- 7.30am - St David's Church, Monastery Road, PANTASAPH, CH8 8PE
- 12.30pm - St Francis of Assisi, Llay Chain, LLAY, LL12 0NT
It publishes His coming “to save the nations.” After calling upon God to “stir up our (interior) hearts” in the Prayer, so as to “prepare,” notice how the Epistle stresses social charity, “to receive one another as Christ also hath received you.”
Again, the Gospel enumerates some of the interior and social “works of Christ,” which together with His miracles, testify that He is the long-expected Divine Saviour of the world. The blind of soul now see; the lame of will now walk; the lepers of sin are absolved; the poor become rich with a new Gospel.
Today, is Feast of St. Melchiades Pp. M., who suffered persecution during its last days but who lived to see peace given to the Church through the Edict of Milan in 313 which legalized the Church. The Saint passed away in 314 and was buried in the Catacomb of St. Callixtus outside Rome. Although not commemorated in Masses using the 1962 missal, we might pray to the Saint for protection and guidance in these times of gathering persecution of Christians.