NOTES AND QUOTES
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
(James M Barrie)
Eucharist is a two-way street: we receive in order to give. In this way it reflects our everyday existence whereby we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
(Nicola Baty)
We are not cisterns made for hoarding. We are channels made for sharing.
(Billy Graham)
OLYMPICS
No doubt by now you will have seen the Olympic motto on your TV screens: “CITIUS-ALTIUS-FORTIUS” which means “FASTER-HIGHER-STRONGER”. If there were Christian Olympics maybe we could compete to improve our speed at being receptive to the call of God, the heights we could scale in our charity to our brothers and sisters, and the strength of our response in faith. St Paul used a similar sporting image to describe his own marathon of faith and the prize that awaited him on the finishing line. He was writing to his young friend Timothy:
“As for me, the time of sacrifice has arrived, and the moment of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race and I have kept the faith. Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness with which the Lord, the just judge, will reward me on that day; and not only me, but all those who have longed for his glorious coming.”
THIS WEEKS SAINTS
August 4th St. John Vianney
August 5th Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major
August 6th TRANSFIGURATION
Holy God, upon the mountain you revealed our Messiah, who by his death and
resurrection would fulfill both the law and the prophets. By his Transfiguration enlighten our
path that we may dare to suffer with him in the service of humanity and so share in the everlasting
glory of him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, forever.
Amen.
August 7th Sixtus 11 and Companions, St. Cajetan
August 8th St, Dominic, Blessed Mary Killop
August 9th St. Teresa Benedicta of Cross (Edith Stein) Patron Saint of Europe, St. Domitian