SAINTS ISAAC JOQUES & JOHN BROBEUF & CO MARTYRS.
"The Lord said: “Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building.
"Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’ in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who died between the altar and the temple building.
"Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
"Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
"When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say." (Luke 11: 17 - 54).
Thursday 19th October 2023, 28th Week in Ordinary Time is the feast of the North American Martyrs: John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and companions.
All of them French and all of the Society of Jesus.
8 in all, 6 priests and 2 brothers. They labored day and night under harsh conditions with almost the certainty of martyrdom to bring Jesus Christ to the Native Americans.
In faith these martyrs believed Jesus that He came to found an everlasting Kingdom of peace, joy and happiness for ever and ever. It is God's will for all people to be saved. They lost their lives in bringing this message to Native Americans.
The scholars of the law were not in the least amused when they heard Jesus say of them:
"Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
In America and every nation on earth, there are millions of scholars of the law who live off the reputation of their office as men of learning and wisdom. But in reality they are empty heads. Many of them foist heresy on society through their empty speculations.
"Do not pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to useless speculation rather than advance the plan of God, which is by faith, so I urge you now." (CF 1 Timothy 1: 4).
The Church had dealt with them through Saints that are dubbed Hammer of Heretics. For example: St Augustine and St Anthony of Padua.
O Lord, make us Hammer of Heretics.
October is the Holy Rosary Month.
Let us reflect on some attributes of Mary from the Litany of Loretto:
Mother of God
Mother of Christ
Mother of the Church
MOTHER of Mercy
Mother of divine grace
MOTHER of Hope
Do you understand what they mean? Google each attribute.
Say the Holy Rosary every day in October.
For Prayers, Consecration, Litany, Testimony of Jesus about those who pray the Rosary, click the link below:
https://seekfirst.blogspot.com/2023/09/october-devotion-to-holy-rosary.html?m=1
Praying Mary’s intercession for my family and myself.
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Amen.
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