Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:
Paul Miki was a Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian, martyrs, & saint, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. Twenty-six martyrs of Japan were crucified on a hill, now known as the Holy Mountain, overlooking Nagasaki. Among them were priests, brothers, & laymen, Franciscans, Jesuits, & members of the Secular Franciscan Order; there were catechists, doctors, simple artisans, & servants, old men & innocent children.'Tis the festival of Saint Dorothea of Caesarea, Virgin & Martyr (died 311), martyred in the reign of the emperors Galerius & Licinius, a victim of the Great Persecution: Martyr-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link Persecution.
'Tis the festival of Saints Ine & Æthelburg of Wessex (circa 673-740, also spelt Ina & Ethelburga), King & Queen of Wessex: Saint-link India & Wikipedia-link India, Saint-link Æ & Wikipedia-link Æ.
'Tis the festival of Blessed Maria Theresia Bonzel, Religious (1830-1905), foundress of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration: Blessed-link & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link S.S.F.P.A.
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Feria
The First Book of Kings, chapter eight, verses twenty-two, twenty-three, & twenty-seven thru thirty;
Psalm Eighty-four, verses three, four, five & ten, & eleven;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter seven, verses one thru thirteen.
Commentary: Reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who have imposed their interpretation of the Law on the Israelites. Keep in mind that the first Christians and the writers of the first Christian documents were all Jews, or at least people formed by a Jewish thought world. They made sense of Jesus in terms of what were, to them, the Scriptures.Video reflection by Father Jack Ledwon: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Jesus himself was an observant Jew, and the themes and images of the Holy Scriptures were elemental for him. He presented himself as the one who would not undermine the Law and the Prophets but fulfill them.
All of those social and religious conventions that had effectively divided Israel, he sought to overcome and expose as fraudulent. He reached out to everyone: rich and poor, healthy and sick, saints and sinners. And he embodied the obedience of Israel: "I have come only to do the will of the one who sent me." "My food is to do the will of my heavenly Father."
Mass Readings—Memorial of St. Paul Miki & Companions
The Letter to the Galatians, chapter two, verses nineteen & twenty;
Psalm One Hundred Twenty-six, verse five;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-eight, verses sixteen thru twenty.
Saint Quote o' the Day
"Thus understanding & love, that is, the knowledge of & delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces & comprehends with all the saints the length & breadth, the height & depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, & the wisdom of God."
—St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church (1090-1153, feast day: 20 August)
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