Daily Readings for September 30, 2026
– St. Jerome (September 30) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.30.26 | Wednesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.30.26 | Wednesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR (O.R.C)
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– Following Jesus Without Looking Back – Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552)
Jesuit missionary
Letter of 22/10/1552
«I will follow you wherever you go» : a great missionary facing danger
There are numerous decrees forbidding entrance to China… But, aside from the dangers of prison and maltreatment, there are even greater ones that people here do not suspect… In the first place, loss of hope and trust in God, when it is for love of him and for his service that we are about to make his Law known and Jesus Christ, his Son, our Redeemer and our Lord, as he well knows. Since, in his blessed mercy, he has communicated these desires to us, to fail now in trust in his mercy and power before the perils we may run for his service is a far greater peril than all the harm God’s enemies might cause us. If it matters to his greater service, God will keep us from all the perils of this life… Hence we have for our guard the Lord’s word: “Whoever loves his life in this world will lose it and whoever loses it for God’s sake will find it” (cf. Jn 12,25). And this like it: “Anyone who sets their hand to the plough and looks back is not worthy of the Kingdom of God”.
As for us, bearing in mind these dangers of soul, which are so much greater than those of the body, we are all the more sure and certain of confronting bodily dangers… Therefore, however it may be, we are determined to go to China.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Second Epistle to Timothy 4,1-8.
Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming, and his kingdom : Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 5,13-19.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Melito of Sardis (?-c.195)
Bishop
Paschal Homily (passim)
“I have come not to abolish but to fulfill the Law”
The sacrifice of the lamb, the Passover rite and the letter of the Law have reached their term in Jesus Christ, in view of whom everything in the ancient Law took place – and even more so in the new dispensation. For the Law became the Word; from being old it became new (…); the commandments have been transformed into grace and the foreshadowing into truth; the lamb has become the son, the sheep has become man, and man has become God. (…)
God though he was, the Lord put on our humanity; he suffered for him who was suffering, was bound for him who was captive, was judged for the guilty, was buried for him who was buried. He was raised from the dead and cried out in a loud voice: “If anyone wishes to oppose me, let us appear together” (Is 50,8). It is I who delivered the condemned man; I who restored life to the dead; I who raised up those in the grave. “Who disputes my right?” It is I, he says, I who am the Christ, I who destroyed death, who triumphed over the enemy, who bound the mighty enemy and carried off man to the heights of heaven; it is I, he says, who am the Christ.
Come along then, every human family, full of sin as you are, and receive the forgiveness of your sins. For I myself am your forgiveness, I am the Passover of salvation, the Lamb slain for your sakes, your redemption, life and resurrection; I am your light, your salvation and your king. It is I who lead you to the heights of heaven, I who will raise you up; it is I who will bring you to see the Father who is from all eternity; it is I who will raise you up by my all-powerful hand.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-30
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 30, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Jerome (30 September): Ignorance in Scripture is Ignorance in Christ
St. Jerome (30 September): Can A Saint Be Cranky?
Daily Readings for September 29, 2026
Michaelmas (September 29) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
InPrincipio Podcast
A meditation for Michaelmas, the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.
Michaelmas, traditionally celebrated on September 29, is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, one of the principal feasts honoring the holy angels. Saint Michael, whose name means “Who is like God?”, is especially honored as the defender of the Church and the champion of God’s truth against Satan and the powers of darkness. The feast commemorates the victory of the faithful angels under Michael’s leadership over the rebellious angels, who were cast from Heaven, and it calls Christians to remember the reality of the spiritual battle and the protection God provides through His holy angels. In the traditional Catholic calendar, Michaelmas is one of the great feasts of the year and has long held particular importance in Christian devotion, especially as a time to invoke Saint Michael’s protection and to seek his aid in resisting temptation and remaining faithful to God.
Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readings of the Liturgical Year, from Trinity Sunday until Advent, were not directly authored by Dom Prosper, but were the work of his disciple Dom Lucien Fromage.
Liturgy of the Hours
Divine Office 9.29.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.29.26 | Tuesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Angels Who Serve God’s Glory – Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (313-350)
Bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church
Baptismal catechesis 16:22-23
The Spirit scrutinizes everything, even to the depths of God
Great indeed, and all-powerful in gifts, and wonderful, is the Holy Ghost… You have seen His power, which is in all the world; tarry now no longer upon earth, but ascend on high. Ascend, I say, in imagination even unto the first heaven, and behold there so many countless myriads of Angels. Mount up in your thoughts, if you can, yet higher; consider, I pray you, the Archangels, consider also the Spirits; consider the Virtues, consider the Principalities, consider the Powers, consider the Thrones, consider the Dominions — of all these the Comforter is the Ruler from God, and the Teacher, and the Sanctifier.
Of Him Elias has need, and Elisseus, and Esaias, among men; of Him Michael and Gabriel have need among Angels. Naught of things created is equal in honour to Him: for the families of the Angels, and all their hosts assembled together, have no equality with the Holy Ghost. All these the all-excellent power of the Comforter overshadows. And they indeed are sent forth to minister (Hebrews 1:14), but He searches even the deep things of God, according as the Apostle says, “For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the thing of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10-11 ).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Revelation 1,1-5.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make known to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and signified, sending by his angel to his servant John, Who hath given testimony to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, what things soever he hath seen. Blessed is he that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy: and keepeth those things which are written in it. For the time is at hand. John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you and peace, from him that is and that was and that is to come: and from the seven spirits which are before his throne: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 18,1-10.
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-395)
monk and Bishop
Catechetical Discourse 23-26 ; SC 453
“Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike”
The fact that the all-powerful God has been able to humble himself even to the humility of the human condition constitutes a greater proof than the impact and supernatural character of miracles. Indeed, when divine power effects something of great sublimity this is, after a fashion, in conformity with and appropriate to God’s nature… On the other hand, that God descended even to our lowliness is, in a certain way, the expression of an overwhelming power that is not in the least restrained by what is contrary to its nature…
Neither the expanse of the heavens, the brightness of the stars, the governing of the universe, nor the harmony of created things reveal the splendid power of God so much as his indulgence, which leads him to lower himself to the weakness of our nature… God’s goodness, wisdom, justice and power are revealed in his plans on our behalf: goodness in his will to “save that which was lost” (Lk 19,10); wisdom and justice in his manner of saving us; power in the fact that Christ became “in the likeness of men” (Phil 2,7-8) and made himself conformable to the humility of our nature.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-29
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 29, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Michael the Archangel: Defender of Souls & Prince of Heaven’s Army (29 September)
Daily Readings for September 28, 2026
– St. Wenceslaus (September 28) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.28.26 | Monday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.28.26 | Monday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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Saint John Cassian (around 360-435)
founder of monasteries
Conferences no.15,7 (©Ancient Christian Writers; SC 54, p. 216 rev.)
“The one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.”
“Come,” said Christ to his apostles, “and learn from me” – not, to be sure, how to cast out demons with heavenly power, nor how to cleanse lepers, nor how to enlighten the blind, nor how to raise the dead… But you, he says, “Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart” (Mt 11:28-29). For this can be learned and practiced by everyone in general, whereas the works of signs and mighty deeds are neither always necessary and appropriate for everyone, nor are they bestowed on everyone.
Humility, then, is the teacher of all the virtues; it is the most firm foundation of the heavenly edifice; it is the Savior’s own magnificent gift. For a person may perform without danger of pride all the miracles that Christ worked if he strains after the meek Lord not because of his exalted signs but because of his patience and humility. But a person who itches to command unclean spirits, to bestow the gift of health on the sick, or to show some wondrous sign to the people is far from Christ even though he invokes the name of Christ in his displays, because by reason of his proud mind he does not follow the Teacher of humility.
Even when he was returning to his Father he prepared what I might call his testament, and he left this to his disciples: “A new commandment I give you,” he said, “that you love one another; as I have loved you, you must also love one another.” And immediately he added: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13:34-35). He did not say: If you also perform signs and mighty deeds, but: “If you have love for one another.” Certainly no one can observe this but the gentle and the humble.
– When Faith Is Tested – Monday, September 28, 2026
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Wisdom 10,10-14.
Thy wisdom conducted the just, when he fled from his brother’s wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit. And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10,34-42.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples, Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth; I have come to bring a sword, not peace. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.
He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.
John Tauler (c.1300-1361)
Dominican
Sermon 59, 4th for the Exaltation of the Cross
“Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it”
Let us consider these words of our Lord: that he wants “to draw all things to himself” (Jn 12,32 Vg). Someone who wants to draw all things, first of all gathers them together and afterward draws them. This is what our Lord does: first of all he calls us back from straying about and wandering outside, making us collect our senses, faculties, words, deeds and, within, our thoughts, intention, imagination, desires, inclinations, mind, will and love. Then, when everything is rightfully returned to good order, God draws us to himself. For we must first of all be separated from every exterior or interior possession to which we are attached, putting all our satisfaction in them. This kind of detachment is a painful cross, and all the more painful as the attachment is more firm and more strong…
Why does God rarely allow one day and night to resemble the previous day and night? Why is it that what helped your devotion today is of no help at all tomorrow? Why do you have a host of images and thoughts that come to nothing? My dear child, accept this cross from God and bear it: it will turn into a truly lovable cross if you would hand these trials over to God, accept them from him with true abandonment and thank God for them: “My soul magnifies the Lord” in everything (cf Lk 1,46). Whether God takes or gives, the Son of Man must be raised up on the cross… Dear child, leave all that behind; rather, give your attention to true abandonment…and think about accepting to bear the cross of temptation rather than going in search of spiritual sweetness… Our Lord has said: “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me” (Lk 9,23).
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-28
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 28, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
– The True Story of Good King Wenceslas (28 September)
Daily Readings for September 27 , 2026
– The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.27.26 | Sunday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.27.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II
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– Keith Nester – Unpacking The Mass – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
St Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church
The book of divine works, chap. 6
Obedience, the foundation of all divine works
[Saint Hildegard presents a vision in which vice and virtue respond to one another:]
– Disobedience: “Why respect the precepts of others? In doing so, we fail to recognize who we are. We are credible philosophers, and we know more than others. How could we fail to act upon what we know? I know that what I decide within myself is right, useful, and beneficial… what I see, what I touch, and what I understand in my mind—that is what I must do.”
– Obedience: “I, who obey, am united with Him: when God made all things through His Word—when He said “Fiat”—I was the eye of creation, and at God’s command, I kept watch. Thus, all things were created. But when the first angel began to exist, he quickly set himself against God; I declared that his works would not endure, since he sought to be different. He even tried to attack and bite me, yet he did not prevail. I lie at the foundation of all divine works, just as the soul does for the body. Just as a man’s will accomplishes his desires, I am the will of God, bringing to completion all that God undertakes… I touch, will, or desire nothing that is not in God… As for you, you resemble dead leaves; you shall be swept away just as they are…”
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
First Epistle to the Corinthians 1,4-8.
Brethren, I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Jesus Christ, That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and in all knowledge; As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 9,1-8.
At that time, Jesus entering into a boat, passed over the water and came into His own city. And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He blasphemeth. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house. And he arose, and went into his house. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave such power to men.
Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444)
Bishop, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke’s Gospel, 5 ; PG 72, 565
“The crowd glorified God who had given such authority to human beings”
The incurable paralytic was lying on his stretcher. Having exhausted medical art he was carried by his relatives to the only true physician: the physician who comes from heaven. But when he had been set down in front of the one who could cure him it was his faith that drew the Lord’s attention. To demonstrate that this faith destroyed sin, Jesus immediately said: “Your sins are forgiven.” Now perhaps you will say to me: “This man wanted to be cured of his sickness, so why did Christ make known to him the remission of his sins?” This was so you might learn that God sees a person’s heart in silence, soundlessly, and beholds the paths of all the living. For, as scripture says: “Each one’s ways are plain to the Lord’s sight; all their paths he surveys” (Prv 5:21). (…)
All the same, when Christ said: “Your sins are forgiven”, he left the field open to the incredulity of those standing by; the forgiveness of sins cannot be seen by eyes of flesh. So when the paralytic stood up and walked, he gave proof that Christ possesses the power of God. (…)
Who has this power ? He alone, or ourselves too ? We also have it along with him. He, on his part, forgives sins because he is both man and God and Lord of the Law. But we, on our side, have received this splendid and wonderful grace from him since it was his will to give this power to all humankind. For he said to the apostles: “Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Mt 18:18). And again: “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them” (Jn 20:23).
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-27
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 27, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Sts. Cosmas & Damian | Brothers in Faith, Physicians & Martyrs for Christ (27 September)
Daily Readings for September 26, 2026
Saints Cyprian and Justina (September 26) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
A meditation for the Feast of Saints Cyprian and Justina, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.
Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina were Christian martyrs traditionally associated with Antioch in Syria and are commemorated together on September 26. According to their ancient hagiographical tradition, Cyprian was a pagan magician who, after attempting through his occult arts to win the Christian maiden Justina for a young pagan admirer, was overcome by the power of her faith and her prayers to Christ. Renouncing his former practices, Cyprian became a Christian, was baptized, and eventually became a bishop and zealous preacher of the Gospel. During the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian, Cyprian and Justina were arrested, tortured, and finally beheaded at Nicomedia around the beginning of the fourth century. Their story is especially remembered as a testimony to the power of Christian prayer, the protection of God against the powers of darkness, and the triumph of faith over paganism and temptation.
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.26.26 | Saturday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.26.26 | Saturday Evening Prayer | Vespers I
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– Remember Your Creator – Saturday, September 26, 2026
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)
Pope, Doctor of the Church
Book XIII; 25-26 Morals: An Exposition on the book of Job
Receive and proclaim the Passion of our Redeemer
He suffered without the wickedness of His hand; Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, [1 Pet. 2, 22] and yet endured the pain of the Cross for our redemption. Who only above all others ‘made pure prayers to God,’ in that even in the very anguish of His Passion He prayed in behalf of His persecutors, saying, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. [Luke 23, 24] For what can be described, what can be conceived more pure in prayer, than when the mercifulness of His intercession is granted even to those from whose hands pain is undergone?
” O earth, cover thou not my blood; and let my cry find no place to lie hid in thee.” (Job 16:18) this ‘earth’ does not ‘cover the blood’ of our Redeemer: in that each several sinner taking to himself the price of his redemption makes confession and sings praise, and publishes it to all of his neighbours that he is able. Moreover, ‘earth did not cover His blood,’ in that Holy Church has now preached the mystery of His redemption in all parts of the world…
So then that the Sacraments of our Lord’s Passion may not be ineffectual in us, we are bound to imitate that which we take, and to preach to others what we adore. For ‘His cry does find a place to lie hid in us,’ if what the mind has been brought to believe the tongue is silent about. But that His cry may not lie hid in us, it remains that each one of us according to his small measure should make known to his neighbours the mystery of his own quickening.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Hebrews 9,2-12.
For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the Holy. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies: Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament. And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle, the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices. But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people’s ignorance: The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks, And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.
But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation: Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 13,6-17.
He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground? But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it and dung it. And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look upwards at all. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity. And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day. And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger and lead them to water? And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.
Saint Cyprian (c.200-258)
Bishop of Carthage and martyr
The good of patience, 6, 7-8 (©The Fathers of the Church); cf. SC 291, p.199 rev.)
“It may bear fruit in the future” : imitating God’s patience
This, beloved brethren, Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, did not teach by words only but he also fulfilled by his deeds… In the very hour of his passion and cross… what violent abuses he listened to with patience, and what shameful insults he endured! He was even covered with the spittle of his revilers when, but a short time before, he had cured the eyes of the blind man with his own spittle(Jn 9:6)… He who now crowns the martyrs with eternal garlands was himself crowned with thorns; he who now gives true palms to the victors was beaten in the face with hostile palms; he who clothes all others with the garment of immortality was stripped of his earthly garments; he who has given us the food of heaven was fed with gall; he who has offered us the cup of salvation was given vinegar to drink. He the innocent, the just man, nay rather, Innocence itself and Justice itself, is counted among criminals, and Truth is concealed by false testimonies. He who is to judge is judged, and the Word of God, silent, is led to the cross. And although the stars are confounded at the crucifixion of the Lord, the elements are disturbed and the earth trembles… yet he does not speak, nor is he moved, nor does he proclaim his majesty, even during the suffering itself. He endures all things even to the end with constant perseverance so that in Christ a full and perfect patience may find its realization.
And even after such sufferings he still receives his murderers if they are converted and come to him, and with a patience instrumental in saving man, this kind Master closes his Church to no one. He not only receives and pardons those adversaries, those blasphemers, those persistent enemies of His name, provided they do penance for their offense and acknowledge the crime committed, but he admits them to the reward of the kingdom of heaven. What can be called more patient, what more kind? Even he who shed the blood of Christ is given life by the blood of Christ. Such is the wonderful patience of Christ. And unless it were so wonderful, the Church would not have had Paul, the great Apostle.
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 26, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
– North American Martyrs (26 September): The Need for Conversions
Daily Readings for September 25, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
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– There Is a Time for Everything – Friday, September 25, 2026
Saint Paul VI
Pope from 1963-1978
Homily given at Manilla, 29/11/70 (©Libreria Editrice Vaticana)
“But who do you say that I am?”
Convinced of Christ: yes, I feel the need to proclaim him, I cannot keep silent. “Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Cor 9,16). I am sent by him, by Christ himself, to do this. I am an apostle, I am a witness. The more distant the goal, the more difficult my mission the more pressing is the love that urges me to it (2 Cor 5,14). I must bear witness to his name: Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt 16,16). He reveals the invisible God, he is the firstborn of all creation, the foundation of everything created (Col 1,15f.). He is the Teacher of mankind, and its Redeemer. He was born, he died and he rose again for us. He is the center of history and of the world; he is the one who knows us and who loves us; he is the companion and the friend of our life. He is the man of sorrows and of hope. It is he who will come and who one day will be our judge and – we hope -the everlasting fullness of our existence, our happiness.
I could never finish speaking about him: he is the light and the truth; indeed, he is “the way, the truth and the life” (Jn 14,6). He is the bread and the spring of living water to satisfy our hunger and our thirst (Jn 6,35; 7,38). He is our shepherd, our guide, our model, our comfort, our brother. Like us, and more than us, he has been little, poor, humiliated; he has been a worker; he has known misfortune and been patient. For our sake he spoke, worked miracles and founded a new kingdom where the poor are happy, where peace is the principle for living together, where the pure of heart and those who mourn are raised up and comforted, where those who hunger and thirst after justice have their fill, where sinners can be forgiven, where all are brothers.
Jesus Christ: you have heard him spoken of; indeed the greater part of you are already his: you are Christians. So, to you Christians I repeat his name, to everyone I proclaim him: Jesus Christ “is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega” (Rv 21,6); he is the king of the new world; he is the secret of history; he is the key to our destiny. He is the mediator, the bridge, between heaven and earth. He is… the Son of Man, because he is the Son of God… He is the son of Mary… Jesus Christ is our constant preaching; it is his name that we proclaim to the ends of the earth (Rom 10,18) and throughout all ages.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Hosea 14,2-10.
Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity. Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee. I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them. I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus. His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus. They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,36-50.
And one of the Pharisees desired Jesus to eat with him. And Jesus went into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.
And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment. And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner. And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said: Master, say it. A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty. And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most? Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly. And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped them. Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she cane in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath anointed my feet. Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven thee. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also? And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in peace.
An anonymous Syrian writer of the 6th century
From a collection of anonymous homilies on the sinful woman, 1, 4.5.19.26.28 (Eastern Syrian)
“Her many sins have been forgiven”
A sinful woman has proclaimed to us that God’s love has gone forth in search of sinners. For when he called her, Christ was inviting our whole race to his love; and in her person he was drawing all sinners to his forgiveness. He spoke to her alone, but he was drawing all creation to his grace. (…)
Who would not be struck by the mercy of Christ, who accepted an invitation to a Pharisee’s house in order to save a sinner! For the sake of the woman who hungered for forgiveness, he himself felt hunger for the table of Simon the Pharisee; and all the while, under the guise of a meal of bread he had prepared for the sinner a meal of repentance! (…)
In order that you may have the same experience, reflect within yourself that your sin is great but that it is blasphemy against God, and an injury to yourself, to despair of his forgiveness because your sin seems to you to be too great. He has promised to forgive your sins, however many they are; will you tell him you cannot believe this and dispute with him, saying that your sin is too great and he cannot heal your sickness? Stop at that point, and cry out with the prophet: “Lord, I have sinned against you” (Ps 51[50]:6). At once he will reply, “As for me, I have overlooked your fault: you shall not die.” Glory to him from us all through all ages. Amen.
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Daily Readings for September 24, 2026
– Our Lady of Ransom (September 24) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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– When Life Feels Meaningless – Thursday, September 24, 2026
Origen (c.185-253)
priest and theologian
Homilies on Genesis, no.1, 5-7 (trans. SC 7 rev.)
“Herod was seeking to see Jesus”
Sun and moon illuminate our bodies and, even so, Christ and the Church illuminate our spirits. At least, they illuminate them provided we are not spiritually blind. For just as sun and moon never cease from shedding their brightness on the blind, who are unable, however, to receive their light, so Christ casts his light on our spirits but this illumination only takes place if our blindness does not set an obstacle. Let those who are blind, then, first of all follow Christ, crying: “Take pity on us, Son of David!” (Mt 9:27). And when, thanks to him they have found their sight again, they will be able to be irradiated with the splendor of his light.
Yet not all who see are equally illuminated by Christ; each one is so to the extent he is able to receive the light (cf. Lk 23:8)… We don’t all go to him in the same manner but “each according to his own abilities” (Mt 25:15).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Ephesians 4,1-6.
Brethren, I, a prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called. With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 22,34-46.
At that time the Pharisees came to Jesus, And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David’s. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942)
Carmelite, martyr, co-patron of Europe
The History and Spirit of Carmel
“Happy the man… (who) delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night.” (Ps 1:1-2)
What does “the law of the Lord” mean? Psalm 118 [119] … is filled with the desire of knowing the law of the Lord and letting oneself by guided by it during one’s entire life. It is very possible the psalmist was thinking there of the Law of the Old Covenant. Getting to know it really did demand life-long study, and fulfilling it demanded an effort of the will that also lasted one’s whole life. But the Lord has freed us from the yoke of this Law. We can consider the law of the New Covenant to be the great commandment of love, which includes all of the Law and the prophets, as he said. Perfect love of God and of neighbor would certainly be an object worthy to be studied over a whole lifetime.
But better still, we understand the law of the New Covenant to be the Lord Jesus himself, since his life is for us the model of the life we are to live. Thus we fulfill our Rule if we constantly keep before our eyes the image of the Lord Jesus so as to become like him. The Gospel is the book we will never have finished studying. But we don’t find the Lord only in the accounts of those who witnessed his life. He is present to us in the most Blessed Sacrament and in the hours of adoration before the supreme Good, attentive listening to the voice of the God of the Eucharist are both “meditation on the law of the Lord” and a “vigil in prayer”. However, the highest degree is reached when “the law dwells within our hearts” (Ps 40:11).
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Daily Readings for September 23, 2026
– The Ember Days of September — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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– Sent With Nothing but Faith – Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara
Letter to Joseph Hours, 3 May 1912
“He began to send them out”
To be an apostle? How? Through those whom God makes available. Priests have their superiors who tell them what they are to do. Laypeople should be apostles towards all those they reach: relations and friends but not them alone; charity is not restricted, it embraces all those embraced by the Heart of Jesus.
By what means? By the best possible, taking into account those to whom they address themselves. But with all those with whom they are in relation, without exception with goodness, kindness, brotherly love, the example of virtue, and with the humility and gentleness that is always so attractive and so Christian. With some people without ever saying a word to them about God or religion, being patient as God is patient, good as God is good, by being a tender, prayerful brother. With yet others, speaking to them about God in the degree they are able to bear it. As soon as they have started thinking about seeking out the truth then through the study of religion, putting them into contact with a carefully chosen priest who is able to do them good. Above all, see a brother in every person.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Nehemiah 8,1-10.
And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month. And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book. And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam. And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood. And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground. Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made silence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their place. And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly to be understood: and they understood when it was read. And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 9,16-29.
And one of the multitude said to Jesus: Master, I have brought my son to thee, having a dumb spirit. Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not. Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me. And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the spirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled about foaming. And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he sad: From his infancy. And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us. And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief. And when Jesus saw the multitude running together, he threatened the unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of him and enter not any more into him. And crying out and greatly tearing him, he went our of him. And he became as dead, so that many said: He is dead. But Jesus taking him by the hand, lifted him up. And he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we cast him out? And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee: and he would not that any man should know it.
Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara
Meditations on the Gospels (trans. Charlotte Balfour, 1930)
“I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Faith is the virtue that Our Lord most often rewards and praises. Sometimes he praises love, as in the case of Mary Magdalen (Lk 7,37). Sometimes humility, but these are rare cases, and it is nearly always faith that earns his approval and reward. Why is this? No doubt because it is the most important of the virtues, if not the greatest, for it is the foundation of all the others, including charity, and it is the rarest of all.
To have real faith, faith that inspires all one’s actions, and faith in the supernatural which tears the mask from the world and sees God in everything, which makes all things possible, which takes all meaning out of such words as worry, peril, fear, which makes us pass through life calmly, peacefully, happily, like a child holding its mother’s hand, which gives the soul perfect detachment from all material things, shewing it their emptiness and puerility; which gives to prayer the confidence of a child asking something he deserves from his father; a faith to which “all is falsehood except to do the will of God”; a faith that makes all appear in a new light, so that we see people in the likeness of God making us love them and respect them as the counterfoils of our Beloved, and do them all the good we can. It will help us to regard all other living things as aids to the winning of Heaven, for we can always give God praise for them, or use them, or renounce them. Faith will shew us the greatness of God and our own littleness. It will make us undertake whatever is pleasing to God without hesitation or false shame or fear and without looking back. Ah! such faith is rare indeed. My God, give me this faith; my God, I believe, help thou my unbelief; my God, let me believe and love.
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Feast / Saint of the Day
The Saints Who Shook the World: Padre Pio, St. Linus & Catholic Ember Days (23 September)
Daily Readings for September 22, 2026
– St. Thomas of Villanova (September 22) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year\r\n5 hours ago
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– Living as God’s Family – Tuesday, September 22, 2026
William of Saint-Thierry (c.1085-1148)
Benedictine, then a Cistercian monk
The Contemplation of God 2-3
My heart has said, “Seek ye His face”, Do not hide your face from me
I am bold and audacious—You, my unfailing help and support, You who never grow weary! Yet it is the love of Your love that drives me to seek Your face. You see me, while I cannot see You; yet You have given me the desire for You, and You have bestowed upon me all that is pleasing to You within me. And You instantly forgive this blind man who runs toward You; You reach out Your hand the moment You see him stumble.
But now, deep within my soul, the voice of Your word makes itself heard and answers my longing. It thunders, shaking all that lies within me, and my inner eyes are blinded by the dazzling radiance of Your truth. It reminds me that no one can see You and live (Ex 33:20). As for me, in the abyss of my sin, I have not yet managed to die to self so as to live for You alone (2 Cor 5:15). Yet, in accordance with Your word and by a gift from You, I stand upon the rock of faith in You—the Christian faith—in that place which is truly near to You (Ex 33:21). Resting on this faith, I wait patiently as best I can, and I embrace Your right hand, which holds me fast and keeps me safe (Wis 5:16).
At times, when I contemplate and strive to see, I behold—from behind (Ex 33:23)—the One who looks upon me; I behold the humility of the human life of Christ, your Son, as it passes by… I await the day when you will remove the hand that covers me (Ex 33:22) and grant the grace that illuminates, so that one day at last—dead to myself and alive to you, with the veil lifted from my face—I may begin to see your face unveiled.
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Readings & Reflection
Book of Sirach 44,16-23.45,3-15.
Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation. Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came. The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood. Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful. Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth, And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his judgments. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi: He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory, And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about, That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth: Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for its beauty. Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,14-23.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods; And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey. And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the earth and hid his lord’s money. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. Behold I have gained other five over and above. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other two. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)
Pope, Doctor of the Church
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Catena Aurea, Gospel of Matthew (translated by John Henry Parker, v. I, J.G.F. and J. Rivington – London, 1842)
The more you receive, the more you have to account for
The man in travelling into a far country is our Redeemer, who ascended into heaven in that flesh which He had taken upon Him. For the proper home of the flesh is the earth, and it, as it were, travels into a foreign country, when it is placed by the Redeemer in heaven.
Otherwise; The five talents denote the gift of the five senses, that is, the knowledge of things without; the two signify understanding and action, the one talent understanding only.
There are also some who though they cannot pierce to things inward and mystical, yet for their measure of view of their heavenly country they teach rightly such things as they can, what they have gathered from things without, and while they keep themselves from wantonness of the flesh, and from ambition of earthly things, and from the delights of the things that are seen, they restrain others also from the same by their admonitions.
Again, there are some who by their understanding and their actions preach to others, and thence gain as it were a twofold profit in such merchandize. This their preaching bestowed upon both sexes is thus a talent doubled.
To hide one talent in the earth is to devote the ability we have received to worldly business.
This lesson from this Gospel warns us to consider whether those who seem to have received more in this world than others shall not be more severely judged by the Author of the world; the greater the gifts, the greater the reckoning for them. Therefore should every one be humble concerning his talents in proportion as he sees himself tied up with a greater responsibility.
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Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Thomas Villanova & St. Maurice & Theban Legion (22 September): Give Your Lives Fully to God
Daily Readings for September 21, 2026
– St. Matthew (September 21) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
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– Called to Follow Jesus – Monday, September 21, 2026
John Tauler (c.1300-1361)
Dominican
Sermon 64
“Matthew got up and followed him.”
Our Lord told Saint Matthew: “Follow me.” This lovable saint is a model for everyone. He was first of all a great sinner, as the Gospel says, and later, he became one of the great ones among all God’s friends. For Our Lord spoke to him in the depths of his being and then he left everything in order to follow the Master.
To follow God in truth – that is everything; and in order to do that, it is necessary truly and completely to leave all that is not God, whatever it might be. God is a lover of hearts. He is not interested in what is external; rather, he wants us to give him a living, interior devotedness. That devotedness has in itself more truth than if I said prayers so as to fill the whole world or sang so loud that my song rose up to the highest heaven; it has more truth than anything I might do externally by fasting, vigils and other practices.
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Readings & Reflection
Book of Ezekiel 1,10-14.
As for the likeness of the four living creatures’ faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four. And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies: And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire. And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of lightning.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 9,9-13.
And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he arose up and followed him. And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.
Saint Peter Chrysologus (c.406-450)
Bishop of Ravenna, Doctor of the Church
Sermon 30; CCL 24,173; PL 52,284
“The man got up and followed him”
Seated at his customs post, this unfortunate publican was in an even worse situation than the paralytic about whom I spoke to you the other day – the one who was lying on a stretcher, (Mk 2:1 ff.). The latter was afflicted with bodily paralysis but this man with paralysis of soul. Where the first was concerned, all his members were deformed, but in the case of the second, all his powers of judgement were in disarray. The former was lying a prisoner of his own flesh; the latter was seated, captive in soul and body. The paralytic fell a prey to suffering in spite of himself, but as for the publican, it was with full consent that he was a slave of evil and sin. This latter, innocent in his own eyes, was accused of covetousness by others; the former, in the midst of his sores, knew himself to be a sinner. This man piled up his gains, all of which were sinful; the other wiped out his sins while groaning in misery. Hence the words addressed to the paralytic were absolutely just: “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven you”, since by his sufferings he was making up for his offences. As for the publican, these were the words he heard: “Come, follow me,” which is to say: “You will make reparation by following me, you who were lost by following after money.”
Someone may say: Why did the publican, apparently the more culpable, receive a higher gift? Straightaway he becomes an apostle (…). He himself received forgiveness and grants to others the remission of their sins; he illumines the whole earth with the brightness of the preaching of the Gospel. Whereas the paralytic is barely accounted worthy even to receive forgiveness. Would you like to know why the publican obtained greater graces? It is because, according to the apostle Paul’s words: “Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,” (Rm 5:20).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 21, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle – From Tax Collector to Evangelist (21 September)
Daily Readings for September 20, 2026
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
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– Divine Office 9.20.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II
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– Keith Nester Unpacking the Mass – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
– God’s Ways Are Greater Than Ours – Sunday, September 20, 2026
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)
Pope, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on the Gospel, no. 11 (©Cistercian Fathers series)
“You too go into my vineyard”
At no time did the Lord cease sending his people workmen to cultivate his vineyard..:. through the patriarchs, and later through the teachers of the law, and then through the prophets, and at last through the apostles, he labored at the cultivation of his vineyard as if by his workmen. Everyone, though, who had the right faith with good works… was a workman in his vineyard.
And so the Hebrew people is meant by the workmen who came to the vineyard in the morning and during the third, sixth and ninth hours. In the persons of their elect, they eagerly worshipped God with right faith from the very beginning The Gentiles were called at the eleventh hour, and it was said to them: “Why do you stand here the whole day idle?” Those who neglected to labor for the whole of their lives, while so much of the world’s history passed by, were like those standing by the whole day. But consider, my friends, what they answered when they were questioned. They said: “Because no one has hired us.” In truth no patriarch and no prophet had come to them. And did they mean when they said, “No one has hired us to labor,” if not “No one has preached to us the ways of life”?
What, then, are we to say, to excuse ourselves for our having ceased from good works? We have come to the faith almost from our mothers’ wombs, we have heard the words of life from our cradles, we have received divine preaching from the breasts of holy Church together with our mothers’ milk!
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Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Ephesians 4,1-6.
Brethren, I, a prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called. With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 22,34-46.
At that time the Pharisees came to Jesus, And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David’s. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Saint Clement of Alexandria (150- c.215)
theologian
Homily “ Can the rich be saved?”
The two commandments
When our Master was asked which was the greatest of the commandments, he replied: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your strength. There is no other commandment greater than this” (Mk 12:30-31). I think so, too, since it concerns primary and essential Being, God our Father, through whom all things were made, all things remain in being, and to whom all who are saved will return. He it is who loved us the first, who gave birth to us. It would be sacrilege to think there exists any being more ancient or more wise. Our thanksgiving may be insignificant compared to his great gifts, yet we cannot offer him any other recognition, he who is perfection itself and has no need of anything. Let us love our Father with all our strength and ardor of soul and we shall win immortality. The more we love God, the more is our nature incorporated and mingled with his own.
The second commandment, Jesus says, yields in nothing to the first: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (…) When the scholar of the Law asks Jesus: “And who is my neighbor?” (Lk 10:29), he does not reply by giving the Jewish definition of neighbor – family, fellow Jews, proselytes, those who live according to the same Law – but tells the story of a traveler who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Wounded by robbers (…), the man was cared for by a Samaritan who “showed himself a neighbor” (v. 36).
And who is even more of a neighbor to me than our Savior? Who showed more compassion to us when the powers of darkness had left us battered by blows? (…) Jesus alone knew how to heal our wounds and root out the evils planted in our hearts (…). That is why we should love him just as much as we love God. And loving Christ Jesus is to carry out his will and keep his commandments.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 20, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Eustace &, St. Andrew Taegon (20 September): Shedding Your Blood for Christ
Daily Readings for September 19, 2026
St. Januarius (September 19) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
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– When God’s Word Takes Root – Saturday, September 19, 2026
Saint John-Mary Vianney (1786-1859)
priest, curé of Ars
Sermon
“Some seed fell on good soil, and… produced fruit a hundredfold.”
If you ask me what Jesus Christ means by this sower who goes out early to cast his seed over his field then, my brethren, that sower is the good God himself, who began the work of our salvation from the beginning of the world by sending us his prophets before the coming of Christ to teach us what was needed if we would be saved. Not content with sending his servants, he came himself; he marked out the way we should take; he came to make known his holy word.
Do you know what a person is like who is not fed by this holy word?… Such a person is like a patient without a doctor, a traveller who is lost and without a guide, a poverty stricken person without means of help. Brethren, it is absolutely impossible to love and please God unless we are fed by this divine word. What can draw us to follow him unless by knowing him? And who enables us to know him, with all his perfections, beauty and love for us, if not the word of God, who teaches us about everything he has done for us and the good things he has in store for us in the next life?
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Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Hebrews 10,32-38.
My brethren, call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward. For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise. For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay. But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 24,3-13.
When Jesus was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world? And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will seduce many. And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.
Saint Ephrem (c.306-373)
deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on the Diatessaron, 18,15 ; SC 121 (trans. cf breviary 1st Thursday of Advent)
At an hour you do not know the Son of Man will come
To prevent his disciples from questioning him about the time of his coming Christ said: “Of that hour no one knows, neither the angels nor the Son” (Mt 24,36). It is not for you to know the days or the hour” (Acts 1,7). He hid the time from us so that we would be on the watch and so that each of us might think that the coming will happen in his own lifetime. If he had revealed when he was to come again, his coming would have been made pointless and the peoples and ages in which it will take place would no longer yearn for it. He said that he will come again, indeed, but he did not say exactly when. Hence, all generations and ages live in eager expectation of him.
The Lord pointed out the signs of his coming but we have no knowledge of when they will be completed. In many varied ways they have happened and passed away and are still happening. His last coming is, in fact, like his first: the just and the prophets longed for him, thinking that he was to appear in their day. So, today, each of the faithful wants to receive him in his own lifetime, and even more so in that Jesus did not reveal the day of his coming. His reason for this was so that no one might think that the Christ is subject to a law of time or a given hour, he who is lord over numbers and times.
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Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Januarius (19 September) – This Saint’s Blood Liquefies Every Year… And Science Can’t Explain It
Daily Readings for September 18, 2026
– St. Joseph of Cupertino (September 18) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
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– The Hope of the Resurrection – Friday, September 18, 2026
Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)
Benedictine nun
The Herald of Divine Love, Book III, ch. 30 (SC 143. Trans. © Margaret Winkworth, 1993)
The divine Heart attracted by our humility
Sometimes when meditating she began to see her interior deformities and to be so displeased with herself that with anxiety she would wonder how she could ever be pleasing to God, who would see so many stains in her, for where she saw only one stain the penetrating eyes of the divinity would see an infinite number.
She was reassured about this by the divine reply: “Love makes pleasing.” By this she understood that if on earth human love has such power that sometimes it makes the deformed pleasing, for love’s sake, to those who love them, and even at times so pleasing that the lovers, through the power of love, want to resemble their loved ones, how then be distrustful of God, who is Love itself? Cannot he, through the power of love, make pleasing those whom he loves?
Another time, when she was downcast at the memory of her former sins to such an extent that she desired only to hide herself completely, the Lord deigned to incline with such gracious condescension toward her that the whole court of heaven seemed to be trying to restrain him as if in astonishment. The Lord responded thus: “Nothing can restrain me from following her when she so powerfully attracts my heart by the cords of her humility.”
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Readings & Reflection
First Epistle to the Corinthians 13,1-8.
Brethren, If I speak wih the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth: Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 22,1-14.
Jesus spoke again in parables unto his disciples, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son. And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the marriage: and they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage. But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise. And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death. But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage. And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests. And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent. Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.
Saint Hilary (c.315-367)
Bishop of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Matthew’s gospel, 6, 4-5 (cf. PL 9, 952-953)
“They do not practice what they preach”
The Lord warns us that flattering words and sweet promises should be judged by the fruits they produce. We have to value someone, therefore, not by how they present themselves in speech but as they really are in their deeds. Often enough, beneath an outward show of a lamb a ravening wolf is concealed (Mt 7:15). And just as thorns do not produce grapes nor thistles produce figs…, even so, Jesus says, genuinely good works do not consist in fine words such as these. Each one should be judged according to their fruits (vv. 16-18).
No indeed, a service that was limited to fine words would not suffice to obtain the Kingdom of heaven. It is not those who say “Lord, Lord” who will inherit it (v. 21)… What sense would a holiness be that was limited to the invocation of a name? For the Kingdom of heaven is to be found in obedience to God’s will…
We ought, then, to put something of our own into it if we want to attain eternal blessedness. We have to give something out of our own resources: desire good, avoid evil and obey the divine precepts with all our hearts. An attitude such as this will make us worthy of being acknowledged as one of his own by God. Therefore, let us conform our actions to his will instead of taking pride in his power. For he will resist and reject those who have themselves turned away from him by the injustice of their deeds.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 18, 2026
Daily Readings for September 17, 2026
– The Stigmata of St. Francis (September 17) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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– The Love That Forgives – Thursday, September 17, 2026
Homily attributed to Saint Macarius of Egypt (?-390)
monk
Spiritual Homilies, 30, 9
The Pharisee’s welcome and the welcome of the sinful woman
Let us welcome our God and Lord, the true doctor who, by coming to us, is alone able to heal our souls, he who strove so mightily on our behalf. He is constantly knocking on the door of our hearts for us to open to him and let him in so that he can recline in our souls, making his home with us, and we can wash his feet and pour perfume over them. Indeed, Jesus rebukes the one who failed to wash his feet and elsewhere he says: “Behold I stand at the door…; if anyone opens the door I will enter his house” (Rv 3,20). In fact, this is the reason why he bore such great suffering, delivering up his body to death and redeeming us from slavery: it was so that he might enter our souls and make his home there.
This was why our Lord says to those who are to stand on his left side at the judgement and be cast into the eternal fire: “I was a stranger and you gave me no welcome; I was hungry and you gave me no food; thirsty, and you gave me no drink” (cf. Mt 25,42f.) Because his food and drink, his clothing, shelter and rest are all within our heart. This is why he is always knocking, trying to come in to our house. So let us welcome him and bring him inside, within us, since he is our food, drink and eternal life, too.
And those souls who do not now receive him within, for him to find his rest in them, or rather that they might find rest in him, will not inherit the Kingdom of heaven with the saints or be able to enter the heavenly city. But you, O Lord Jesus Christ, grant us to enter there, we who glorify your name with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ages unending. Amen.
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Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Ephesians 3,13-21.
Wherefore, brethren, I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man: That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity, You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us: To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations, world without end. Amen.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 14,1-11.
And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent him away. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day? And they could not answer him to these things. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Saint Bruno of Segni (c.1045-1123)
Bishop
Commentary on the Gospel according to Luke, 2:14
“He who humbles himself shall be exalted”
“You spread a table before me in the sight of my foes” (Ps 23[22]:5)… What more could we desire? Why would we choose the places of honor? Whatever place we occupy, we have everything in abundance and lack nothing. But you who want to have the place of honor, whoever you might be, go and sit in the lowest place. Do not let your knowledge make your head swell with pride; do not allow yourself to be exalted by means of your reputation. Instead, the greater you are, the more you must humble yourself in everything and “you will find favor with God” (Lk 1:30), so much so that at the favorable time he will say to you: “My friend, come up higher,” and “this will win you the esteem of your fellow guests.”
Most certainly, so far as it depended on him, Moses occupied the lowest place. When the Lord wanted to send him to the children of Israel and invited him to come higher, he answered: “If you please, Lord, send someone else, for I am slow of speech.” (Ex 4:13.10) It is as though he had said: “I am not worthy of such a high function.” Saul also considered himself to be a man of humble condition when the Lord made him king. And in the same way, Jeremiah, afraid to go up to the place of honor, said: “Ah, Lord God! I do not know how to speak; I am too young.” (1:6) It is thus through humility, not pride, through the virtues, not money that we must seek to occupy the place of honor.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 17, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi (17 September): Conformed to Christ Crucified
Daily Readings for September 16, 2026
– Pope St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian (September 16) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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– Love That Never Fails – Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Saint Basil (c.330-379)
monk and Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Doctor of the Church
Longer monastic Rules, prologue
God call us unwearyingly to conversion
How long are we going to put off obeying Christ, who calls us into his heavenly Kingdom? Aren’t we going to purify ourselves? Won’t we resolve to forsake our customary way of life to follow the Gospel radically?… We claim to want the Kingdom of God yet without bothering to concern ourselves with the means of obtaining it.
What is more, in the conceitedness of our souls, without taking the least trouble to obey the Lord’s commandments, we think ourselves worthy to receive the same reward as those who have resisted sin to the death! But how could anyone sit and sleep at home during the time of sowing and then gather sheaves by the armful at harvest? Who has ever brought in the grapes without having planted and tended the vine? Fruit is for those who have toiled; rewards and crowns for those who have conquered. Has anyone ever crowned an athlete who did not even strip to fight his opponent? And yet, not only must we win but we must also “fight according to the rules”, as the apostle Paul says, that is to say according to the commandments we have been given…
God is good; but he is also just…: “The Lord loves justice and right” (Ps 32:5); that is why, “of kindness and judgement I will sing” (Ps 100:1)… See how wisely the Lord exercises kindness. He is not gracious without consideration, nor does he judge without mercy for, “gracious is the Lord and just” (Ps 115:5). So don’t underestimate God: his love for men should not become a pretext for negligence on our part.
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Readings & Reflection
Book of Wisdom 3,1-8.
The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.
In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 21,9-19.
Jesus said to His disciples: When you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified. These things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently. Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and pestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be great signs. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name’s sake.
And it shall happen unto you for a testimony. Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay. And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren and kinsmen and friends: and some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake. But a hair of your head shall not perish. In your patience you shall possess your souls.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 306
“By your perseverance you will secure your lives”
Do you want to come to that life where you will be sheltered from error forever? Who does not want this? (…) We all desire life and truth but how are we to attain it? What path are we to follow? Certainly, we have not reached the end of the journey yet we can already see it, (…), we yearn for life and truth. Christ is both one and the other. What is the way to it? “I am the way,” he says. To what will we come? “I am the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6).
This is what the martyrs loved; this is why they looked beyond the love of present goods that pass away. Don’t be astonished at their bravery: in them love overcame suffering. (…) Let us walk in their footsteps, our eyes fixed on him who is both their Leader and ours. If we would come to so great a happiness, let us not be afraid of treading difficult paths. He who has promised is true; he is faithful; he could not deceive us. (…) Why fear the hard road of suffering and tribulation? Our Savior in person has trodden it.
You answer: “But that was him, the Savior!” Know that the apostles passed that way too. Now you’re going to say: “But they were apostles!” Yes, I know. But don’t forget that a great many people like yourself have trodden it in their turn (…), women have trodden it, too (…) children, even young girls have gone that way. How could the road that so many passers-by have levelled still be too hard?
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-16
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 16, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
– Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian (16 September): The Persecution of the 3rd Century Against the Christians
Daily Readings for September 15, 2026
– The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 15) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.15.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.15.26 | Tuesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Mary Who Stays at the Cross – Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara
Meditations on the Gospels, Spiritual Writings of Charles de Foucauld
Son, Behold your mother!
“Behold your Son”—these words are addressed to the Blessed Virgin; Our Lord gives all human beings to her as children, commanding her to have a mother’s heart for each of them… She has fulfilled—and will continue throughout eternity to fulfill with incomparable perfection—this command of God, just as she has all others. Let us, then, be absolutely certain that she holds a mother’s heart for every human being, and let us turn to this cherished and all-powerful Mother in all our needs, with the same confidence a child places in his mother—a mother who loves him infinitely more than any earthly mother could, and who can obtain for him from God absolutely everything that is truly good for the soul…
“Behold your mother.” These words are addressed to every soul. We must all treat the Blessed Virgin as our Mother and render to her the duties a good son owes to a truly good Mother: affection, honor, service, and trust—in a word, everything that Our Lord Himself rendered to the Blessed Virgin! Let us love her, honor her, and draw close to her by conversing with her in prayer; let us serve her by doing our utmost to support the works she favors and all those undertaken in her honor; let us place absolute trust in her and invoke her without hesitation—with that very confidence—in all our needs, desires, undertakings, works, and actions… Let us show ourselves to be the most tender of sons toward her, remembering that this is an essential aspect of both obedience to Jesus and imitation of Jesus: obedience, because He commands it so explicitly and solemnly, even from the Cross; and imitation, for He was always the model of a son to His mother…
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Judith 13,22-25.
And all the ancients of the city adored the Lord, and said to Judith: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought. And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 19,25-27.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.
Saint Bernard (1091-1153)
Cistercian monk and doctor of the Church
Sermon on the Sunday in the Octave of the Assumption, 14-15
A love without equal, after that of Christ
The martyrdom of the Virgin is suggested both by the prophecy of Simeon and by the very narrative of the passion of the Lord. “This one,” said the old man speaking of the child Jesus, “will be a sign of contradiction, and yourself,” he added to Mary, a sword will pierce her soul “(Lk 2, 34-35). Yes, blessed mother, your soul, a sword pierced her, and besides, it was only by penetrating her that he entered the flesh of your son. In fact, when your Jesus – which is everyone’s, but especially yours – had returned His Spirit, the cruel lance did not reach its soul. If, not saving him – even dead – it opened the his side, it could no longer cause Him pain. But your soul, it pierced: at that moment, hers was no longer there, but yours could not turn away from him. (…)
Maybe someone will say, “Didn’t she know in advance that she should die?” Yes, undoubtedly. “Wasn’t she hoping to see him resurrect immediately?” Yes, with confidence. “After that, she suffered when he was crucified?” Certainly, and with what violence! So who are you therefore, brother, and where does equivalent wisdom come from to surprise you more of the compassion of Mary, than from the passion of the son of Mary? He could die from the death of the body and she could not have died with him in heart? There, it is the work of a love that no one surpasses; Here, it is the result of a love that after the first has never had its equal.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-15
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 15, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September): A Brief & Guided Meditation of the Sorrows
Daily Readings for September 14, 2026
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
A meditation for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.
The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrated on September 14, commemorates the triumph and glory of the Cross of Christ, through which Our Lord redeemed the world. The feast recalls especially the recovery of the True Cross from the Persians by the Emperor Heraclius in the seventh century and its solemn restoration to Jerusalem, while also celebrating the earlier dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. The Church rejoices that the instrument of Christ’s humiliation and death has become the glorious sign of His victory over sin and Satan, teaching the faithful to venerate the Cross not merely as an historical relic, but as the sacred altar upon which the price of our salvation was paid. On this day, Christians are invited to glory in the Cross, embrace its sacrifices, and follow Christ along the way of self-denial, knowing that through the Cross comes resurrection, victory, and eternal life.
Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readings of the Liturgical Year, from Trinity Sunday until Advent, were not directly authored by Dom Prosper, but were the work of his disciple Dom Lucien Fromage.
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.14.26 | Monday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.14.26 | Monday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– The Cross That Reveals God’s Love – Monday, September 14, 2026
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Carmelite
Poem 114, Complete Works
The dwelling-place of every soul that loves
“Where, then, did He dwell, if not in sorrow?”
In immense pain, in supreme sorrow?
It is the dwelling-place of every soul that loves
And conforms its life to that of the Savior.
Do not fear suffering; it is a pledge of love.
“bury yourself wholly inthe shadow of the Cross;
He that it supports shall grant you light.”
He will strengthen you to struggle each day.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Philippians 2,5-11.
My brethren, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 12,31-36.
Jesus said to His disciples: now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself. (Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.) The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man? Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth. Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and hid himself from them.
Symeon the New Theologian (c.949-1022)
Greek monk, saint of the Orthodox churches
Hymn 18
You are light, Lord
Who, Lord, can speak of you? Your works, your glory, and your knowledge are utterly incomprehensible and ungraspable. Yet we have hope, we possess faith, and we know the love you have given us, boundless, inexpressible, and indescribable; it is light, inaccessible light, the light that acts in all.
For what does this light not do, and what is it not? It is charm and joy, sweetness and peace, mercy without number, abyss of compassion. Invisible, it is seen; and it is understood without being able to contain it. Untouchable, intangible, it can be grasped by my mind. When I possess it, I do not notice it; I see it only when it departs; I rush to seize it, and it flies away entirely. I do not know what to do and I am consumed. I learn to ask and seek with tears in great humility, and not to consider as possible what transcends nature, nor as the effect of my power or human effort, what comes from the compassion of God and his infinite mercy. (…)
Light invites silence and teaches almighty humility. When, therefore, I acquire it and become humble, from that moment on, it too remains with me inseparably, unites itself to me and enlightens me; it looks at me and I look at it. It is in my heart and it is found in heaven; it reveals the Scriptures to me, brings me knowledge, and teaches me mysteries I cannot express.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-14
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 14, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Exaltation of the Cross (14 September) – Embrace Your Cross
Daily Readings for September 13, 2026
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.13.26 | Sunday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.13.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II
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– The Freedom of Forgiveness – Sunday, September 13, 2026
– Keith Nester – unpacking The Mass – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Saint Cyprian (c.200-258)
Bishop of Carthage and martyr
The Lord’s Prayer, 23-24
“Forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors”
The Lord demands that we ourselves forgive the debts of our debtors just as we, too, ask that our own be forgiven (Mt 6,12). We should know that we cannot receive what we ask with regard to our own sins unless we do the same for those who have sinned against us. And so Christ says elsewhere: “The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you,” (Mt 7,2). And the servant who, having been freed from all his debt, was unwilling to forgive that of his fellow servant was thrown into prison. Because he would not spare his fellow, he lost that for which his master had spared him. Christ establishes this even more forcibly in his precepts when he decrees that…: “When you stand to pray, forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance, so that your heavenly Father may in turn forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your transgressions,” (Mk 11,25-26).
When Abel and Cain first of all offered sacrifice, God did not look at their offerings but at their hearts (Gn 4,3f.). The one whose offering was pleasing to him was the one whose heart was pleasing to him. Abel, the peaceful and just one, by making his offering to God in innocence, taught others to come forward in the fear of God to offer their gift at the altar, with a simple heart, a sense of justice, harmony and peace. By offering sacrifice to God with such dispositions as these he merited to become a precious offering himself and to be the first to offer the witness of martyrdom. By the glory of his blood he prefigured the Lord’s Passion because he possessed the Lord’s righteousness and peace. Men like these are they who are crowned by the Lord and who will obtain justice along with him on the day of judgement.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Ephesians 3,13-21.
Wherefore, brethren, I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man: That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity, You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us: To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations, world without end. Amen.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 14,1-11.
And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him. And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.
And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent him away. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath day?
And they could not answer him to these things. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him: And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Blessed Guerric of Igny (c.1080-1157)
Cistercian abbot
Liturgical sermons (cf. lectionary)
Jesus at table with the Pharisees
The world’s eternal and invisible Creator, preparing to save humankind, which for long ages had been hindered by its subjection to the heavy law of death, deigned “in these last days” (Heb 1:2) to become man (…) that in his mercy he might redeem those who in justice he condemned. And so as to show the depth of his love for us, he not only became a man but a poor and humble man so that, by drawing near to us in his poverty, he might make us sharers in his riches (2 Cor 8:9). So poor did he become for our sake that he had nowhere to lay his head: “Foxes have dens and the birds of the air have their nest, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Mt 8:20).
This is the reason why he agreed to go and dine wherever he was invited, not out of an excessive enjoyment in eating but so that he could teach the way of salvation and stimulate faith. There he would fill the guests with light by his miracles and the servants, who were kept busy inside and were not free to go with him, would hear the words of salvation. Indeed, he despised no one and none were considered unworthy of his love because “he has mercy on all; he hates nothing of what he has made and takes care of them all” (Wsd 11:24).
So that he might carry out this work of salvation the Lord entered the house of an eminent Pharisee on the sabbath. The scribes and Pharisees watched him with the intention of calling him to account, so that if he were to cure the man with dropsy they could accuse him of breaking the Law and, if he did not, they could accuse him of blasphemy or inability (…) By the pure light of his word of truth they were to see the darkness of their deceit vanish away.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-13
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 13, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Ss. Aigulf & Marcellinus of Carthage (13 September): 2 Forgotten Saints & Power of Patient Suffering
Daily Readings for September 12, 2026
The Most Holy Name of Mary (September 12) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
A meditation for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.
The Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary honors the sacred name of the Blessed Virgin, a name chosen by God and associated with the Mother of Our Savior from the beginning of her life. The name Mary, while having several proposed meanings, has traditionally been understood as signifying such qualities as beauty, sovereignty, and bitterness, fittingly expressing the dignity and virtues of her who was chosen to be the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. Devotion to Mary’s holy name grew especially after the Christian victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, and the feast was extended to the universal Church by Pope Innocent XI as a thanksgiving for that victory. The feast invites the faithful to honor the name of Mary with love and confidence, remembering that she is the merciful Mother and powerful intercessor of Christians, and that her name, like her person, leads the faithful to her divine Son, Jesus Christ.
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.12.26 | Saturday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.12.26 | Saturday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– A Life Built on Christ – Saturday, September 12, 2026
Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)
Benedictine nun
The Herald of Divine Love Book 3
Desire nothing but God’s will
Through the text of Isaiah: “You will give glory to God by not following your ways” (cf. Is 51:17) Gertrude understood that the one who, thinking beforehand about what he is going to do or say and seeing that it is of no use, curbs his attraction, derives a triple benefit from it. First, (…) it is given to him to find sweeter delights in God. Secondly, evil thoughts will have less hold on him (…). Thirdly, in eternal life the Son of God will grant him a more abundant participation in the fruits of that eminent holiness of life which made him face with imposing nobility every temptation and triumph over it gloriously. (…)
Through the text: “Behold, his reward is with him” (cf. Is 40:10), she understood how the Lord, in his love, is himself the reward of his elect, lavishing himself with so much sweetness that the soul who loves him can say in all truth that he has been, through the effect of extreme goodness, rewarded far beyond all merit. “And his work is before him” (ibid.) means that having entrusted himself entirely to divine Providence and having for desire, in all action, only the will of God, God grants him to already be perfect before him. (…) She understood that whoever, sincerely doing penance for everything he had committed or omitted, had a right heart to obey the precepts of God, would in all truth be sanctified before God. (…)
Through this text: “Sing to the Lord a new song” (cf. Is 42:10), she understood that she sings to the Lord a new song which puts into her song the impetus of an interior gift; because, by the very fact that this grace came to her from God to turn this impulse towards him, the new act which results from it will be pleasing to God.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Sirach 24,23-31.
I bud forth delights like the vine, my blossoms become fruit fair and rich. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb. My memory is unto everlasting generations. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. They that explain me shall have life everlasting.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,26-38.
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end. And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man? And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren. Because no word shall be impossible with God.
And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)
Benedictine nun
Exercises VI, SC 127 (trans. © Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo 1989)
May the most glorious Virgin Mother Mary be jubilant !
May the holy divinity of your glory, my God, O my gentleness, with which you deigned to fill and to inhabit for nine months the chaste viscera of the Virgin Mary, bless you. May the highest virtue of your divinity, which bent to the humbleness of the virginal valley, bless you. May the utmost art of your almightiness, God most high, with which you imparted onto the virgin rose such virtue, radiance, and comeliness as you yourself could yearn for, bless you. May your wondrous wisdom, whose copious grace made all of Mary’s life and body, as well as her soul, comparable with your worthiness, bless you. May you strong, wise and most dulcet love which made you, the flower and spouse of virginity, become the Son of a virgin, bless you. (…)
May the worthiest heart and soul of the most glorious Virgin Mother Mary (whom, because of my need for salvation, you chose for yourself as mother and that her motherly clemency might always be open to me) be jubilant to you on my behalf. May that most faithful concern which is yours for me (by which you have provided me with an advocate and patron saint of such capability that through her I may easily be able to find your grace, and in whom, I trustfully believe, your eternal mercy is preserved for me) be jubilant to you. May that wonderful tabernacle of your glory, which alone has ministered to you worthily as a holy dwelling place, and through which you can best make amends for me to yourself for the due measure of praise and glory that I owe you, be jubilant to you.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-12
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 12, 2026
Daily Readings for September 11, 2026
Fourth Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the BVM (September 11) — From Dom Guéranger
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.11.26 | Friday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Sing the Hours uploaded: Divine Office 9.11.26 | Friday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– See Clearly Before Leading – Friday, September 11, 2026
Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444)
Bishop, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, 6; PG 72, 601 (©Friends of Henry Ashworth)
The well trained disciple will be like his master
The blessed disciples were to be the spiritual guides and teachers of the whole world. It had therefore to be dearly seen by all that they held fast to the true faith. It was essential for them to be familiar with the gospel way of life, skilled in every good work, and to give teaching that was precise, salutary, and scrupulously faithful to the truth they themselves had long pondered, enlightened by the divine radiance. Otherwise they would be blind leaders of the blind. Those imprisoned in the darkness of ignorance can never lead others in the same sorry state to knowledge of the truth. Should they try, both would fall headlong into the ditch of the passions.
To destroy the ostentatious passion of boastfulness and stop people from trying to win greater honor than their teachers, Christ declared: “The disciple is not above his teacher.” Even if some should advance so far as to equal their teachers in holiness, they ought to remain within the limits set by them, and follow their example. Paul also taught this when he said: “Be imitators of me as I am of Christ,” (1Cor 11,1).
So then, if the Master does not judge, why are you judging? He came not to judge the world (Jn 12,47), but to take pity on it. What he is saying, then, is this: “If I do not pass judgment, neither must you, my disciple. You may be even more guilty of the faults of which you accuse another… “Why do you look for the speck in your brother’s eye?”
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden.
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Braulion of Saragossa (c.590-651)
Bishop
Letter 19; PL 80, 665
“When the Lord saw her… he said to her: ‘Do not weep’” (Lk 7,13)
Christ, hope of the believer, does not call those who leave this world ‘dead’ but ‘sleeping’ when he says: “Our friend Lazarus is asleep” (Jn 11,11). The apostle Paul, likewise, does not want us to be grieved “about those who have fallen asleep” (1Thes 4,13). By this, if our faith holds that “everyone who believes” in Christ, according to his word in the Gospel, “will never die” (Jn 11,26), we know that he himself is not dead and we too will not die. Because “the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven and the dead will rise” (1Thes 4,16). May hope in the resurrection encourage us, then, since we shall see then all those we have lost. It matters that we should firmly believe in him, that is to say that we obey his precepts, since he applies his mighty power to raising the dead with more ease than we rouse those who are asleep.
This is what we say; and yet, I don’t know through what feeling, we take refuge in tears and a feeling of regret compromises our faith. Alas! How pitiable man’s condition is, and without Christ how empty our life is! But you, O Death, who are cruel enough to break the union between spouses and separate those whom friendship unites, from henceforth your power has been shattered. From now on your pitiless yoke has been crushed by him who threatened you through the words of the prophet Hosea: “O death, I will be your death” (Hos 13,14 Vulg.). That is why we hurl our challenge together with the apostle Paul: “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1Cor 15,55). He who vanquished you has redeemed us; he has delivered his beloved soul into the hands of sinners that he might make them his beloved friends.
It would take too long to call to mind everything in Holy Scripture that should bring us all consolation. It is enough to hope in the resurrection and raise our eyes to the glory of our Redeemer since it is in him that we are already raised, as our faith gives us to believe, according to the apostle Paul’s words: “If we have died with Christ we believe that we shall also live with him” (Rom 6,8).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 11, 2026
Daily Readings for September 10, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
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– Divine Office 9.10.26 | Thursday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Love Beyond Limits – Thursday, September 10, 2026
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe
Letter 42 to the king of Hungary
Signs of perfect charity
Dearest Father in Christ, the gentle Jesus—I, Catherine, the slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious blood, desiring to see you grounded in true and perfect charity. (…)
This is one of the particular signs showing whether or not a soul dwells in charity. It despises no one but patiently bears the faults of others; it does not grow angry but is full of gentleness; it renders a man not unjust but just, leading him to give each person their due, whether he obeys or commands. He gives glory to God and praise to His name; he harbors hatred and horror for sin, while holding love and benevolence for his neighbor. If he is in a position of power and must administer justice, he listens to the great and the small, the poor and the rich alike. He does not stain his conscience by yielding to flattery, threats, pleasure, or displeasure; rather, he holds the scales straight, rendering to each what justice demands. He serves his neighbor with zeal, showing them the love he bears for God: he cannot render service to God directly, but he strives to serve what God loves so dearly—the rational creature, who is given to him as an intermediary.
How sweet is charity, that tender mother! It is free from bitterness and always brings joy to the heart of the one who possesses it.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
First Epistle to the Corinthians 4,9-14.
Brethren, We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode. And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it. We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,32-34.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Blessed Guerric of Igny (c.1080-1157)
Cistercian abbot
Sermon for All Saints; PL 85,205
“Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God”
“Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”. The beginning of the New Testament is altogether joyful and full of fresh grace. It even nudges the unbeliever and sluggish to pay heed and, more to the point, to act by promising happiness to the unfortunate and the Kingdom of heaven to those in exile, those in any kind of distress. The beginning of the new Law is pleasant to hear and starts off under happy auspices since the Legislator follows on from this beginning by giving so many assurances of beatitude. In this way those who have been attracted by them will go from one virtue to the next, climbing the eight steps that this Gospel has set up and placed within our hearts… For it is clear that what it is all about is the ascent of the heart and of the progress of merit through eight steps of virtue, leading men gradually from the lowest to the highest levels of evangelical perfection. In this way they will at last enter and see the God of gods in Zion (Ps 84[83], 8), in his Temple, of which the prophet has said: “It had a stairway of eight steps,” (Ez 40,37).
The first virtue of the beginner is to renounce the world, through which we become poor in spirit; the second is gentleness, by which we submit ourselves and become accustomed to obedience; then the grief with which we lament our sins or with weeping beg for the virtues. These we certainly enjoy wherever we have the greatest hunger and thirst for justice, as much for ourselves as for others, and begin to be stirred by zeal against sinners. Yet, lest immoderate fervour turn into fault, the mercy by which it is tempered follows after. Through putting this into practice and training ourselves, when we have learnt how to be just and how to be merciful, then we may, perhaps, be capable of entering into contemplation and giving ourselves to the purification of our hearts so as to see God.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 10, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September): What Prevents You From Giving Your Life Entirely To Christ
Daily Readings for September 9, 2026
Second Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the BVM (September 9) — From Dom Guéranger
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.9.26 | Wednesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
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– Blessed in God’s Eyes – Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara
8 days at Ephraim, Spiritual writings of Charles de Foucauld
Blessed are those who empty themselves of everything, and are filled by me!
“Blessed are those who possess poverty of spirit; who not only reject material goods—which is the first step—but rise much higher and completely empty their souls of every attachment, every taste, every desire, and every pursuit that does not have Me as its goal… This poverty of spirit creates a complete void within the soul, emptying it of the love of material things, of love for one’s neighbor, and of self-love; it drives everything—absolutely everything—out, leaving only a space entirely empty, which I fill completely… Then, I restore to them, divinized, that love for material creatures which they had cast out of their souls to make room entirely for Me… They have driven these loves from their souls; I alone occupy their souls—emptied of all else and filled with Me. Yet in Me, and for My sake, they will begin to love all these things again—no longer for themselves, nor for the sake of the things themselves, but for Me: this is charity rightly ordered. They will love all creatures for My sake… Blessed are those who are so poor in spirit, so empty of all else, so full of Me!…”
“Blessed are those who hunger! Those who hunger for justice, for the reign of justice on earth, for My reign on earth, for My glory; who hunger to see Me glorified by every soul; who hunger to see My will perfectly accomplished by every being!… Therefore, always cherish this great hunger for justice—to see justice perfectly fulfilled, both by yourself and by all mankind; a hunger to see the will of God perfectly done by you and by all mankind;” …the hunger for your perfect sanctification and for perfect holiness in all men… It is this hunger that presses upon My own Heart!… Cherish this hunger more and more—not for your own sake, nor for the sake of men, but for the sake of God, out of love for God… Blessed, then, shall you be! For you will be perfectly united to My own Heart!…
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Athanasius (295-373)
Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church
On the Incarnation of the Word, 8 (trans. Breviary 02/05)
“Those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him”
The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible and immaterial, came down to our world. Not that he had been far from it before, since no part of creation was ever without him. Together with his Father he filled all things. But he came to us full of love for us and showed himself to us openly. He took pity on our race and our weakness and was moved by the corruption that had got the better of us.
He could not allow death to rule over us any longer. Had death prevailed, creation would have perished and the Father’s work in forming man would have been in vain… Therefore he took to himself a nature which was no different from ours. He built himself a temple, a body that is, in the womb of the Virgin, and so made himself an instrument in which to dwell and make himself known. In this way he took from us a body like our own and, since all are subject to the corruption of death, he surrendered his body to death for us all and led it to the Father lovingly for our sake.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 09, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Peter Claver (9 September): Love of God and Love of Neighbor
Daily Readings for September 8, 2026
– The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.8.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.8.26 | Tuesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Mary, Born for God’s Promise – Tuesday, September 8, 2026
St Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church
Prayers of Hildegard von Bingen, O virga ac diadema
O Virgin Mary, precious joy without end
O Virgin, O Diadem and purple mantle of the King,
Sealed Fountain, Flower that grows and blossoms
So differently from Adam, the father of mankind.
Savior of the human race,
You who brought forth the new Light,
Gather also the members of your Son into heavenly harmony.
O Glorious Mother of the holy Remedy
Through your immaculate Son, you have soothed the bitter wounds of death
That Eve brought forth to the torment of souls.
You have vanquished death and built the house of life.
Intercede for us with your Son, O Star of the Sea!
O Mediatrix, Dispenser of life, Jewel of our feasts,
You are the most precious of joys that shall have no end.
Pray for us, sweet Virgin Mary.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Proverbs 8,22-35.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth: He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:
When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 1,1-16.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot Jesse. And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa. And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias.
And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud. And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Isaac of Stella (?-c.1171)
Cistercian monk
Sermon 51 ; PL 194, 1862 (trans. breviary 2nd Saturday of Advent)
“Looking around at those seated in the circle, Jesus said: ‘Here are my mother and my brothers’ ” (Mk 3:34)
Rightly indeed does the Virgin Mary, who truly conceived the first born of all, hold first place in the congregation of the just. For Christ is “the firstborn of many brethren” (Rm 8:29) … And so, in the divinely inspired scriptures, what is said in general of the Virgin Mother the Church is said individually of the Virgin Mary; and what is said in the particular case of the Virgin Mother Mary is rightly understood of the Virgin Mother Church universally; and when mention is made of either, it is to be understood almost indifferently and conjointly of both.
Every faithful soul, spouse of the Word of God, mother, daughter and sister of Christ, is understood to be a virgin with her own form of fertility. This is said of the whole Church, more particularly of Mary, and individually of the faithful soul, by the Wisdom itself of God, the Father’s Word.
Therefore, the text continues: “I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord” (Sir 24:12). The inheritance of the Lord universally is the Church, more particularly Mary, and individually every faithful soul. Christ abode for nine months in the tent of Mary’s womb; he abides until the consummation of the ages in the tent of the Church’s faith; he will abide for ever and ever in the knowledge and love of the faithful soul.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 08, 2026 – The Meaning of the Word
The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary originated in the East, where it is mentioned very early, and was later observed at Rome by the time of Pope Sergius I. As Eve came forth from the side of Adam, Mary came forth bright and immaculate from the heart of the Eternal Word, prepared by God to be one day His living tabernacle and altar. Her birth is the dawn before the rising of the Sun of Justice, the mystic rod from the root of Jesse, the stream springing from Paradise, and the symbolical fleece stretched upon the dry earth to receive the miraculous dew. She is the new Eve, the life and Mother of all the living, born for those to whom the first Eve had become the mother of sin and death.
St. Hadrian, also known as St. Adrian was an officer in the Roman army. From persecuting Christians, he was so moved by their constancy that he embraced the Faith and suffered martyrdom toward the end of the third century. His commemoration honors the triumph of grace over hardness of heart and the courage of those who give witness to Christ unto death.
Feast / Saint of the Day
– The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (8 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 7, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.7.26 | Monday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.7.26 | Monday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Mercy That Restores – Monday, September 7, 2026
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397)
Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke’s Gospel, V, 39 (SC 45, p.197 rev.)
“There was a man there whose right hand was withered”
The same hand that Adam stretched out to pluck the fruit of the forbidden tree was filled by the Lord with the sap of good deeds so that, dried up by sin, it might be healed by its good deeds. On this occasion Christ took to task those enemies of his who, by their false interpretations, violated the commands of the Law. They considered that people should even set aside good deeds on the Sabbath day, whereas the Law was foreshadowing in the present the outlines of the future when, without any doubt at all, it will be evil that will no longer be working, not good…
You heard, then, the Lord’s words: “Stretch out your hand.” Here is the cure for us all. And as for you who believe your hands are clean, beware lest avarice and sacrilege paralyse it. Keep on stretching it out: stretch it out towards the poor man who is begging you; stretch it out to assist a neighbor, to bring help to a widow, to rescue from injustice someone you see to be subjected to undeserved humiliation; stretch it out towards God for your sins. This is how our hands are stretched out; this is how they heal.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden.
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 98
“The hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God”
“Awake, you sleeper, rise from the dead and Christ will give you light!” (Eph 5,14)… We often say of those who are manifestly dead that they are sleeping; and indeed they are all sleeping for the One who is able to awaken them. For you a dead person is truly dead: you may well slap and shake him…, he will not wake up. But for Christ, the man he commanded to “Rise up!” was merely sleeping and he rose up immediately (Lk 7,14). It is easy enough to waken a sleeper from his bed but Christ awakens a dead man from his tomb with even greater ease…
“By now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days” (Jn 11,39). But the Lord, for whom all things are done with ease, is coming… No bonds hold secure before the Savior’s voice. The powers over the dwellings of the dead tremble and Lazarus is restored to life… For Christ’s life-giving will even this death of four days is merely a sleep.
But reflect over the nature of this resurrection. Lazarus, coming alive out of the tomb, was as yet unable to walk. So the Lord commanded his disciples: “Untie him and let him go”. Christ raised him up; they set him free from his bonds. The true majesty of the God who brings the dead back to life emerges in this narrative. The Word of life (1Jn 1,1) exhorts those who are bound by their evil habits… Having been strongly admonished these sinners return to themselves, begin to reconsider their lives and feel the weight of the chains of their evil habits. Ashamed, they make up their minds to change their lives. From then on they are raised from death and brought back to life since they condemn their former way of living. However, even though they are alive once more, they cannot walk as yet…; their bonds have to be untied. This is the ministry our Lord entrusted to his disciples when he said: “Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Mt 18,18).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 07, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Regina, Virgen & Martyr (7 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 6, 2026
- The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.6.26 | Sunday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.6.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II
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– Love That Corrects – Sunday, September 6, 2026
– Keith Nester – unpacking The Mass – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Timer Year A
Saint Ephrem (c.306-373)
deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Unpublished hymn (quoted in André Louf, “Teach us to pray”, 1972)
“There am I in the midst of them”
Someone who celebrates alone in the heart of the wilderness,
is a great assembly.
If two together celebrate among the rocks,
thousands and tens of thousands are present there.
If three are gathered together,
a fourth is among them.
If there are six or seven together,
twelve thousand thousand are assembled.
If they range themselves in rank,
they fill the firmament with prayer!
If they be crucified on the rock, marked with a cross of light,
the Church is constituted.
When they come together,
the Spirit hovers over their heads,
When they end their prayer
the Lord rises to serve his servants (Lk 12:37; Jn 13:4).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden.
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.
Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)
Pope, Doctor of the Church
Book XIV, Moralia: Exposition of the book of Job
The hope of our resurrection!
He rose again on the third day, what then is to come after in His body, i.e. in the Church, He makes appear; for He shewed in example, what He promised in reward, that as believers knew and owned that He had Himself risen again, so they might hope for the rewards of the resurrection in themselves at the end of the world. Lo, we, through the death of the flesh, remain in the dust until the end of the world, but He on the third day budded into life from the dryness of death, that by the very renewal of His flesh by itself He might shew the power of His Divine Nature…. Already indeed the body of the Lord lives after death, but our bodies are kept back from the glory of the resurrection until the end of the world. Whence he carefully introduced this same delay, by saying, And that I shall rise at the last [novissimo] day from the earth.
Therefore we have a hope of our own resurrection, by considering the glory of our Head. But lest anyone say perhaps merely in the secret thought of his heart, that it was in this way that He rose again from the dead, viz. that being God and Man in one and the same Person, the death, which He underwent in His Human Nature, He overcame by His Divine Nature, while we, who are mere men, are not able to rise from the curse of death; it happened rightly that, in the season of His resurrection, the bodies of many of the Saints arose at the same time, that both in Himself He might shew us an example, and by the resurrection of others who were like to ourselves in respect of a mere human nature, He might give us a sure confirmation.
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Daily Readings for September 1, 2026
– St. Laurence Justinian (September 5) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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– Mercy Is Greater Than Rules – Saturday, September 5, 2026
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
On the literal meaning of Genesis, IV, 13-14
Enter into the rest of the Lord
“God looked at everything he had made: that it was good … And he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken,” (Gen 1:31-2,2). We see that God’s works are good and we shall see his rest after all our own works, if they are good. It was as a sign of this rest that he ordained the observance of the Sabbath to the Hebrews. However, they practiced it in so material a way that they accused our Lord when they saw him working out our salvation on that particular day. This earned them the pointed reply: “My Father is at work until now and so I work,” (Jn 5:17), not just in upholding all creation together with him but, even more, in working out our salvation.
But when grace was revealed, the faithful were relieved of their Sabbath observance, which comprised the rest of a single day. Now, by grace, Christians observe a perpetual Sabbath, if the good things they do are done in hope of the coming rest and they do not glory in their good works as though they were their own and not something they had received. By doing this, and by receiving and considering the sacrament of baptism as a Sabbath, that is to say as the Lord’s rest in the tomb (Rom 6:4), they rest from their former works, walk the ways of a new life and acknowledge that God acts in them – God, who both acts in them in that he rules over his creatures as they require, and who rests in that he possesses within himself everlasting repose.
God was not worn out by creating nor rested in ceasing to create but, through the language of Holy Scripture, he wanted to stir up in us a desire for his rest … He wanted to make this day holy … as though, even for him who is unwearied in working, rest is of more value than action. This is indeed what the Gospel teaches us when the Savior tells us that Mary, when she sat and remained in rest at his feet to hear his word, had chosen a part better than that of Martha, even though the latter was busy with the good work of serving (Lk 10:39f.).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Sirach 44,16-23.45,3-15.
Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation. Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came. The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood. Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful. Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth, And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his judgments. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi: He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory, And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about, That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth: Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for its beauty. Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,14-23.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods; And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey. And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the earth and hid his lord’s money. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. Behold I have gained other five over and above. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other two. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 05, 2026
Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio” (1887-1968)
Capuchin
TN in Letters 4, 875,878
“After a long time the master of those servants came back”
“Brothers, up till now we have done nothing at all: so let us begin today.” It was to himself that Saint Francis addressed this counsel; let us humbly make it our own. How true it is that we have done nothing – or very little – as yet! One year follows another without our asking ourselves what we could have made of them. Hasn’t there been anything to change, to add or take away from our way of behaving? How carelessly we have lived, as though the day were never going to come when the eternal Judge would call us to himself and we would have to give an account of our deeds and of what we have done with our time.
Don’t let us waste our time. We ought not to put off for tomorrow what we could do today. The grave overflows with good intentions and, in any case, who can say whether tomorrow we shall still be alive? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience; it is the voice of the prophet: “Oh that today you would hear his voice: Harden not your heart,” (Ps 95[94]: 7-8).
All we have is the present moment: so let us keep a watch over it and live it as though it were a treasure entrusted to us. Time doesn’t belong to us; don’t let us waste it.
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– St. Laurence Justinian, 1st Patriarch of Venice (5 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 4, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
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– New Wine for a New Heart – Friday, September 4, 2026
Saint Paschasius Radbertus (?-c.849)
Benedictine monk
Commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, 10,22
“The two shall be made into one. This is a great foreshadowing; I mean that it refers to Christ and the church.” (Eph 5:31)
A strange and extraordinary union occurred when “the Word became flesh” in the Virgin’s womb and thus “made his dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14). Just as all the elect were raised in Christ when he rose, so was this wedding celebrated in him, and the Church was united with the Spouse through the bonds of marriage when the man-God received the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and when the divinity came to dwell in his body… Christ became man through the Holy Spirit, and in his quality as Spouse he came out of the womb of the Virgin, who was his nuptial chamber. But when the Church is born again of water in that same Spirit, she becomes one body in Christ, so much so that the two “become as one,” (Mt 19:5), which in reference to Christ and the Church “is a great foreshadowing.” (Eph 5:31).
This marriage continues from the beginning of the Incarnation of Christ until the moment when Christ will come again and all the rites of nuptial union will be fulfilled. Then those who are ready and who, as is necessary, will have fulfilled the conditions for such a great union, will be filled with respect and will enter with him into the eternal wedding hall(Mt 25:10). While she is waiting, Christ’s promised Spouse advances and every day keeps her covenant with him in faith and affection until he returns again.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,16-24.
I, Paul, say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407)
priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on Saint Matthew’s gospel, no. 21, 1 ; PG 57, 294-296
“You cannot serve God and mammon”
See what benefits Jesus Christ promises and how beneficial his commands are to us since they set us free from such great evils. The misery caused you by riches, he says to us, is not just that of arming thieves against you and filling your mind with impenetrable gloom. The great wound they inflict is to snatch you away from the blessed service of Jesus Christ to make you slaves of a piece of senseless, soulless metal.
“You cannot serve both God and money.” My brethren, let us shudder at the thought that we are forcing Jesus Christ to speak to us about money as though it were an alternative divinity to God ! But surely, you will say, didn’t the patriarchs of old find it possible to serve God and money at the same time? Certainly not. But how, then, was it that Abraham and Job set such store by their wealth? I reply that there’s no question here of invoking those who possessed riches but those who were possessed by them. Job was a rich man; he made use of money without being its slave; he was its master, not its worshipper. He considered his wealth as though it had been another’s and saw himself as its administrator, not its proprietor. (…) That was why he was not the least bothered when he lost it.
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Daily Readings for September 3, 2026
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– Called to Follow – Thursday, September 3, 2026
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 43, 5-6 ; CCL 41, 510-511 (©Friends of Henry Ashworth)
“Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch”
How great was Christ’s courtesy! This Peter who spoke these words was once a fisherman and in our day a public speaker deserves high praise if he is able to converse with a fisherman! Addressing the first Christians the apostle Paul says: “Brothers and sisters, remember what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise according to human standards; not many of you were influential or of noble birth. But God chose what the world regards as weak in order to disconcert the strong; God chose what the world regards as foolish in order to abash the wise; God chose what the world regards as common and contemptible, of no account whatever, in order to overthrow the existing order” (1Cor 1:26-28).
If Christ had first chosen a man skilled in public speaking, such a man might well have said: “I have been chosen on account of my eloquence.” If he had chosen a senator, the senator might have said: “I have been chosen because of my rank” If his first choice had been an emperor, the emperor surely might have said: “I have been chosen for the sake of the power I have at my disposal.” Let these worthies keep quiet and defer to others; let them hold their peace for a while. I am not saying they should be passed over or despised; I am simply asking all those who can find any grounds for pride in what they are to give way to others just a little.
Christ says: Give me this fisherman, this man without education or experience, this man to whom no senator would deign to speak, not even if he were buying fish. Yes, give me him; once I have taken possession of him, it will be obvious that it is I who am at work in him. Although I mean to include senators, orators, and emperors among my recruits… I shall still be surer of the fisherman. The senator can always take pride in what he is; so can the orator and the emperor, but the fisherman can glory in nothing except Christ alone. Any of these other men may come and take lessons from me in the importance of humility for salvation, but let the fisherman come first.
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Readings & Reflection
First Epistle to the Thessalonians 2,2-8.
Brethren, having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.
For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit. But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts. For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness): Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children: So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 21,15-17.
When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermons on Saint John’s Gospel, no.123
“Tend my sheep”
The Lord asks Peter what he already knew, and that not just once but a second and a third time, whether Peter loved him. And each time he has the same answer, that he is loved, while just as often he gives Peter the same charge to feed His sheep. To the threefold denial there is now appended a threefold confession of love. His tongue is not to yield a feebler service to love than it did to fear, and the testimony of his word must be just as open in the presence of life as it was before the threat of death. If it was the sign of fear to deny the Shepherd then let it be the office of love to feed the Lord’s flock .
Those who have this as their purpose in feeding the flock of Christ, that they may have them as their own and not as Christ’s, are convicted of loving themselves and not Christ. They are motivated either by the desire of boasting, or of wielding power, or of acquiring gain, and not from the love of obeying, serving, and pleasing God. The thrice repeated saying of Christ condemns those, therefore, of whom the apostle complains that they seek their own interests, not the things that are Jesus Christ’s (Phil 2:21). For what do the words mean: “Do you love me? Feed my sheep”? It is as though he said, “If you love me, do not think of feeding yourself but feed my sheep as mine, and not as your own; seek my glory in them, and not your own; my dominion, and not yours; my gain, and not yours… So let us not love ourselves, but him; and in feeding his sheep, let us be seeking the things which are his, not the things which are our own.
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 03, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Pius X and His Example for Us
Daily Readings for September 2, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
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– The Healing Presence of Jesus – Wednesday, September 2, 2026
William of Saint-Thierry (c.1085-1148)
Benedictine, then a Cistercian monk
Meditations IV, 10-11 (trans. ©Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1970)
“Jesus left and went to a deserted place”
Lead me away, meanwhile, my refuge and my strength, into the heart of the desert as once you led your servant Moses; lead me where the bush burns, yet is not burnt up, where the holy soul that… is all aflame with the I fullness of the fire of your Holy Spirit, and, burning like the seraphim, is not consumed but cleansed…
The soul attains to the holy place where none may stand or take another step, except he be bare-footed—having loosed the shoe-strings of all fleshly hindrances… This is the place where He Who Is, who cannot be seen as he is, is notwithstanding heard to say, “I Am Who Am,” the place where, for the time, the soul must cover her face so that she does not see the face of God, and yet in humble obedience must use her ears to hear what the Lord God will say concerning her.
Hide me then in the day of evil, O Lord, in the secret place of your tabernacle, in the hidden recesses of your face, “far from the strife of tongues” (Ps 26[27],5; 30[31],21); for your yoke is easy and the burden you have laid on me is light (Mt 11,30). And when you show me the difference between your service and the service of the world, gently and tenderly you ask me if it is not better to serve you, the living God, than to serve strange gods (Cf 2 Chron 12,8). And I, for my part, adore the hand that lays the load, I kiss the yoke, and I embrace the burden; and it is very sweet to me to sweat beneath its weight. For masters other than you have long possessed me… I acknowledge your yoke, and your light burden that lifts me up and does not crush me down.
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Readings & Reflection
Book of Sirach 31,8-11.
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 19,12-26.
Jesus said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come. But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us. And it came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading, And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities. And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin. For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow. He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow. And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury? And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds. And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds. But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.
Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)
Benedictine nun
Exercises, 7, Prime (trans. cf. Thomas Alder Pope; SC 127, p. 265 rev.)
“He had the servants called”
O beloved Truth, O calmest equity of my God, how shall I dare to appear in your presence, bowed down as I am beneath the load of my iniquity…, the crushing weight of all my negligence? I have not been faithful, nor have I traded with the talent you entrusted me, the priceless treasure of Christian faith and the spiritual life. I ought to have committed your money to the bankers of your charity so that I might draw abundant interest of perfection from it and so give you back what belongs to you with interest. And not only have I spent your precious talent, my time, but I have wasted it, squandered it utterly away. Where shall I go? Who shall I turn to? “From your presence, where shall I flee?” (Ps 139[138],7).
O Truth, you have justice and equity as your inseparable judges… Woe to me if, when I come before you, I lack an advocate to plead my cause. O Love, come forward on my behalf; answer for me; sue for my pardon. If you plead my cause, I know I still have hope of life.
I know what I will do: “The cup of salvation I will take up” (Ps 116[115],13). I will lay it upon the empty scale of Truth’s balance. So I shall supply all that is lacking and outweigh all my sins. That cup will raise up again all my ruins; with that cup I shall worthily overbalance all my unworthiness.
O beloved Truth, I could not, dare not stand before you without my Jesus; but with him, my Jesus, I will come with joy and gladness. Then sit on your judgement seat, O Truth…: “I fear no evil” (Ps 23[22],4).
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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Stephen King of Hungary (2 September) ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
Daily Readings for September 1, 2026
St. Giles (September 1) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
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– When Jesus Speaks with Authority – Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Saint John Cassian (around 360-435) – founder of monasteries
Of Principalities, Conference 8: 25 Translated by C.S. Gibson. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 11.
May the fear and charity of God keep us from the devil
No one can be called the Father of spirits but God alone, who makes them out of nothing whenever He pleases, while men can only be termed the fathers of our flesh. So then the devil also in as much as he was created a spirit or an angel and good, had no one as his Father but God his Maker. But when he had become puffed up by pride and had said in his heart: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High, (Isaiah 14:14) he became a liar, and abode not in the truth; (John 8:44) but brought forth a lie from his own storehouse of wickedness and so became not only a liar, but also the father of the actual lie, by which when he promised Divinity to man and said You shall be as gods, (Genesis 3:5) he abode not in the truth, but from the beginning became a murderer, both by bringing Adam into a state of mortality, and by slaying Abel by the hand of his brother at his suggestion.
… Wherefore let us pray the Lord that both His fear and His love, which cannot fail, may continue steadfast in us, and make us wise in all things, and ever shield us unharmed, from the darts of the devil. For with these guards it is impossible for anyone to fall into the snares of death. But there is this difference between the perfect and imperfect, that in the case of the former love is steadfast, and so to speak riper and lasts more abidingly and so makes them persevere in holiness more steadfastly and more easily, while in the case of the latter its position is weaker and it more easily grows cold, and so quickly and more frequently allows them to be entangled in the snares of sin.
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Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,16-24.
I, Paul, say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604) – Pope, Doctor of the Church
Morals on Job, 34
“No servant can serve two masters”
To want to place one’s hope and trust in passing things is to want to set one’s foundations in running water! Everything passes, God abides. To be attached to what is transitory is to cut oneself off from what endures. For who, carried away by the angry whirling of a rapid, can stand firm in that roiling flood? So if you want to avoid being carried away by the current then flee from all that flows away. Otherwise, the object of our love will make us end up doing exactly what we wanted to avoid. Whoever attaches himself to transitory things will surely be dragged along to wherever the things he is clinging to are drifting.
So the first thing we must do is to keep ourselves from loving material goods; the second is not to put our trust in such of those goods as are entrusted for our use and not our enjoyment. The soul who is attached to goods that only pass away very soon loses its own stability. The current of this present life carries off whoever it bears, and it is a foolish delusion, for whoever this current carries, to try to stand upright in it.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-01
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 01, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Saint Giles & The Twelve Holy Brothers (1 September) | Anti-social for Christ
