Hello everyone! Heyo! Welcome back to Scattering Flowers with Elise and Miles, a podcast where you read the daily gospels and the saint of the day.
Let’s get started! Today is Monday, April 21st, and we’ll be reading Matthew 28, 8-15.
Follow along in the Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Matthew 28, 8-15.
So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to tell his disciples.
And behold, Jesus met them and said, Hail! And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshipped him.
Then Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid.
Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.
While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.
And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sum of money to the soldiers and said, Tell people his disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.
And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.
So they took the money and did as they were directed.
And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
Today’s reading shows how shocked and how surprised the Marys were when they couldn’t find Jesus in the tomb.
The disciples of Jesus were still in some unbelief of his resurrection, just like his death.
The empty tomb made them scared and joyful at the same time.
When the Marys went to see their best friend, they had to have amazing faith that what Jesus told them was true.
This took a lot of faith.
Faith is something that’s hard to explain.
It’s just something you receive from God because we just believe.
Heyo! Today’s saint is Saint Anselm of Canterbury.
Now let’s read his story.
An important thinker and writer, Anselm serves as a bridge from the patristic age and the early Middle Ages.
Born into a wealthy family in Aosta, a city in northern Italy, Anselm was a bit aimless as a young man.
But at the age of 27, he entered the monastery of Bec in Normandy.
He studied deeply and began to write important theological works in the form of dialogues and meditations.
He was elected to abbot works.
Then in 1093, he was appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Everything went well until Anselm made it clear that he would defend the church from the political intrusion of King William II and then Henry I.
For this, he twice suffered exile from his seat.
Anselm’s work, Cur Deus Homo, Why God Became Man, was a groundbreaking theological study of Jesus Christ and his saving death on the cross in the Prothologion.
Anselm made what is known for the autological argument for God’s existence.
His argument has been engaged by philosophers for centuries.
He was made a doctor in the church in 1720 by Pope Clement XI.
Hey, I have something of fun fact for you.
Did you know St.
Anselm made up for the saying, Faith Seeking Understanding?
He told people to study so that you could understand God’s deeper.
But to do this, you have to have faith, even though it’s a little.
Mary Magdalene had a lot more faith after finding the tomb of Jesus empty.
It made her be able to tell others the good news of the gospel.
A good way to help your faith grow in understanding like St.
Anselm is to study and read our Bibles or Saint stories, or another good place to start is to study the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, help us to always have faith, even when it’s hard.
And to take time to learn more so our faith will grow.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
We’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya! Bye!