Book of the Week
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Praying With St. John's Gospel, edited by Fr. Peter John Cameron OP. Magnificat, 2013.
This book contains a day by day reflection on the Gospel of St. John and is intended for the busy person who has time for only a short Gospel reading each day. It should help a busy person see Christ in daily life as it invites the reader to enter into a conversation with the Lord of Life. Readers should hereby learn how to converse easily with Christ.
John invites the reader to the wedding feast of Cana, to visit with the Samaritan woman at the well, and even be with Mary Magdalen and Martha when their brother Lazarus has died and they urgently needs Christ for comfort.
The 27 authors give a variety of perspectives since they are listed as Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, diocesan priests, laity, as well as
university professors. Each day's page consists of a short reading from John's Gospel, a reflection on the reading, and a closing prayer.
In the introduction, readers are encouraged to study the message of the fourth Gospel, namely apage, God's affection for the human race, God's forgiveness and God's care. The book includes an invitation to enter into a transforming union with Jesus, Son of
God. Although the book is intended for the year 2003, the messages are adaptable to any year. One author compares his love of this little son who cries, "Dada" to the love of God for all humanity. This is John's message!
(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review)
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Saint of the Week
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Bl. John Francis Burte' and Companions:
(d. 1792-94) September 2 These priests were victims of the French Revolution. Though their martyrdom spans a period of several years, they stand together in the Church's memory because they all gave their lives for the same principle. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1791) required all priests to take an oath which amounted to a denial of the faith. Each of these men refused and was executed.
John Francis Burté became a Franciscan at 16 and after ordination taught theology to the young friars. Later he was guardian of the large Conventual friary in Paris until he was arrested and held in the convent of the Carmelites.
Appolinaris of Posat was born in 1739 in Switzerland. He joined the Capuchins and acquired
a reputation as an excellent preacher, confessor and instructor of clerics. Sent to the East as a missionary, he was in Paris studying Oriental languages when the French Revolution began. Refusing the oath, he was swiftly arrested and detained in the Carmelite convent.
Severin Girault, a member of the Third Order Regular, was a chaplain for a group of sisters in Paris. Imprisoned with the others,
he was the first to die in the slaughter at the convent.
These three plus 182 others--including several bishops and many religious and diocesan priests--were massacred at the Carmelite house in Paris on September 2, 1792. They were beatified in 1926.
John Baptist Triquerie, born in 1737, entered the
Conventual Franciscans. He was chaplain and confessor of Poor Clare monasteries in three cities before he was arrested for refusing to take the oath. He and 13 diocesan priests were guillotined in Laval on January 21, 1794. He was beatified in 1955.
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