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, July 6th, and for the summer weeks, we are going to do the ABCs of our Catholic faith and saints.
Today is the letter U for universal, and the scripture to reflect on is Galatians 3, 28.
There is neither Jew nor Greek.
There is neither slave nor free.
There is neither male nor female.
For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Jesus started the Catholic Church, which holds all his grace and truth to help everyone be saved inside each person’s heart.
There is a feeling that wants to know and to be close to God.
That’s because God made us and he made us to be with him and to do important works for him.
Religion teaches us what these works are.
Our religion helps us do what we are made to do.
This is love and God in the world, and to be happy forever with him in the next.
We must follow him and join his church and receive the sacraments, starting with baptism.
Today’s saint of the day is you, Saint Ursula.
Her birth is unknown and she died in 383.
She is the patron saint of Catholic educators.
Saint Ursula was the daughter of a fourth century Christian king in Britain.
She was a beautiful, intelligent, outgoing, and friendly girl.
Ursula was a spiritual girl at the early age, had dedicated herself to God, and had decided to remain a virgin because of her love of Christ.
At that time, young girls did not choose their own husbands.
Their parents decided whom they should marry.
A powerful pagan king requested of Ursula’s father that she would marry his son, Ursinus, a pagan king sent apostraters to Ursula’s father offering large sums of money and other promises if the marriage took place.
However, they added terrible threats of what would happen if the marriage would not take place.
Ursula’s father was very afraid for three reasons.
One is because he was afraid of the violent reaction of the other king.
He didn’t think that Ursula would agree to marry, and both he and Ursula would perform a Christian marriage.
Much like her father’s surprise, Ursula, inspired by God, agreed to the marriage but only on certain conditions.
The mission of the apostles consists in the mission of the whole church to preach the kingdom of God and to establish it among all people.
The church stands on three legs, like a stool.
Scripture, tradition, and magisterium.
It also has four legs, like a table.
One family through baptism, holy because we love God, universal, which means that the church is for everyone and everywhere, and apostolic, the church is based on the teachings of the apostles, Jesus' first followers.
Ursula’s father also invited a group of young men to accompany her and young people.
Beginning arriving from all directions to join the voyage.
During the journey, Ursula converted all the girls to Christianity and soon they arrived in Cologne, Germany.
Here, an angel appeared to Ursula and told her that she and all her companions would return to this place and win the crown of murderism.
When Ursula and her companions arrived in Cologne, they met the Huns who were only interested in women for pleasure.
Ursula and the young girls resisted the violation.
Ursula firmly refused the leader Julius' proposal because she wanted to keep the promise she had made to God to remain a virgin.
Julius was so enraged that he threw an arrow towards her which pierced her heart and killed her.
And so, Ursula and her companions were martyred in Cologne.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, thank you for your one true, holy, and apostolic church that we all belong to.
And help us to always trust in how to live our lives.
Saint Ursula pray for us.
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!