Ordinary Time: June 12th
Tuesday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
Other Commemorations: St. Basilides, Martyr (RM); St. Gaspar Bertoni, Priest (RM)
MASS READINGS
June 12, 2007 (Readings on USCCB website)
COLLECT PRAYER
God of wisdom and love, source of all good, send your Spirit to teach us your truth and guide our actions in your way of peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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St. John of San Facundo derives his surname from the Benedictine abbey of San Facundo, in the kingdom of Leon, where he received his early education. Ordained to the priesthood in 1445 and having earned a great reputation in Salamanca as a preacher and director of souls, John entered the community of Augustinian Canons. As a monk he succeeded in ending many of the baneful feuds that divided the young noblemen of Salamanca. Before the reform of the General Roman Calendar today was his feast.
Today was also the commemoration of Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius. These four martyrs have been venerated together at Rome from very early times.
St. Basilides
In the former liturgical calendar, there were four martyrs with a joint commemoration, Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius. Because of historical difficulties, only Basilides is mentioned in the current Roman Martyrology.
Basilides was a Christian soldier in Rome, in the army of Maxentius. He was beheaded by order of Aurelius, prefect of Rome in the persecution of Diocletian in 305.
Highlights and Things to Do:
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St. Gaspar Bertoni
St. Gaspar Bertoni was born in Verona, Italy, on October 9, 1777. He lived during one of the most challenging periods of history and sought to meet the terrible problems of his time with a response suggested to him from his vivid faith and ardent charity and concern for others.
In his spirit of abandonment to God, and service to the Church, he was guided by the Holy Spirit to found a Congregation called “Stigmatines”, whom he wanted to be “Apostolic Missionaries for the Assistance of Bishops.”
He was a man of deep prayer, much devoted to the Five Wounds of Christ (the Sacred Stigmata) and the Holy Spouses, Mary and Joseph, Patrons of the Stigmatine Congregation. In the course of his lifetime, he was blessed by God with true mystical gifts, which led him to a very sublime level of union with God and service to others.
From the age of about 35, until his death at the age of 76, his life was a long succession of great physical suffering. Many times during this long period he was at the very threshold of death.
Even from his bed, and the long years that he was confined to his room, Fr. Bertoni continued his ministry, as a teacher, even as a preacher of what we might call “Directed Retreats,” and especially as minister of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and spiritual guide for the many who sought him out.
The synthesis of his response to God might be summed up in these words: a filial and confident abandonment into the hands of God, even in the most difficult circumstances of his life.
Pope John Paul II canonized Fr. Bertoni on November 1, 1989.
—Excerpted from St-Bertoni.com
Highlights and Things to Do:
- Read more about St. Gaspar:
- Read more about the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata or the Stigmatines Order.
