirely entrusted ourselves, knows when He will give and when He will withhold, as He judges most for our advantage. So that should these things ever be lacking to us, (as God to exercise us often permits,) it will not weaken our fixed purpose, but rather confirm it when wavering. Saint Jerome. Tomorrow in Scripture signifies time future, as Jacob in Genesis says, Tomorrow shall my righteousness hear me. (Genesis 30:33.) And in the phantasm of Samuel the Pythoness says to Saul, To-morrow shalt thou be with me. (1 Samuel 28:19.) He yields therefore unto them that they should care for things present, though He forbids them to take thought for things to come. For sufficient for us is the thought of time present; let us leave to God the future which is uncertain. And this is that He says, Tomorrow shall he anxious for itself; that is, it shall bring its own anxiety with it. For sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. By evil He means here not that which is contrary to virtue, but toil, and affliction, and the hardships of life. June 21: Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious, Saint John Rigby (martyr) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
20 June 2025 (Friday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: #StJohnChrysostom (#2Corinthians11:18, 21-30) , #StAugustine (#Psalm34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7) , Sending You Joy, Love & Peace from #Singapore! Some extracted Commentaries: Saint Rabanus. Here are three precepts according to the three different kinds of wealth. Metals are destroyed by rust, clothes by moth; but as there are other things which fear neither rust nor moth, as precious stones, He therefore names a common damage, that by thieves, who may rob wealth of all kinds. Allegorically; Rust denotes pride which obscures the brightness of virtue. Moth which privily eats out garments, is jealousy which frets into good intention, and destroys the bond of unity. Thieves denote heretics and demons, who are ever on the watch to rob men of their spiritual treasure. Saint Hilary. But the praise of Heaven is eternal, and cannot be carried off by invading thief, nor consumed by the moth and rust of envy. Saint Augustine. By heaven in this place I understand not the material heavens, for everything that has a body is earthly. But it behoves that the whole world be despised by him who lays up his treasure in that Heaven, of which it is said, The heaven of heavens is the Lord’s, (Psalm 115:16.) that is, in the spiritual firmament. For heaven and earth shall pass away; (Matthew 24:35.) but we ought not to place our treasure in that which passes away, but in that which abides for ever. Saint Augustine. Otherwise; by the eye here we may understand our purpose; if that be pure and right, all our works which we work according thereto are good. These He here calls the body, as the Apostle speaks of certain works as members; Mortify your members, fornication and uncleanness. (Colossians 3:5.) We should look then, not to what a person does, but with what mind he does it. For this is the light within us, because by this we see that we do with good intention what we do. For all which doth make manifest is light. (Ephesians 5:13.) But the deeds themselves, which go forth to men’s society, have a result to us uncertain, and therefore He calls them darkness; as when I give money to one in need, I know not what he will do with it. If then the purport of your heart, which you can know, is defiled with the lust of temporal things, much more is the act itself, of which the issue is uncertain, defiled. For even though one should reap good of what you do with a purport not good; it will be imputed to you as you did it, not as it resulted to him. If however our works are done with a single purpose that is with the aim of charity then are they pure and pleasing in God’s sight. June 20: Feast of Pope Saint Silverius , Irish Catholic Martyrs & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
19 June 2025 (Thursday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: #StJohnChrysostom (#2Corinthians11:1-11 ) , #StAugustine (#Psalm111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8 ) , Sending You Joy, Love & Peace from #Singapore! Some extracted Commentaries: Pope Saint Gregory the Great . True prayer consists rather in the bitter groans of repentance, than in the repetition of set forms of words. Saint John Chrysostom. You do not then pray in order to teach God your wants, but to move Him, that you may become His friend by the importunity of your applications to Him, that you may be humbled, that you may be reminded of your sins. Saint Cyprian. He who gave to us to live, taught us also to pray, to the end, that speaking to the Father in the prayer which the Son hath taught, we may receive a readier hearing. It is praying like friends and familiars to offer up to God of His own. Let the Father recognize the Son’s words when we offer up our prayer; and seeing we have Him when we sin for an Advocate with the Father, let us put forward the words of our Advocate, when as sinners we make petition for our offences. Saint Augustine. So that herein we ask for a sufficiency of all things necessary under the one name of bread. Saint Cyprian. He then who taught us to pray for our sins, has promised us that His fatherly mercy and pardon shall ensue. But He has added a rule besides, binding us under the fixed condition and responsibility, that we are to ask for our sins to be forgiven in such sort as we forgive them that are in debt to us. Saint Cyprian. Herein it is shewn that the adversary can nothing avail against us, unless God first permit him; so that all our fear and devotion ought to be addressed to God. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Saint Cyprian. After all these preceding petitions at the conclusion of the prayer comes a sentence, comprising shortly and collectively the whole of our petitions and desires. For there remains nothing beyond for us to ask for, after petition made for God’s protection from evil; for that gained, we stand secure and safe against all things that the Devil and the world work against us. What fear hath he from this life, who has God through life for his guardian? Saint Augustine. Here we should not overlook that of all the petitions enjoined by the Lord, He judged that most worthy of further enforcement, which relates to forgiveness of sins, in which He would have us merciful; which is the only means of escaping misery. June 19: Feast of Saint Romuald, Abbot (his quotes: Sit in your cell as in paradise. Put the whole world behind you and forget it. Watch your thoughts like a good fisherman watching for fish. The path you must follow is in the Psalms — never leave it. If you have just come to the monastery, and in spite of your good will you cannot accomplish what you want, take every opportunity you can to sing the Psalms in your heart and to understand them with your mind. And if your mind wanders as you read, do not give up; hurry back and apply your mind to the words once more. & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
18 June 2025 (Wednesday) #MassReadings USCCB Commentaries: #StJohnChrysostom (#2Corinthians9:6-11) , #StAugustine (#Psalm112:1bc-2,3-4, 9) , & Saints (#Matthew6:1-6,16-18). Sending You Joy, Love & Peace from #Singapore! Some extracted Commentaries: Saint Augustine. He says this, that ye be seen of men, because there are some who so do their righteousness before men that themselves may not be seen, but that the works themselves may be seen, and their Father who is in heaven may be glorified; for they reckon not their own righteousness, but His, in the faith of whom they live. Pope Saint Gregory the Great. It should be known, that there are some who wear the dress of sanctity, and are not able to work out the merit of perfection, yet who must in no wise be numbered among the hypocrites, because it is one thing to sin from weakness, another from crafty affectation. Our Comments: The Saint is referring to the Religious in the Church. Saint John Chrysostom. Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, is said as an extreme expression, as much as to say, If it were possible, that you should not know yourself, and that your very hands should be hid from your sight, that is what you should most strive after. If therefore you desire spectators of your good deeds, behold you have not merely Angels and Archangels, but the God of the universe. 8-D Saint Cyprian. The Lord has bid us in His instructions to pray secretly in remote and withdrawn places, as best suited to faith; that we may be assured that God who is present every where hears and sees all, and in the fullness of His Majesty penetrates even hidden places. Saint Remigius. Let it be enough for you that He alone know your petitions, who knows the secrets of all hearts; for He Who sees all things, the same shall listen to you. Saint John Chrysostom. He said not ‘shall freely give thee,’ but, shall reward thee; thus He constitutes Himself your debtor. Pope Saint Leo the Great. But that fasting is not pure, that comes not of reasons of continence, but of the arts of deceit. Saint John Chrysostom. In almsgiving indeed, He did not say simply, ‘Do not your alms before men,’ but added, ‘to be seen of them.’ But in fasting and prayer He added nothing of this sort; because alms cannot be so done as to be altogether hid, fasting and prayer can be so done. The contempt of men’s praise is no small fruit, for thereby we are freed from the heavy slavery of human opinion, and become properly workers of virtue, loving it for itself and not for others. For as we esteem it an affront if we are loved not for ourselves but for others’ sake, so ought we not to follow virtue on the account of these men, nor to obey God for men’s sake but for His own. Therefore it follows here, But to thy Father which seeth in secret. Pope Saint Leo the Great. Fasting ought to be fulfilled not in abstinence of food only, but much more in cutting off vices. For when we submit ourselves to that discipline in order to withdraw that which is the nurse of carnal desires, there is no sort of good conscience more to be sought than that we should keep ourselves sober from unjust will, and abstinent from dishonourable action. This is an act of religion from which the sick are not excluded, seeing integrity of heart may be found in an infirm body. Pope Saint Gregory the Great. For God approves that fasting, which before His eyes opens the hands of alms. This then that you deny yourself, bestow on another, that wherein your flesh is afflicted, that of your needy neighbour may be refreshed. Saint Augustine. Or; by the head we rightly understand the reason, because it is preeminent in the soul, and rules the other members of the man. Now anointing the head has some reference to rejoicing. Let him therefore joy within himself because of his fasting, who in fasting turns himself from doing the will of the world, that he may be subject to Christ. June 18: Feast of Saint Elisabeth of Schönau, her quote: “Rich is the Mercy of our God, and abundantly does He bestow Grace upon Grace on those who love Him.” The Book of the Ways of God Saint Gregorio Barbarigo, Bishop of Padua (his quote) (Extracts: Cardinal Barbarigo fostered catechetical instruction and he travelled to each village in his diocese in order to teach and to preach to the people. His compassion to the poor was well known for he gave his household goods and his clothes to the poor for their comfort. He even sold his bed on one occasion to help them.) & other Saints. Please pray for us & help us daily (especially the Sick & the Needy) till we meet in Heaven. Many Thanks.
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