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 Friday, September 12th, and the Gospel reading is Luke 6, 39-42, and the scripture to reflect on is Luke 6, 41. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Have you ever ratted your sibling out or tattletaled on a classmate?
He did it first! Well, she made me do it! One time my grandma made my aunt, when she was younger, wear a tail because she wouldn’t stop tattling on my dad.
I think it’s a funny story.
She learned pretty quick. Today, Jesus is helping us understand that we need to live to be holy.
We can’t always point out the sin in someone else without taking an honest look at the sin in our own life. We point the finger at others, but when somebody points it at us, we are quick to make excuses like it’s not our fault. Try and pay attention to your own life before you try to point out the sin in someone else’s life.
You don’t need to go about and correct everybody else when you have some sinful things in your own life. Today’s Saint of the Day is Saint Hildegard Bengin.
She was born in the year 1098 and died September 17, 1179.
She’s the patron saint of ecology and herbalists. Hildegard was a woman of talent and religious insight.
She was the abbess of two monasteries, composed music pieces, practiced the art of herbal medicine, and offered biblical and theological advice. As a child, Hildegard’s family placed her with a family relative who taught her to pray the Psalms, to read and sing in Latin.
Saint Hildegard also received visions and divine revelations at a very young age.
In fact, she discovered that most people did not have this experience, and she was shocked. So often times she would keep her visions to herself.
Later in life, Hildegard finally told her confessor that she regularly received visions, and he encouraged her to write them down.
The writings were eventually explained, then she became a popular preacher, which is shocking because she was not a cloistered nun, but a woman.
In the year 2012, Benedict XIV named Saint Hildegard a Doctor of the Church. Saint Hildegard had many talents.
She had over 72 music compositions, a play, dozens of poems, and books including works of theology, commentaries on the gospel, and volumes on medical practice and insight. She had deep love for the natural world as God’s creation, and a behalf that every human being is created in the image of God and deserves an opportunity to fulfill their God-given purpose.
She often cared and loved others with a heart of mercy.
Saint Hildegard was known for helping the outcasts. Instead of pointing fingers or saying, he did it, go to Jesus and ask him to point you to the truth.
You will feel better after spending time in prayer and reading his word.
Saint Hildegard’s visions were extraordinary, and they brought her closer to God.
She explained that the union she had with God was a friendship that could not be explained.
We too can have a close friendship with Jesus.
All we need to do is invite him into our everyday activities and know that he is a part of our ordinary life. Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, help us not to be quick to judge others until we make sure that we are doing right ourselves.
And help me to try to keep a close relationship with Jesus who is the greatest friend of all.
Saint Hildegard of Benjamin, pray for us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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We’ll be back next week scattering more flowers.
See ya!