Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Romans

Brothers and sisters: I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms

Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

St. John of Capistrano(Priest (1386-1456))

Saint John of CapistranoPriest (1386 – 1456) St. John of Capistrano guided the Church during an era of wars and heresy. His heroic virtues helped him shoulder the immense weight of reforming the Church. While working tirelessly, his body grew weak, but his faith became mighty. With St. Bernardine of Siena, St. John preached devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. While preaching and establishing Franciscan communities, he was accused of heresy. After his acquittal, he accomplished the reform of the Order of Friars Minor. St. John preached to thousands, from Germany to Naples. At 70 years old, he was asked by Pope Callixtus III to preach a crusade in defense of Belgrade, which was being attacked by Ottoman forces. Hungarian nobles generously answered his call. He led them, by all accounts, to victory in battle, marching upon and scattering the Ottoman forces with his valiant knights. St. John not only healed the Church, but helped prevent Islamic conquest of Europe. He defended Western Civilization like Pope Pius V, who rallied European nations to end Ottoman conquest at the Battle of Lepanto. St. John was canonized in 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII.

St. Theodoret(Priest and Martyr (4th century))

SAINT THEODORET Martyr (4th century) Around 361 A.D., Julian, uncle to the emperor and like his nephew an apostate, was made Count of the East. With malicious intent, he closed the Christian churches in Antioch. When St. Theodoret assembled the Christians in private, Count Julian summoned him before a tribunal and had him tortured. St. Theodoret's arms and feet were fastened by ropes to pulleys and stretched until his body appeared nearly eight feet tall. Alban Butler paraphrased the Saint's final moments, but the latter was more likely quiet, like a sheep before its shearers (Is. 53:7). Like the Holy One, St. Theodoret would only speak without indignation, and with purified intention (Josemaria Escriva). Against conscience and blinded by human error, the Count killed St. Theodoret with a sword. Whether the judge ever experienced contrition is in doubt. What is certain is that St. Theodoret's martyrdom made him a powerful intercessor. The conversion of Rome is accredited to his sacrifice and that of countless others.

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