Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Roman Catholic Christianity: Daily Readings For 28 October

From USCCB, Catholic Online:



Daily Readings for 28 October:

Saints/Feasts:  St. Jude Thaddeus

St. Jude Thaddaeus




St. Jude Thaddaeus

Feastday: October 28

Patron of Desperate Cases

St. Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St. James the Less, and a relative of Our Saviour. St. Jude was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.

Ancient writers tell us that he preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Lybia. According to Eusebius, he returned to Jerusalem in the year 62, and assisted at the election of his brother, St. Simeon, as Bishop of Jerusalem.


He is an author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the East, particularly the Jewish converts, directed against the heresies of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics. This Apostle is said to have suffered martyrdom in Armenia, which was then subject to Persia. The final conversion of the Armenian nation to Christianity did not take place until the third century of our era.


Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection. Little else is known of his life. Legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa; possibly martyred with St. Simon in Persia.


Jude is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them. Therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and his feast day is October 28. Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God's mercy.

October 28, 2010


Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

More Saints of the Day


•St. Simon of Zealot

Feastday: October 28
Simon was surnamed the Zealot for his rigid adherence to the Jewish law and to the Canaanite law. He was one of the original followers of Christ. Western tradition is that he preached in Egypt and then went to Persia with St. Jude, where both suffered martyrdom. Eastern tradition says Simon died peacefully at Edessa. His feast day is October 28th.


•St. Abraham

Feastday: October 28

sixth century
The archbishop of Ephesus, Greece, and a learned theologian who authored many treatises that influenced his contemporaries. He erected monasteries in Jerusalem and Constantinople. The monastery in Constantinople was involved in a dispute with the Byzantine Emperor, Theophilus. The monks in the abbey were called Abrahamites, after the founding saint, and they refused to accept the heresy of the Iconoclasts of the time.
•St. Anastasia II

Feastday: October 28

257
Martyr, whose history is the subject of legends. She is believed to have been a young woman who lived with a group of Christian virgins in Rome. During the persecutions of Emperor Valerian, she was arrested and cruelly tortured by a perfect named Probus. When she asked for some water, a man named Cyril brought her some. For this kindness he shared her fate in beheading
•St. Anglinus

Feastday: October 28

768
Benedictine abbot. Anglinus is recorded as the tenth abbot of Stovelot-Malmedy, near Liege, Belgium


•St. Salvius

6th century
Hermit, sometime identified with Salvius of Albi. Saint-Saire, Normandy, is named after him, from the French Saire , for Salvius.


•St. Eadsin

1050
Archbishop of Canterbury, England, who crowned King St. Edward the Confessor.


•St. Ferrutius

unknown
A Roman soldier at Mainz, Germany, who refused to take part in pagan ceremonies. Thrown into prison, Ferrutius died of abuse and starvation.


•St. Fidelis of Como

304
A Roman soldier stationed in Milan, Italy. He aided Christian prisoners in an escape and was slain by his superiors. St. Charles Borromeo took Fidelis' relics to Milan, but some are venerated in Como.


•St. Godwin


690
Benedictine abbot of the monastery of Stravelot Malmedy, Belgium, and a noted scholar.
•St. Faro
Feastday: October 28

675
Bishop of Meaux France, andbrother of Sts. Chainoaldus and Burgundofara. also called Pharo. He was raised in the court of King Thibert of Austrasia and married Blidechild. He also served King Clotaire II but then became a monk when Bhidechild entered a nunnery. In 628, he was named a bishop, then became chancellor to King Dagobert I of the Franks


•St. Honoratus of Vercelli

330-415
Bishop of Vercelli, Italy, and a disciple of Sts. Eusebius and Ambrose. Born in Vercelli, Honoratus served St. Eusebius, who governed that see. When St. Eusebius went into exile in 355, Honoratus accompanied him to Scythopolis, Palestine. They traveled to Cappadocia , Egypt, and Illyricum, also Dalmatia. In 396, Honoratus was nominated as a bishop by St. Ambrose. Honoratus attended St. Ambrose on his deathbed.


•St. Joachim Royo, Blessed

Feastday: October 28

1748

Dominican martyr in China. A Spaniard, Joachim was sent to China with Blessed Peter Sanz and was ordained there. He was strangled to death in a prison after horrible atrocities. Pope Leo XIII beautified him in 1893.


•St. John Dat

1798
Martyr of Vietnam. He was a native of that land, ordained in 1798, and arrested in that same year and imprisoned for three months before being beheaded. He was canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.


•St. Remigius

875
Archbishop of Lyons, France, and theologian. After serving as the arch-chaplain to the royal court of the Carolingian ruler Charles the Bald, he was named archbishop of Lyons in 852. During his time as archbishop, he became involved in the controversy surrounding the theologian Gottschalk of Fulda. While he was opposed to Gottschalk’s teachings and ideas on predestination, he was firmly against the harsh treatment of the theologian as a result of his incarceration at the hands of Hincmar of Reims. Feast day: October 28.


Reading 1



Eph 2:19-22



Brothers and sisters:

You are no longer strangers and sojourners,

but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones

and members of the household of God,

built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,

with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.

Through him the whole structure is held together

and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;

in him you also are being built together

into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.



Ps 19:2-3, 4-5Responsorial PsalmR. (5a) Their message goes out through all the earth.

The heavens declare the glory of God,

and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

Day pours out the word to day,

and night to night imparts knowledge.

R. Their message goes out through all the earth.

Not a word nor a discourse

whose voice is not heard;

Through all the earth their voice resounds,

and to the ends of the world, their message.

R. Their message goes out through all the earth.



Lk 6:12-16GospelJesus went up to the mountain to pray,

and he spent the night in prayer to God.

When day came, he called his disciples to himself,

and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles:

Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew,

James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,

Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus,

Simon who was called a Zealot,

and Judas the son of James,

and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

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