The liturgy this Sunday beholds a picture both human and Divine! Je-sus, a tired Man, falling off to sleep in a humble fishing boat despite the rage of the winds! Jesus, the tireless wide-awake God, "rising up" (Gospel) shows Himself to be their absolute Master! Now this boat really represents the Church. Enemies today, as in the past, gloat over "our human frailty" (Prayer, Secret), tossed about by the winds of inhuman evil spirits and the waves of human passion. Yet, despite our indifference and others' persecution, the Church contains the Divine Presence, ever "rising up" from the tomb of its Good Friday "failures" to the triumph of a new Easter resurrection (Postcommunion).
With this picture before us of the "Divine" help when all hope of human help is lost, the Epistle counsels us to do our part to calm the storms by loving our neighbour and by not working any evil against him, either in private or in the social order.
Had the 4th November fallen on any day bar Sunday, it would have been the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo E. C., who was an important figure in the reform of the Church in the XVI Century.
Ss Vitalis and Agricola Mm., would also have been are commemorated in the Mass. They were a slave and master who were martyred under Diocletian in about 340. Their bodies were discovered in 393, and St. Ambrose was pre-sent when the bodies were translated. Neither St Charles, or Ss Vitalis and Agricola are commemorated using the 1962 rubrics of the Mass but all the same pray to the Saints to get the Church on track from all the problems at present!