10 St. Josaphat & Wisdom Things That Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 12, 2015)

Through the intercession of the martyr St. Josaphat may we work tirelessly for the unity of Christians. pic.twitter.com/G2qrOZ3IHZ

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) November 12, 2015

St.Josaphat was the first Saint of the Eastern Church to be canonized by Rome. #SaintoftheDay pic.twitter.com/ZZW8KzBolQ

— Detroit Archdiocese (@DetroitCatholic) November 12, 2015

3. From a homily from Fr. Steve Grunow:

As Christians we are not running about wily nily looking for the Kingdom of God, as some do in their pursuit of worldly philosophies and ideological agendas, we know that this Kingdom has arrived and it is here in this world, being brought to its fulfillment by Christ, active and working in his Church.
It is in the Christ, living and present in his Church, in his saints, that the Kingdom of God is among us.

4. Do yourself a favor and read today’s first reading on wisdom, from Wisdom.

S. Josaphat pray for us pray for the Church. He realized the truth of the Roman Catholic Church, converted and died for this truth. A grace

— Bishop David Kagan (@VescovoDDK) November 12, 2015

6. This from Pope Pius XI Ecclesiam Dei is in the Liturgy of the Hours today:

In designing his Church God worked with such skill that in the fullness of time it would resemble a single great family embracing all men. It can be identified, as we know, by certain distinctive characteristics, notably its universality and unity. Christ the Lord passed on to his apostles the task he had received from the Father: I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations. He wanted the apostles as a body to be intimately bound together, first by the inner tie of the same faith and love which flows into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, and, second, by the external tie of authority exercised by one apostle over the others. For this he assigned the primacy to Peter, the source and visible basis of their unity for all time. So that the unity and agreement among them would endure, God wisely stamped them, one might say, with the mark of holiness and martyrdom.
Both these distinctions fell to Josaphat, archbishop of Polock of the Slavonic rite of the Eastern Church. He is rightly looked upon as the great glory and strength of the Eastern Rite Slavs. Few have brought them greater honor or contributed more to their spiritual welfare than Josaphat, their pastor and apostle, especially when he gave his life as a martyr for the unity of the Church. He felt, in fact, that God had inspired him to restore world-wide unity to the Church and he realized that his greatest chance of success lay in preserving the Slavonic rite and Saint Basil’s rule of monastic life within the one universal Church.
Concerned mainly with seeing his own people reunited to the See of Peter, he sought out every available argument which would foster and maintain Church unity. His best arguments were drawn from liturgical books, sanctioned by the Fathers of the Church, which were in common use among Eastern Christians, including the dissidents. Thus thoroughly prepared, he set out to restore the unity of the Church. A forceful man of fine sensibilities, he met with such success that his opponents dubbed him “the thief of souls.”

#HomilyTweet: I'm a great wise guy. However am I a wise man? True wisdom is not from a book; it is from God. Wisdom ALWAYS leads us to Him.

— James R. Gretz (@JRGretz) November 12, 2015

#HomilyTweetPS:St. Josephat is wisdom personified. He saw the necessity for all to be united, respecting traditions. He was killed doing so.

— James R. Gretz (@JRGretz) November 12, 2015

8. Fr. Roger Landry: “The kingdom has come to a person when God is truly God of each and every act of one’s life.”

We pray for the gift of wisdom which the Word of God tells us is "the spotless mirror of the power of God and can do all things."

— Bishop Burbidge (@BishopBurbidge) November 12, 2015

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