Tuesday, October 11, 2016

October 11 - St. John XXIII

+ Our first reading today states that “for freedom Christ set us free.”

+ John XXIII was born Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli, the third of thirteen children, to poor Italian sharecroppers.

After the seminary he studied in Rome on scholarship.

He served as a secretary to the bishop in Bergamo, and as a diplomat for the Holy See.

At the age of seventy-six, he was elected in 1958 as a supposed “interim pope.”

Three years later he called the bishop together in ecumenical council to address the Church’s mission to the modern world. The Second Vatican Council convened on October 11, 1962.

John died the next year. “I live by the mercy of Jesus,” he had said, “to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.”

And everything is what St. John XXIII got: he obtained as a free gift the “freedom Christ set uss free for” so that we never again need submit to the yoke of slavery to sin.

St. John thought of himself primarily as a sinner in whose mercy and love he rested and found his comfort daily – and this moved him to give himself entirely to God and the Mystical Body of his Son Jesus – he gave the alms of his life to all in need – and the ramifications of the Second Vatican Council that he called are still being unfolded and unfurled.

Those abiding by its spirit will be made clean – those who don’t won’t be.

The choice is always our, but St. John and all the angels and saints are rooting for us to make a right, good and salvific decision!

Thanks be to God – the word of God is living a effective able to discern reflection and thought of the heart!

Amen.


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