Saint of the Day

St. Jerome, Priest & Doctor of the Church (c. 340- c. 420) - Memorial

SAINT JEROME
Priest & Doctor of the Church)
(c. 340-c.420)

        St. Jerome, born in Dalmatia, in 329, was sent to school at Rome. His boyhood was not free from fault. His thirst for knowledge was excessive, and his love of books a passion. He had studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities, and devoted himself to the pursuit of science.

        But Christ had need of his strong will and active intellect for the service of His Church. St. Jerome felt and obeyed the call, made a vow of celibacy, fled from Rome to the wild Syrian desert, and there for four years learnt in solitude, penance, and prayer a new lesson of divine wisdom. This was his novitiate.

        The Pope soon summoned him to Rome, and there put upon the now famous Hebrew scholar the task of revising the Latin Bible, which was to be his noblest work. Retiring thence to his beloved Bethlehem, the eloquent hermit poured forth from his solitary cell for thirty years a stream of luminous writings upon the Christian world.

ITS FRIDAY

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 10:13-16. 
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 
And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.'"
Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." 

THE BIBLE

 "The BIBLE is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars." ~Henry Ward Beecher ~

its FRIDAY

Friday 23rd September, 2011
St Padre Pio. Day of penance. Haggai 1:15 – 2:9. Hope in God, I will praise him, my saviour and my God—Ps 42(43):1-4. Luke 9:18-22.



‘Who do you say I am?’
Jesus asks this, not for himself, but for us, for me. He knows very well who he is, but I need to answer for myself. I ask what I have been given down the years, what gifts and trials have shown me the face and heart of Jesus. I must search for my answer and take it to heart. Once I have found it I am called to live out of it, much as I would for a much-loved person.

Jesus has summoned us to be the person we were born to be and through his life showed us that he is the way. For me, I pray, Jesus, be my life and only way, my lantern night and day; please be my unchanging friend, guide and shepherd to the end.