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August 2: Feast of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels
"The angels� acknowledgment of the humble maid of Nazareth as their Queen manifests both the great holiness of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the humility of the good angels. Our Lady�s human nature is inferior to the angelic nature, but in the order of grace, Mary far surpasses the angels. Indeed, her sanctity is greater than all the angels and saints in heaven. And the angels humbly and lovingly accept that a woman is their glorious Queen because she is the Mother of God." [Catholic.net]

August 4: Feart of John Mary Vianney, The Cur� of Ars
Pope John Paul: "More than ever we need his witness, his intercession, in order to face the situations of our times when, in spite of a certain number of hopeful signs, evangelization is being contradicted by a growing secularization, when spiritual discipline is being neglected, when many are losing sight of the Kingdom of God, when often, even in the pastoral ministry, there is a too exclusive concern for the social aspect, for temporal aims. In the last century the Cur� of Ars had to face difficulties which were perhaps of a different kind but which were no less serious." [Catholic-Forum]

August 5: Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome
"[T]he Roman basilica of St. Mary Major will mark the feast of Our Lady of the Snows as well as the anniversary of the dedication of the basilica which was founded on that date in 358 by Pope Liberius." [EWTN]

August 6: Feast of  the Transfiguration of the Lord
"This feast is a source for endless writing and meditation, and is best approached in a spirit of prayer, and profound awe.  Among many topics we might consider, may we reflect on this as a feast incarnation; the wonder of Jesus, true God, and true man."  [Byzantine Catholic Church]

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FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE ALSO WILL YOUR HEART BE.

It is true that the Word was made flesh in "the fullness of time" (Gal 4:4); but it is also true that, in virtue of the mystery of his identity as the eternal Son of the Father, he is the origin and end of the universe.

The Gospel of Sunday, August 8, 2004
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke: 12:32-48

For the Christian, Sunday is above all an Easter celebration, wholly illumined by the glory of the Risen Christ. It is the festival of the "new creation". Yet, when understood in depth, this aspect is inseparable from what the first pages of Scripture tell us of the plan of God in the creation of the world. It is true that the Word was made flesh in "the fullness of time" (Gal 4:4); but it is also true that, in virtue of the mystery of his identity as the eternal Son of the Father, he is the origin and end of the universe. As John writes in the Prologue of his Gospel: "Through him all things were made, and without him was made nothing that was made" (1:3). Paul too stresses this in writing to the Colossians: "In him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible .... All things were created through him and for him" (1:16). This active presence of the Son in the creative work of God is revealed fully in the Paschal Mystery, in which Christ, rising as "the first fruits of those who had fallen asleep" (1 Cor 15:20), established the new creation and began the process which he himself will bring to completion when he returns in glory to "deliver the kingdom to God the Father ..., so that God may be everything to everyone" (1 Cor 15:24,28).

Already at the dawn of creation, therefore, the plan of God implied Christ's "cosmic mission". This Christocentric perspective, embracing the whole arc of time, filled God's well-pleased gaze when, ceasing from all his work, he "blessed the seventh day and made it holy" (Gn 2:3). According to the Priestly writer of the first biblical creation story, then was born the "Sabbath", so characteristic of the first Covenant, and which in some ways foretells the sacred day of the new and final Covenant. The theme of "God's rest" (cf. Gn 2:2) and the rest which he offered to the people of the Exodus when they entered the Promised Land (cf. Ex 33:14; Dt 3:20; 12:9; Jos 21:44; Ps 95:11) is re-read in the New Testament in the light of the definitive "Sabbath rest" (Heb 4:9) into which Christ himself has entered by his Resurrection. The People of God are called to enter into this same rest by persevering in Christ's example of filial obedience (cf. Heb 4:3-16).  

August 2, 2004

Excerpted from Pope John Paul II�s Apostolic Letter, �Dies Domini.�

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