Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Store up in your minds the Lord's words which you receive through your ears, for the Word of the Lord is the nourishment of the mind. . . . Be careful, then, that the word you have received through your ears remains in your heart.
-Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Among all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful, and more full of joy.
-Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
PREACHING THE NEWS quote of the week
“The accounts we have heard . . . paint a deeply disturbing picture of systematic, targeted abuses to crush dissent.”Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, talking about the ongoing violence in Syria