Hello everyone! Heyo! Welcome back to Scattering Flowers with Elise and Myles, a podcast where we read the daily Gospels and the Saint of the Day.
Let’s get started! Today is Monday, April 20th, and the Gospel reading is John 6, 22-29, and the scripture to reflect on is John 6, 27. Do not work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. There are so many kinds of food that we can eat! For example, blueberries and beans, and bread and bacon.
These are all different, but they all feed our body, and they’re all delicious. As a human, you need food for your body, but there’s another kind of food too, food for your soul, the kind of food that restaurants don’t give you, only Jesus can. Today’s Saint of the Day is Saint Bueno.
He was born either in the 6th or 7th century.
He is a patron saint of sick animals.
Little is known about Saint Bueno.
Early biographers confused him from a distant cousin of the same name who lived two or three generations later.
Bueno had believed to be born around 545 into a royal family in a Welsh kingdom.
He received a good education, became a priest, and for many years traveled around as a monk and hermit like Saint David, who had labored a farther south not long before Bueno and his followers carried out a missionary activity in the vicinity of his monastery, as well as neighboring regions on a nearby island. There are some ways that you can feed your soul, like taking quiet time each day to talk to Jesus, telling someone that you love them, reading a Bible, stop and think, I have a guardian angel standing right next to me, and when you’re outside, thank God for creating everything. When Bueno died, he became famous for his intercessions for the sick and even sick animals.
Pilgrims would sleep on the nearby saint’s tombs in hope of a cure, and it said many miraculous healings resulted, even though a few facts are known about the saint that we know, his heart was tender, he cared for others, and still does in heaven today. Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear Jesus, thank you for giving me food for my soul.
Help me to feed my soul.
And help me to always care for others, no matter what the cost.
Saint Bueno, pray for us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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