"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."[John 6:68]Monday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time
Saints of the day:
St. Cloud, Priest (522-c.560)
SAINT CLOUD
Priest
(522- c. 560)
St. Cloud is the first and most illustrious Saint among the princes of the royal family of the first race in France. He was son of Chlodomir, King of Orleans, the eldest son of St. Clotilda, and was born in 522. He was scarce three years old when his father was killed in Burgundy; but his grandmother Clotilda brought up him and his two brothers at Paris, and loved them extremely.Priest
(522- c. 560)
Their ambitious uncles divided the kingdom of Orleans between them, and stabbed with their own hands two of their nephews. Cloud, by a special providence, was saved from the massacre, and, renouncing the world, devoted himself to the service of God in a monastic state. After a time he put himself under the discipline of St. Severinus, a holy recluse who lived near Paris, from whose hands he received the monastic habit.
Wishing to live unknown to the world, he withdrew secretly into Provence, but his hermitage being made public, he returned to Paris, and was received with the greatest joy imaginable. At the earnest request of the people, he was ordained priest by Eusebius, Bishop of Paris, in 551, and served that Church some time in the functions of the sacred ministry.
He afterward retired to St. Cloud, two leagues below Paris, where he built a monastery. Here he assembled many pious men, who fled out of the world for fear of losing their souls in it. St. Cloud was regarded by them as their superior, and he animated them to all virtue both by word and example. He was indefatigable in instructing and exhorting the people of the neighboring country, and piously ended his days about the year 560.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
Saint Regina
Feastday: September 7
St. Regina was a martyr. She was an actual martyr at Autun, France. Legend has her the daughter of a pagan, Clement, and tortured and beheaded during the second century when she refused to marry the proconsul Olybrius. Feast day is Sept 7th
Monday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary TimeLetter to the Colossians 1:24 I rejoice in my present sufferings on your behalf! Yes, I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of the Messiah’s afflictions, on behalf of his Body, the Messianic Community. 25 I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to do for your benefit. The work is to make fully known the message from God, 26 the secret hidden for generations, for ages, but now made clear to the people he has set apart for himself. 27 To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory! 28 We, for our part, proclaim him; we warn, confront and teach everyone in all wisdom; so that we may present everyone as having reached the goal, united with the Messiah. 29 It is for this that I toil, striving with all the energy that he stirs up in me so mightily.2:1 For I want you to know how hard I work for you, for those in Laodicea, and for the rest of those who have not met me personally. 2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing God’s secret truth, which is — the Messiah! 3 It is in him that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.Psalms 62:6 (5) My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
because my hope comes from him.
7 (6) He alone is my rock and salvation,
my stronghold; I won’t be moved.
9 (8) Trust in him, people, at all times;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us. (Selah)The Holy Gospel of Yeshua the Messiah according to Saint Luke 6:6 On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man was there who had a shriveled hand. 7 The Torah-teachers and P’rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something. 8 But he knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Come up and stand where we can see you!” He got up and stood there. 9 Then Yeshua said to them, “I ask you now: what is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or destroying it?” 10 Then, after looking around at all of them, he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” As he held it out, his hand was restored. 11 But the others were filled with fury and began discussing with each other what they could do to Yeshua.Monday of the Twenty-third week in Ordinary Time
Commentary of the day:
Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543), monk and Bishop
Sermons for the people, no.57,4
Following this, while you were driven out of Paradise and, through sin, held fast in the bonds of death, moved by pity I entered into the virgin’s womb to come into the world without compromise to her virginity. I was laid in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes; I bore the indignities of childhood and the sufferings of being human, by which I made myself like you with the sole object of making you in my likeness. I endured the blows and the spitting of those who mocked me, I drank the vinegar with the myrrh. Beaten with rods, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross, pierced by the lance, I rendered up my soul in torment that I might rescue you from death. See the marks of the nails by which I was hung; see my side pierced through with wounds. I have borne your suffering to give you my glory; I have borne your death so that you might live for eternity. I rested, enclosed within the tomb, so that you might reign in heaven.
Why then have you lost what I suffered for your sake ? Why have you set aside the graces of your redemption?... Give me back your life for which I gave you my own; give me back the life that you are constantly destroying with the wounds of your sins.”
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