Mass Readings: 10/18/2024
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Saint of the Day
St. Luke (1st century)
Luke was a Greek physician, as well as an accomplished painter and sculptor. He journeyed with St. Paul as an evangelist, and visited him frequently while he was imprisoned. After St. Paul's death, he wrote the Gospel that is now attributed to him.
St. Peter Chrysologus Speaks
There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and mercy.
Scripture Verse of the Day
The Words of St. Escriva
Victory
God does not let himself be outdone in generosity. Be very sure that he grants faithfulness to those who give themselves to him.
(The Forge, #623)
Catholic Catechism #2449
Beginning with the Old Testament, all kinds of juridical measures (the jubilee year of forgiveness of debts, prohibition of loans at interest and the keeping of collateral, the obligation to tithe, the daily payment of the day-laborer, the right to glean vines and fields) answer the exhortation of Deuteronomy: "For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor in the land.'" Jesus makes these words his own: "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me." In so doing he does not soften the vehemence of former oracles against "buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals...," but invites us to recognize his own presence in the poor who are his brethren.