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"God, be merciful to me a sinner!"
This parable presents both an opportunity and a warning. Pride leads
to self-deception and spiritual blindness. True humility helps us to
see ourselves as we really are in God's eyes and it inclines us to
seek God's help and mercy. God dwells with the humble of heart who
recognize their own sinfulness and who acknowledge God's mercy and
saving grace. I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him
who is of a contrite and humble spirit (Isaiah 57:15). God cannot hear
us if we boast in ourselves and despise others. Do you humbly seek
God's mercy and do you show mercy to others, especially those you find
difficult to love and to forgive? [Luke 18:9-14]
<<>><<>><<>>
22 May – St Basiliscus of Pontus
Also known as
Basiliscus of Comana
Basilicus
Basilisco
Memorial
22 May
3 March (Byzantine synaxary; as one of the Martyrs of Pontus)
30 July (Greek calendar)
(Died c 310)
Martyr, Bishop of Comana in Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey) Died
by beheading in c 310 in Comana, Pontus (in modern Turkey).
The Roman Martyrology reads: “At Comana, in Pontus, under the Emperor
Maximian and the Governor Agrippa, the holy Martyr Basiliscus, who was
forced to wear iron shoes, pierced with heated nails and endured many
other trials. Being at last decapitated and thrown into a river, he
obtained the glory of Martyrdom.”
In our earliest sources Basiliscus is said to have announced in a
vision at Comana, to the dying St John Chrysostom, the latter’s
immediate entry into Heaven and to lead him home and to have
identified himself as a Bishop of Comana, Martyred at Nicomedia under
Maximian at about the same time as St Lucian of Antioch (who is
reported by Eusebius to have been Martyred in 312 under Maximinus
Daia).
In the seventh- or eighth-century Vitas of St John Chrysostom ascribed
to George of Alexandria Basiliscus, makes the same appearance but
identifies himself as a military Martyr. In this latter construction,
he has a legendary Greek-language Passio, making him a Martyr at
Comana under Maximian. In this version, Basiliscus was brought to a
pagan temple to perform ritual sacrifice, which resulted, both in the
temple’s being set afire by lightning and in the destruction of its
idols, after which he was executed on this day, by decapitation and
his body was thrown into the river Iris. Christians secretly retrieved
the Saint’s remains and buried them in a freshly plowed field, where
later a Martyrion or Shrine, was built in his honour. Thus far
Basiliscus’ own Passio.
A related account under today’s date in a Byzantine menologion (the
Greek version of the Martyrology) specifies, that he had been tortured
by being forced to wear iron shoes studded with red-hot nails.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/05/22/
Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth
“Mary is a supremely powerful Queen because she is the Mother of God.
She is a more merciful Queen because she is our Mother and Mother of sinners.
She is a most loving Queen because hers is a kingdom of love and of goodness.
Even as she is the most lovable of creatures, so she is the most loving...
The realisation of Mary’s regal power and of her maternal love for us,
should lead us to have complete confidence in her.
This confidence should inspire us to pray fervently to her, to love
her in return and to form a practical resolution of imitating her.”
by Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/05/22/thought-for-the-day-22-may-mary-queen-of-heaven-and-earth/
Saint Quote:
"The spirit of Christian charity lives not within you, if you lament
the body from which the soul has departed, but lament not the soul
from which God has departed."
--St. Augustine (Doctor, 354-430) - "Catechism of the Council of Trent"
Bible Quote:
When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out:
and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
[21] As coals are to burning coals,
and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife. [Proverbs 26:20-21] DRV
<><><><>
May We Confess Your Name to the End
By St Cyprian of Carthage (200-258)
Good God,
may we confess Your Name to the end.
May we emerge unmarked
and glorious from the traps
and darkness of this world.
As You have bound us together
by charity and peace and as together
we have persevered under persecution,
so may we also rejoice together
in Your heavenly kingdom.
Amen
This parable presents both an opportunity and a warning. Pride leads
to self-deception and spiritual blindness. True humility helps us to
see ourselves as we really are in God's eyes and it inclines us to
seek God's help and mercy. God dwells with the humble of heart who
recognize their own sinfulness and who acknowledge God's mercy and
saving grace. I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him
who is of a contrite and humble spirit (Isaiah 57:15). God cannot hear
us if we boast in ourselves and despise others. Do you humbly seek
God's mercy and do you show mercy to others, especially those you find
difficult to love and to forgive? [Luke 18:9-14]
<<>><<>><<>>
22 May – St Basiliscus of Pontus
Also known as
Basiliscus of Comana
Basilicus
Basilisco
Memorial
22 May
3 March (Byzantine synaxary; as one of the Martyrs of Pontus)
30 July (Greek calendar)
(Died c 310)
Martyr, Bishop of Comana in Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey) Died
by beheading in c 310 in Comana, Pontus (in modern Turkey).
The Roman Martyrology reads: “At Comana, in Pontus, under the Emperor
Maximian and the Governor Agrippa, the holy Martyr Basiliscus, who was
forced to wear iron shoes, pierced with heated nails and endured many
other trials. Being at last decapitated and thrown into a river, he
obtained the glory of Martyrdom.”
In our earliest sources Basiliscus is said to have announced in a
vision at Comana, to the dying St John Chrysostom, the latter’s
immediate entry into Heaven and to lead him home and to have
identified himself as a Bishop of Comana, Martyred at Nicomedia under
Maximian at about the same time as St Lucian of Antioch (who is
reported by Eusebius to have been Martyred in 312 under Maximinus
Daia).
In the seventh- or eighth-century Vitas of St John Chrysostom ascribed
to George of Alexandria Basiliscus, makes the same appearance but
identifies himself as a military Martyr. In this latter construction,
he has a legendary Greek-language Passio, making him a Martyr at
Comana under Maximian. In this version, Basiliscus was brought to a
pagan temple to perform ritual sacrifice, which resulted, both in the
temple’s being set afire by lightning and in the destruction of its
idols, after which he was executed on this day, by decapitation and
his body was thrown into the river Iris. Christians secretly retrieved
the Saint’s remains and buried them in a freshly plowed field, where
later a Martyrion or Shrine, was built in his honour. Thus far
Basiliscus’ own Passio.
A related account under today’s date in a Byzantine menologion (the
Greek version of the Martyrology) specifies, that he had been tortured
by being forced to wear iron shoes studded with red-hot nails.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/05/22/
Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth
“Mary is a supremely powerful Queen because she is the Mother of God.
She is a more merciful Queen because she is our Mother and Mother of sinners.
She is a most loving Queen because hers is a kingdom of love and of goodness.
Even as she is the most lovable of creatures, so she is the most loving...
The realisation of Mary’s regal power and of her maternal love for us,
should lead us to have complete confidence in her.
This confidence should inspire us to pray fervently to her, to love
her in return and to form a practical resolution of imitating her.”
by Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/05/22/thought-for-the-day-22-may-mary-queen-of-heaven-and-earth/
Saint Quote:
"The spirit of Christian charity lives not within you, if you lament
the body from which the soul has departed, but lament not the soul
from which God has departed."
--St. Augustine (Doctor, 354-430) - "Catechism of the Council of Trent"
Bible Quote:
When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out:
and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
[21] As coals are to burning coals,
and wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife. [Proverbs 26:20-21] DRV
<><><><>
May We Confess Your Name to the End
By St Cyprian of Carthage (200-258)
Good God,
may we confess Your Name to the end.
May we emerge unmarked
and glorious from the traps
and darkness of this world.
As You have bound us together
by charity and peace and as together
we have persevered under persecution,
so may we also rejoice together
in Your heavenly kingdom.
Amen
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