SUNDAY OF THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR C)
SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: AUGUST 17, 2025

MEMORIAL OF SAINT HYACINTH, CONFESSOR; SAINT JOAN OF THE CROSS (JEANNE DELANOUE), RELIGIOUS; SAINT LIBERATUS AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS; SAINT NICHOLAS POLITI, RELIGIOUS; SAINT BEATRICE OF SILVA, RELIGIOUS AND BLESSED MARIE ELIZABETH TURGEON, RELIGIOUS | https://dailyreflectionswithphilomena.com/category/saints-of-the-day
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Greetings and blessings, beloved family!
Today, Sunday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, we thank the good Lord for the gift of this day! During this month of August, we entrust our lives, our plans, our fears, and our dreams into God’s loving hands. We pray that this month will be filled with divine blessings, new opportunities, and the strength to overcome every challenge that may come our way.
We pray and celebrate with those marking birthdays, anniversaries, new jobs, weddings, and other joyful milestones this August. With special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, we pray for all those experiencing challenges in their marriages, may God grant them healing, strength, peace and love. May this be a month of peace for the anxious, healing for the sick, comfort for the brokenhearted, and provision for the needy. As we walk through the days ahead, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ go before us, the love of God surround us, and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit guide every decision we make. May this month bring us closer to holiness, deeper in faith, and stronger in hope. In all things, may God’s name be paised. Amen🙏🏽
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” ~ Proverbs 3:5-6
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” ~ James 1:5
On this feast day, as our children and children all over the world begin the new school year, with special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, and the Saints, we pray for their safety and well-being, especially those beginning the new school year. May God grant them the ability to accept one another and courage to stand against any form of violence in treating others and courage to face new challenges and wisdom to make good choices. We pray for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding and for God’s guidance and protection upon them during this school year and always. We pray for safe travels, to and from school. We also pray for all teachers, staff and parents, and guardians. May the good Lord provide for those in need. And we continue to pray for peace, love, and unity in our families and our world. May God keep us all safe and well. Amen 🙏🏽
May Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Patron Saint of Students intercede for all students. Amen 🙏🏽
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” ~ Matthew 5:4
We remember in prayer all who began this journey of life with us but are no longer here. We especially pray for our loved ones who have recently died, that the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom.
PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters. In this life, you embraced them with your tender love; deliver them now from every evil, and bid them eternal rest. The old order has passed away: welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain, but fullness of peace and joy with your Son & the Holy Spirit forever & ever. Amen🙏🏽
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May their gentle souls through the mercy of God rest in perfect peace with our Lord Jesus Christ… Amen 🙏🏽 ✝️🕯✝️🕯✝️🕯
With special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, and the Saints, we continue to humbly pray for the well-being and safety of all parents, grandparents and the elderly. We pray for justice, peace, love and unity in our families and our divided and conflicted world today. We continue to pray for all families and for the safety and well-being of our children and children all over the world. We pray for all those who are marginalized in our society, the poor and the needy. We pray for the Church, the Clergy, our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, the Cardinals, Bishops, all Priests, that they be sanctified in their ministry to God’s people. We pray for persecuted Christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world suffering from political and religious unrest. May God protect us all and keep united in peace, love and faith. Amen 🙏🏽
Through the intercession of St. Joseph, we pray for all fathers, workers and all those who labour in this world. May the Lord bless the work of their hands and may God’s grace and mercy be with us all during this season of the Ordinary Time. Wishing us all and our loved ones a joyful, peaceful, and grace-filled month of August.🙏🏽
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SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS:
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Today’s Bible Readings: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time | August 17, 2025
Reading 1: Jeremiah 38:4–6, 8–10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18
Reading 2: Hebrews 12:1–4
Gospel: Luke 12:49–53
Gospel Reading: Luke 12:49–53
“I have come not to establish peace, but rather division”
“Jesus said to His disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
In today’s Gospel, Jesus speaks of fire and of baptism. He looks ahead to a baptism He must still receive and He says that He is distressed until it is over. Jesus is referring to His passion and death, which will be a baptism of a sort. Instead of being plunged into water, He will be plunged into suffering, into a kind of fire.
Jesus also says at the beginning of our Gospel reading that He has come to bring fire down to the earth and He wishes that it were blazing already. Just before John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the river Jordan, he said to the crowds, ‘I baptize you with water… He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire’. When Jesus says He has come to bring fire down on the earth, He is talking about the fire of the Holy Spirit. At the first Pentecost the Holy Spirit came down upon the disciples in the form of tongues of fire. However, before Jesus can bring the fire of the Holy Spirit to this earth, He must first undergo His own baptism of fire, His passion and death. Through His passion and death Jesus will show His love for the world to the full. As He says elsewhere in the Gospels, no one has greater love than to lay down His life for His friends. Jesus’ death on the cross was a kind of explosion of love. It was a demonstration of God’s love for the world. After His death and resurrection, the Lord poured out this love upon the world through the Holy Spirit. This is the fire He came to bring to the earth. That same Holy Spirit has been poured into all our lives, beginning with our baptism, but throughout our lives, whenever we ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit. We can ask the Lord to give us the Holy Spirit or we can pray directly to the Holy Spirit, asking Him to come afresh into our lives, as in that lovely prayer to the Holy Spirit, ‘Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of your love’. There is that word ‘fire’ again, the Holy Spirit as the fire of God’s love.
The Lord wants our lives to be on fire with the Holy Spirit. He wants us to be aflame with the love of the Holy Spirit, so that others can come to experience the Lord’s love through us. Sometimes that fire of the Holy Spirit can die back within us. It needs to be fanned into a living flame again. Saint Paul once wrote to Timothy his co-worker, ‘fan into a living flame the gift of God that is within you’. The fire of the Holy Spirit will often need rekindling in us. How can we allow the fire of the Holy Spirit to be rekindled, fanned into a living flame, within us? One of the ways this happens is through prayer. In prayer we focus ourselves on the Lord and He alone can fan the fire of the Holy Spirit within us into a living flame. The second reading today says, ‘Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection’. To pray is to keep Jesus in our sight. When we pray, we focus ourselves on the Lord, and, in doing so, we allow the Lord to rekindle the fire of the Holy Spirit within us and we become empowered to bring His love to others. For us Catholics, the Mass is a time when we keep Jesus in our sight in a special way. We give Him our time and our attention. At Mass the Lord comes to us and we come to Him. He looks out upon us in His love and we look upon Hom in love. As we do so, the fire of the Spirit is rekindled within us and, in the words of our second reading, we are helped ‘to keep running steadily in the race we have started’. Another way that the fire of the Holy Spirit is rekindled within us is through the faithful witness of others. The Holy Spirit alive in others helps the Holy Spirit to become more alive in me. The beginning of that second reading refers to a ‘so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us’. The author seems to be referring to the community of faith. If we have people of strong faith, people of the Spirit, on every side of us, that helps each of us to be people of the Spirit, people in whom the Spirit is alive. We need each other’s faith on this race we have started; we need the presence of the Spirit in others if we are to become people in whom the Spirit is burning brightly. That is why it is so important to gather every so often with people of faith, as we do on Sundays.
In our Gospel today, Jesus speaks words that may seem unsettling: He has come not to bring peace, but division. The peace of Christ is not a passive or superficial calm; it is the burning fire of God’s love that purifies, transforms, and demands a response. To accept the Gospel is to make a choice that can cause division even within families and communities. Following Christ means taking up the cross of fidelity, even when it brings opposition or misunderstanding. Jesus’ baptism refers to His Passion, where He would endure suffering to accomplish salvation. His anguish reveals His deep longing for the Father’s plan to be fulfilled, even though it would come through the fire of the Cross. Our calling as followers of the risen Lord is keep opening our hearts to this fire of God’s love. In the course of our lives that fire can die back for various reasons, such as the pressure from the culture or the struggles and disappointments of life. It will often need to be fanned into a more living flame. How do we keep that flame burning within us? The second reading from the letter to the Hebrews calls on us to ‘not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection’. If we keep the Lord in view, His Spirit within us will burn brightly. Prayer is a time when we keep the Lord in view in a more focused way. According to the Acts of the Apostles, it was often while the members of the church were at prayer that the Holy Spirit came upon them in a new way. As well as keeping the Lord in view in prayer, we can also keep Him in view as He comes to us through all those who witness to Him, those in whom He is alive. The second reading refers to ‘so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us’. They include the Saints in heaven but also those who live saintly lives in our own place and time. We need the witness of others to keep the fire of the Lord’s love burning within us, just as others need our witness too.
Like Jeremiah in the first reading, who was thrown into the cistern for speaking God’s word, disciples of Jesus may face rejection or persecution when they remain faithful to truth. Yet just as God raised Jeremiah out of the pit, He strengthens His faithful ones in their trials.
The Responsorial Psalm beautifully echoes this: “He drew me out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud of the swamp; he set my feet upon a crag.” Our God rescues, sustains, and puts a new song in our mouths even when the world opposes us.
In the second reading, the author of Hebrews urges us to persevere: we are surrounded by a “cloud of witnesses” saints and martyrs who endured hardship for the sake of Christ. Our eyes must stay fixed on Jesus, who endured the cross for the joy set before Him. Their witness encourages us not to lose heart but to continue the race of faith with courage and endurance.
As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures today, we might ask ourselves: Do I allow the fire of Christ’s love to purify and reshape my life, even when it is uncomfortable? Am I willing to face misunderstanding or opposition for the sake of the Gospel, like Jeremiah and the early disciples? Do I draw strength from the “cloud of witnesses” and fix my eyes firmly on Jesus, especially in times of trial? When confronted with division for the sake of truth, do I choose fidelity to Christ above all else? Today’s readings remind us that discipleship is not lukewarm it is fiery, demanding, and transformative. To follow Christ is to let His fire burn away what is false and ignite our hearts with zeal for God’s Kingdom. May we never grow weary but, with trust in God’s deliverance, run the race with perseverance until we share in Christ’s victory. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us His grace as we remain faithful and continue to serve Him in spirit and in truth. 🙏🏽
Lord Jesus, You came to set the world ablaze with the fire of Your love. Kindle that fire in our hearts, that we may live with courage, passion, and fidelity to Your Gospel. Strengthen us in moments of division and trial, and give us perseverance to run the race with our eyes fixed on You. Draw us out of the pits of fear and sin, set our feet on firm ground, and make our lives a living witness to Your saving power. Amen. 🙏🏾
MEMORIAL OF SAINT HYACINTH, CONFESSOR; SAINT JOAN OF THE CROSS (JEANNE DELANOUE), RELIGIOUS; SAINT LIBERATUS AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS; SAINT NICHOLAS POLITI, RELIGIOUS; SAINT BEATRICE OF SILVA, RELIGIOUS AND BLESSED MARIE ELIZABETH TURGEON, RELIGIOUS ~ FEAST DAY – AUGUST 17TH: Today, the Church honors a beautiful gathering of saints and blesseds—Saint Hyacinth (Patron of Poland, Lithuania, and those in danger of drowning), Saint Joan of the Cross (patroness of the poor and abandoned), Saint Liberatus and his Companions (martyrs for the faith in Africa), Saint Nicholas Politi (patron of Alcara li Fusi, Sicily), Saint Beatrice of Silva (foundress of the Conceptionist Sisters and patroness of Portugal), and Blessed Marie Elizabeth Turgeon (foundress of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary of Rimouski). These holy men and women, in their diverse vocations, witnessed to God’s mercy through preaching, service, martyrdom, and fidelity to Christ.
Through their intercession and that of Our Blessed Mother Mary, we lift our prayers for marriages and families that peace, love, and unity may reign within them. We pray for the safety and well-being of all children, youth, and students across the world. We remember the sick and the dying, especially those suffering from cancer and terminal illnesses. We pray for the poor, the abandoned, and the needy. Finally, we pray for our Holy Father, bishops, priests, and religious, for new vocations, for persecuted Christians, and for the conversion of sinners. 🙏🏾
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SAINT HYACINTH, CONFESSOR: St. Hyacinth (1185–1257), known as the “Apostle of Poland,” was a Dominican friar whose preaching and miracles spread the faith across Poland, Lithuania, and beyond. A nobleman by birth, he studied law and theology, receiving doctorates before meeting St. Dominic in Rome in 1220. Clothed in the Dominican habit by Dominic himself, Hyacinth returned to Poland and established the Order of Preachers there. He was a tireless missionary, founding monasteries and converting multitudes through preaching and extraordinary miracles, including raising the dead. During a Tartar invasion of Kiev, he miraculously carried both the Blessed Sacrament and a heavy statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary across the Dnieper River, walking dry-shod with his companions. He died in Krakow on the Feast of the Assumption in 1257 and was canonized in 1594.
PRAYER: Saint Hyacinth, tireless missionary and defender of the Eucharist, pray for us that we may carry Christ and His Mother in our lives with courage and fidelity. 🙏🏾
SAINT JOAN OF THE CROSS (JEANNE DELANOUE), RELIGIOUS: Born in France in 1666, Joan Delanoue began life as a shopkeeper, ambitious for profit. Yet, an encounter with a poor widow changed her heart, and she dedicated herself entirely to serving the needy. She founded the Congregation of Saint Anne of Providence, which grew to twelve communities in France during her lifetime, caring for orphans, widows, and the destitute. St. Joan lived a life of austerity and service, often suffering illness, but remained steadfast in her love for Christ in the poor. She died in 1736, was beatified in 1947, and canonized in 1982 by St. John Paul II. Her sisters continue her mission of charity today in France, Madagascar, and Sumatra.
PRAYER: God of Mercy, through the example of St. Joan of the Cross, grant us hearts open to the poor, that in serving them we may serve You. Amen. 🙏🏾
SAINT LIBERATUS AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS: St. Liberatus, an abbot, and six fellow monks (Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus, and Maximus) suffered martyrdom under the Arian King Huneric of the Vandals in 484. Refusing to renounce the Catholic faith, they were imprisoned, tortured, and eventually condemned to death. Bound to a ship filled with wood, they miraculously survived repeated attempts to burn them alive. Finally, they were beaten to death with oars and their bodies cast into the sea, later carried ashore and buried by Christians. Their courage in the face of persecution strengthened the Church in North Africa and gave witness to the unity of faith. Their cult was confirmed by the Church in 1671.
PRAYER: Lord, through the steadfast witness of St. Liberatus and his companions, grant us courage to remain faithful to You in every trial. Amen. 🙏🏾
SAINT NICHOLAS POLITI, RELIGIOUS: St. Nicholas Politi (1117–1167) of Sicily was born to noble parents but left worldly comforts to live as a hermit on Mount Calanna. Living in solitude, prayer, and penance, he returned each week to the monastery of Santa Maria del Rogato to receive the sacraments. At his death, miraculous signs accompanied the discovery of his body in his cave, and his sanctity spread quickly throughout Sicily. He became renowned for miracles, healings, and intercession for his people.
PRAYER: Lord, You drew St. Nicholas Politi to a life of prayer and solitude. Through his intercession, help us to seek You above all things and to live faithfully in Your presence. Amen. 🙏🏾
SAINT BEATRICE OF SILVA, RELIGIOUS: St. Beatrice of Silva (1424–1492), a Portuguese noblewoman, dedicated her life to the Virgin Mary. After time in a Cistercian convent, she founded the Order of the Immaculate Conception in Toledo, Spain, devoted to Marian devotion and contemplation. Her religious family, known as the Conceptionist Sisters, continues today, living a life of prayer and service to Christ through Mary. She was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1976.
PRAYER: O God, who inspired St. Beatrice of Silva with deep love for the Immaculate Conception of Mary, grant that we too may honor Mary with our lives and be led to Christ through her. Amen. 🙏🏾
BLESSED MARIE ELIZABETH TURGEON, RELIGIOUS: Blessed Marie Elizabeth Turgeon (1840–1881) of Quebec, Canada, founded the Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary of Rimouski to educate poor children. Despite fragile health, she worked tirelessly in charity, humility, and service, founding schools and forming young women in religious life. She died at only 41 years old and was beatified in 2015.
Her legacy endures in her community’s work in education and service to the poor.
PRAYER: Lord, You filled Blessed Marie Elizabeth with zeal for the education of the poor. Grant that, through her intercession, we may place charity at the center of our lives. Amen. 🙏🏾
Our Blessed Mother Mary, Saint Hyacinth, Saint Joan of the Cross, Saint Liberatus and Companions, Saint Nicholas Politi, Saint Beatrice of Silva, and Blessed Marie Elizabeth Turgeon ~ Pray for us. 🙏🏾
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THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2025: FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST: For mutual coexistence. Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons.
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DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST | MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: August is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, inviting us to reflect on her pure love, deep sorrow, and unwavering obedience to God. Her heart, aflame with charity and pierced by suffering, mirrors the life of Christ and calls us to follow Him more closely through her example. This month, the Church encourages us to console her sorrowful heart and grow in holiness through prayers like the Rosary, the Litany of the Immaculate Heart, and the First Saturday Devotion. Through Mary’s heart, we are led ever closer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
“O Immaculate Heart of Mary, be our refuge and the way that leads us to God.”
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us and draw us into deeper love and trust in your Son. Amen🙏🏽
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PRAYER INTENTIONS: Today, as we reflect on the fiery words of our Lord in the Gospel His call to fidelity even amidst division and the witness of Jeremiah, the “cloud of witnesses” in Hebrews, and the saints we celebrate, we lift up our hearts in prayer. We pray that the fire of Christ’s love may purify our hearts and strengthen us to remain steadfast in truth, even when misunderstood or opposed. Through the intercession of Saint Hyacinth, Saint Joan of the Cross, Saint Liberatus and Companions, Saint Nicholas Politi, Saint Beatrice of Silva, and Blessed Marie Elizabeth Turgeon, we ask God’s blessings upon marriages and families, that love and unity may prevail in the home despite trials. We remember all children, youth, and students, that they may grow in wisdom and faith. We entrust the sick, especially those burdened by cancer and terminal illnesses, and the poor and abandoned to the merciful care of God. We pray for our Holy Father, bishops, priests, and religious, that they may courageously proclaim the Gospel. We pray for vocations, for persecuted Christians, and for the conversion of sinners. May the witness of today’s saints inspire us to run the race of faith with endurance, fixing our eyes firmly on Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.
LET US PRAY:
Most merciful Lord, You came to unite all people in Your love, but when Your love is rejected we live in disunity. Please come to me and dwell more fully within me so that Your presence in my life will not only bring about a spiritual communion with You, but also with those who share this same love. Jesus, I trust in You. Amen 🙏🏽
Lord Jesus, You came to set the earth on fire with the love of God. Enkindle that fire in our hearts, that we may live as faithful disciples, courageous in trial and joyful in witness. Through the prayers of the saints we honor today, grant strength to families, healing to the sick, comfort to the poor, and perseverance to all who suffer for Your name. Draw us out of every pit of fear and sin, set our feet on the firm rock of Your Word, and guide us to run the race with endurance until we share in the victory of Your Cross and Resurrection. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. 🙏🏾
Save Us, Savior of the World. Our Blessed Mother Mary, Saint Hyacinth, Saint Joan of the Cross, Saint Liberatus and Companions, Saint Nicholas Politi, Saint Beatrice of Silva, and Blessed Marie Elizabeth Turgeon ~ Pray for us 🙏🏽
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us. Amen 🙏🏽
Thanking God for the precious gift of this new day, and as we now enter the gentle rhythm of Ordinary Time, may our hearts remain open to the quiet working of the Holy Spirit who continues to guide, renew, and strengthen us each day. May this new month be filled with blessings, safety, and the quiet joy that comes from knowing that Christ walks with us always. Alleluia! Have a blessed, safe, grace-filled Sunday and a fulfilling week 🙏🏽
Blessings and Love always, Philomena 💖
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