Wednesday, January 28th. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St Mark 4:1-20.
DAILY MASS
Fr. Michael Coutts celebrates Daily Mass from St. Basil’s Church in Toronto,
CLICK BELOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcCIvYn2TA
Produced by National Catholic Broadcasting Council.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
DAILY ROSARY
Father Robret Reed prays the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary in
St Petersburg, Russia.
CLICK BELOW
http://www.catholictv.com/shows/the-rosary/sorrowful-mysteries-russia
From CatholicTV
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Hear this! A sower went out to sow.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 4:1-20.
On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.
And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them,
Hear this! A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. And when the sun rose, it was scorched and it withered for lack of roots.
Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain.
And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. It came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” He added, “Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.”
And when he was alone, those present along with the Twelve questioned him about the parables.
He answered them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that ‘they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.'”
Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables? The sower sows the word.
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word,
but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit. But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
#########################################################################################
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Commentary of the day :
Saint Caesarius of Arles
Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543), monk and Bishop
Sermons addressed to the people, no.6; CCL 103,32 (SC 175)
Bearing fruit thirty, sixty or a hundredfold
Brethren, there are two kinds of field: the first is God’s field, the second is man’s. You have your property; God has his, too. Your own property is your land; God’s property is your soul. Is it right that you should cultivate your property and leave God’s lying fallow? If you cultivate your land but fail to cultivate your soul, is this because you want to set your own property in order but leave God’s fallow? Is that right? Does God deserve that we should neglect the soul he holds so dear? You are delighted when you see your property well cultivated; why don’t you weep when you see your soul lying fallow? We cause the fields on our property to come alive for a few days in this world; caring for our souls will enable us to live forever in heaven…
God has deigned to entrust our souls to us as his property; so let us set to work with all our might, by his help, so that when he comes to visit his property he will find it well cultivated and in perfect order. May he find a harvest and not thorns; may he find wine and not vinegar, corn rather than chaff. If he finds everything in it that can be pleasing in his eyes, he will give us an eternal reward in exchange, but thorns will be committed to the fire.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2015
#########################################################################################
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Saint of the day
St. Thomas Aquinas,
Priest & Doctor of the Church (+ 1274) – Memorial
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
Priest and Doctor of the Church
(c. 1225-1274)
St. Thomas was born of noble parents at Aquino in Italy, in 1226. At the age of nineteen he received the Dominican habit at Naples, where he was studying.
Seized by his brothers on his way to Paris, he suffered a two years’ captivity in their castle of Rocca-Secca; but neither the caresses of his mother and sisters, nor the threats and stratagems of his brothers, could shake him in his vocation. While St. Thomas was in confinement at Rocca-Secca, his brothers endeavored to entrap him into sin, but the attempt only ended in the triumph of his purity. Snatching from the hearth a burning brand, the Saint drove from his chamber the wretched creature whom they had there concealed. Then marking a cross upon the wall, he knelt down to pray, and forthwith, being rapt in ecstasy, an angel girded him with a cord, in token of the gift of perpetual chastity which God had given him. The pain caused by the girdle was so sharp that St. Thomas uttered a piercing cry, which brought his guards into the room. But he never told this grace to any one save only to Father Raynald, his confessor, a little while before his death. Hence originated the Confraternity of the “Angelic Warfare,” for the preservation of the virtue of chastity.
Having at length escaped, St. Thomas went to Cologne to study under Blessed Albert the Great, and after that to Paris, where for many years he taught philosophy and theology. The Church has ever venerated his numerous writings as a treasure-house of sacred doctrine; while in naming him the Angelic Doctor she has indicated that his science is more divine than human. The rarest gifts of intellect were combined in him with the tenderest piety. Prayer, he said, had taught him more than study.
His singular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament shines forth in the Office and hymns for Corpus Christi, which he composed. To the words miraculously uttered by a crucifix at Naples, “Well hast thou written concerning Me, Thomas. What shall I give thee as a reward?” he replied, “Naught save Thyself, O Lord.”
He died at Fossa-Nuova, 1274, on his way to the General Council of Lyons, to which Pope Gregory X. had summoned him.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2015
This entry was posted on January 20, 2015 by FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH. It was filed under 1 Corinthians 13, All Saints Day, All Souls' Day, ANNUAL PRIEST TRANSFER IN BANGKOK, ขอบคุณผู้ที่ช่วยเหลือ, ประกาศพระศาสนจักร, ประชาสัมพันธ์ ข่าวรอบวัด, มิสซาสำหรับพี่น้องคริสตชน, สวดสายประคำ, สารวัดนักบุญฟรังซีสเซเวียร์, เจ้าอาวาส เขียน, Basilicas, CHRISTMAS, COMMENTARY OF THE DAY, DAILY GOSPEL OF LORD JESUS CHRIST, DAILY MASS, DAILY ROSARY, Easter, EASTER - ALLELUIA, EASTER - EXSULTET, FEAST, FEAST OF THE CHURCH, HOLY FAMILY, HOLY WEEK, Lent, MASS OF THE DAY, Memorial, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Pentecost Sunday - Birthday of the Church, PSALMS, SAINTS OF THE DAY, SOLEMNITY, THAI CATHOLIC SONGS, The Ascension of Jesus, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, THE CANONIZATION OF TWO POPES, The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Most Holy Trinity, The Nativity of Jesus, THE NATIVITY STORY, The Passion and was tagged with A man named John, annunciation, The Holy Family of Jesus, บทอ่านพระวาจา, พระวรสาร, มิซซา, มิซซาประจำวัน, สารวัด ของ วัดนักบุญฟรังซีสเซเวียร์ สามเสน, Bangkok, Basilicas, Bible, BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, CATHOLIC, CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THAILAND, Catholic TV live, child Jesus, children of God, CHRIST THE KING, Christmas, Church, Commentary of the day, DAILY MASS, Dedication, Doctor of the Church, Easter, FEAST OF THE CHURCH, FRANCIS XAVIER, Gregory Nazianzen, Holy Family, Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, Holy Mother of God, house of David, Jesus, Jesus Christ, JESUS CURES, JESUS HEALING, JOHN, John Henry, John Henry Newman, John the Baptist, Lamb of God, LITURGICAL CALENDAR, LORD JESUS CHRIST, LUKE, Mark, Mary and Joseph, Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of Jesus, MASS AT CATHOLIC TV, Mathew, memorial, MOTHER OF JESUS, NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER IN THAI, NOVENA, Paris, POPE FRANCIS, POPE MESSAGE, ROSARY, SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER BANGKOK, Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint John, Saint Luke, Saints of the day, SAMSEN, Simon Peter, Solemnity, St. Genevieve, THAILAND, The 6th Day in the Octave of Christmas, The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER IN THAI.
FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN 
Wednesday, January 28th. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St Mark 4:1-20.
DAILY MASS
Fr. Michael Coutts celebrates Daily Mass from St. Basil’s Church in Toronto,
CLICK BELOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhcCIvYn2TA
Produced by National Catholic Broadcasting Council.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
DAILY ROSARY
Father Robret Reed prays the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary in
St Petersburg, Russia.
CLICK BELOW
http://www.catholictv.com/shows/the-rosary/sorrowful-mysteries-russia
From CatholicTV
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Hear this! A sower went out to sow.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 4:1-20.
On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.
And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them,
Hear this! A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. And when the sun rose, it was scorched and it withered for lack of roots.
Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain.
And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. It came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” He added, “Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.”
And when he was alone, those present along with the Twelve questioned him about the parables.
He answered them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that ‘they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.'”
Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables? The sower sows the word.
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word,
but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit. But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
#########################################################################################
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Commentary of the day :
Saint Caesarius of Arles
Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543), monk and Bishop
Sermons addressed to the people, no.6; CCL 103,32 (SC 175)
Bearing fruit thirty, sixty or a hundredfold
Brethren, there are two kinds of field: the first is God’s field, the second is man’s. You have your property; God has his, too. Your own property is your land; God’s property is your soul. Is it right that you should cultivate your property and leave God’s lying fallow? If you cultivate your land but fail to cultivate your soul, is this because you want to set your own property in order but leave God’s fallow? Is that right? Does God deserve that we should neglect the soul he holds so dear? You are delighted when you see your property well cultivated; why don’t you weep when you see your soul lying fallow? We cause the fields on our property to come alive for a few days in this world; caring for our souls will enable us to live forever in heaven…
God has deigned to entrust our souls to us as his property; so let us set to work with all our might, by his help, so that when he comes to visit his property he will find it well cultivated and in perfect order. May he find a harvest and not thorns; may he find wine and not vinegar, corn rather than chaff. If he finds everything in it that can be pleasing in his eyes, he will give us an eternal reward in exchange, but thorns will be committed to the fire.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2015
#########################################################################################
Wednesday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
28 January 2015
Saint of the day
St. Thomas Aquinas,
Priest & Doctor of the Church (+ 1274) – Memorial
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
Priest and Doctor of the Church
(c. 1225-1274)
St. Thomas was born of noble parents at Aquino in Italy, in 1226. At the age of nineteen he received the Dominican habit at Naples, where he was studying.
Seized by his brothers on his way to Paris, he suffered a two years’ captivity in their castle of Rocca-Secca; but neither the caresses of his mother and sisters, nor the threats and stratagems of his brothers, could shake him in his vocation. While St. Thomas was in confinement at Rocca-Secca, his brothers endeavored to entrap him into sin, but the attempt only ended in the triumph of his purity. Snatching from the hearth a burning brand, the Saint drove from his chamber the wretched creature whom they had there concealed. Then marking a cross upon the wall, he knelt down to pray, and forthwith, being rapt in ecstasy, an angel girded him with a cord, in token of the gift of perpetual chastity which God had given him. The pain caused by the girdle was so sharp that St. Thomas uttered a piercing cry, which brought his guards into the room. But he never told this grace to any one save only to Father Raynald, his confessor, a little while before his death. Hence originated the Confraternity of the “Angelic Warfare,” for the preservation of the virtue of chastity.
Having at length escaped, St. Thomas went to Cologne to study under Blessed Albert the Great, and after that to Paris, where for many years he taught philosophy and theology. The Church has ever venerated his numerous writings as a treasure-house of sacred doctrine; while in naming him the Angelic Doctor she has indicated that his science is more divine than human. The rarest gifts of intellect were combined in him with the tenderest piety. Prayer, he said, had taught him more than study.
His singular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament shines forth in the Office and hymns for Corpus Christi, which he composed. To the words miraculously uttered by a crucifix at Naples, “Well hast thou written concerning Me, Thomas. What shall I give thee as a reward?” he replied, “Naught save Thyself, O Lord.”
He died at Fossa-Nuova, 1274, on his way to the General Council of Lyons, to which Pope Gregory X. had summoned him.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2015
Related