Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed

Published: Fri, 08/05/16

Book of the Week

Stories for a Faithful Heart, compiled by Alice Gray. Multinoma Publ., 2000.

This book contains powerful stories that stand like lighted candles on a dark night. The chapter headings give a glimpse of the treasures contained in each section: Compassion, Love, Making a Difference, Changed Lives, Forgiveness, Trust and Contentment, Prayer, and Faith. This book lends itself to preaching and presenting lectures on spiritual topics.

Each chapter begins with an inspirational quote. For example, in the section on Compassion, Grey wrote:

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight

That to somebody’s need made me blind;

But I never have felt a tinge of regret

For being a little too kind.

Many of the stories end with a Scripture quote. For example, at the end of a story called “Lavender Memories,” Grey wrote: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.” (Mt. 5: 7).

(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review.)

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Saint of the Week

St. Cajetan: (1480-1557): August 7.

Like most of us, Cajetan seemed headed for an “ordinary” life—first as a lawyer, then as a priest engaged in the work of the Roman Curia.

His life took a characteristic turn when he joined the Oratory of Divine Love in Rome, a group devoted to piety and charity, shortly after his ordination at 36. When he was 42 he founded a hospital for incurables at Venice. At Vicenza, he joined a “disreputable” religious community that consisted only of men of the lowest stations of life—and was roundly censured by his friends, who thought his action was a reflection on his family. He sought out the sick and poor of the town and served them.

The greatest need of the time was the reformation of a Church that was “sick in head and members.” Cajetan and three friends decided that the best road to reformation lay in reviving the spirit and zeal of the clergy. (One of them later became Paul IV.) Together they founded a congregation known as the Theatines (from Teate [Chieti] where their first superior-bishop had his see). They managed to escape to Venice after their house in Rome was wrecked when Emperor Charles V’s troops sacked Rome in 1527. The Theatines were outstanding among the Catholic reform movements that took shape before the Protestant Reformation. He founded a monte de pieta (“mountain [or fund] of piety”) in Naples—one of many charitable, nonprofit credit organizations that lent money on the security of pawned objects. The purpose was to help the poor and protect them against usurers. Cajetan’s little organization ultimately became the Bank of Naples, with great changes in policy.

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Weekend Readings

Saturday
Hab 1:12--2:4

Ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13

Mt 17:14-20

Sunday

WIS 18:6-9

PS 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22

HEB 11:1-2, 8-12

LK 12:32-48

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Theology Note

Baptism

An immersion or sprinkling of water that signifies one's identification with a belief or cause. In Christianity it is the believer's identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. 6:4-54). It is done in the name and authority (Acts 4:7) of Christ with the baptismal formula of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19). Most Christians believe that Baptism is a sacrament.

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