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"Daily Spiritual Journey "

"The highest and most perfect prayer is contemplation. But this is entirely the work of God, since contemplation is supernatural and superior to our nature. Hence in this type of prayer the soul can do nothing. It can only prepare itself for it. Now, the best preparation is to be humble, to try sincerely to acquire virtue, especially fraternal charity and love of God, have a firm resolve to do God’s will in all things, walk along the way of the cross and extinguish self-love."
- St. Teresa of Avila

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Ordinary Time - ST. Jerome

Readings (no. 459, p. 1236)
1st reading: Baruch 1.15-22
Gospel: Luke 10.13-16
(or no. 648, p. 1848)

"This Day In History"

430 - Death of Latin Father St. Jerome. Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary Latin of his day "Latin Vulgate". Jerome also prepared commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.

653 - Death of St. Honorius of Canterbury, Archbishop who helped convert the people of Kent, England to Christianity

1897 - Death of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus, at Lisieux

1952 - The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons.

Memorial of St. Amatus

Today's Schedule - Friday, September 30, 2011

St. Jerome (345-420)

One of the greatest Biblical scholars of Christendom, Saint Jerome was born of Christian parents at Stridon in Dalmatia around the year 345. Educated at the local school, he then studied rhetoric in Rome for eight years, before returning to Aquilea to set up a community of ascetics. When that community broke up after three years Jerome went to the east. He met an old hermit named Malchus, who inspired the saint to live in a bare cell, dressed in sackcloth, studying the Scriptures. He learned Hebrew from a rabbi when he returned to Antioch. And then in 382 he went again to Rome, to become the personal secretary of Pope Damasus.

Here too he began his finest work. Commissioned by the pope, he began to revise the Latin version of the psalms and the New Testament, with immense care and scholarship. Jerome eventually translated the whole of the Bible into the Latin version which is known as the Vulgate. . .

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