Living Spirit and Liturgical Calendar

Thou, Mary, art the Virgin of Virgins. To have a virgin soul is to love nothing on earth in comparison of God, or except for His sake. That soul is virginal which is ever looking for its Beloved who is in heaven, and which sees Him in whatever is lovely upon earth, loving earthly friends very dearly, but in their proper place, as His gifts, and His representatives, but loving Jesus alone with sovereign affection, and bearing to lose all, so that she may keep Him.

SAINT JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
FROM MEDITATIONS AND DEVOTIONS (PARACLETE PRESS, 2019)

There are many stopping places on the road, and some of them are very lovely, so lovely that there seems little sense in going further. It is at this point, when the Christian is tempted to decide that all that matters is there and now … that the sign is needed of those whose public dedication takes it clear that they are going further, because there is further to go.

ROSEMARY HAUGHTON
FROM CELIBACY AND VIRGINITY (LOGOS, 1968)

The word of God’s revelation is profoundly marked by the fundamental truth that man, created in the image of God, shares by his work in the activity of the Creator and that, within the limits of his own human capabilities, man in a sense continues to develop that activity, and perfects it as he advances further and further in the discovery of the resources and values contained in the whole of creation … Awareness that man’s work is a participation in God’s activity ought to permeate, as the Vatican Council teaches, even “the most ordinary everyday activities. For, while providing the substance of life for themselves and their families, men and women are performing their activities in a way which appropriately benefits society. They can justly consider that by their labour they are unfolding the Creator’s work, consulting the advantages of their brothers and sisters, and contributing by their personal industry to the realisation in history of the divine plan.”

POPE JOHN PAUL II
FROM LABOREM EXERCENS (CTS, 1981)

CALENDAR

Sunday 20 October:
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (Year B)
Monday 21 October:
Feria
Tuesday 22 October:
Feria or Saint John Paul II, Pope
Wednesday 23 October:
Feria or St John of Capistrano, Priest
Thursday 24 October:
Feria or St Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop
Friday 25 October:
Feria
Saturday 26 October:
Feria or Ss Chad and Cedd, Bishops
Sunday 27 October:
Thirtieth Sunday of the Year

For the calendar for the Missal of 1962 go to lms.org.uk