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 Tuesday, July 7th, and for the summer weeks we are going to do the ABCs of our Catholic Faith and Saints.
Today is the letter V for vestments, and the scripture to reflect on is Psalm 96, 9.
Worship the Lord in holy attire, tremble before him all the earth.
Do you want to know a fun fact?
What a priest wears, the vestments, back in Roman times, was considered normal clothing.
Ordinary people clothing changed vestments, remained the same so to separate how special mass was from day-to-day life.
When a priest is in vestments, it helps you recognize that you are stepping into something sacred.
And also, every priest wears a vestment when he says mass, so that it’s another sign that the Catholic Church is universal and the same wherever you might be.
When a priest puts on his vestments back in the sacristy before he begins mass, he washes his hands and usually says the prayer of peace.
Today’s Saint of the Day is V, Saint Vincent de Paul.
He was born in 1581 and died in 1660.
He is the patron saint of charitable societies.
Vincent was born in France in 1581.
When he was still a young priest, he was captured by Turkish pirates who sold him into slavery.
For two years, he had to work hard for the masters who brought him.
He converted his last master and then was set free.
Vincent was sent to do parish work near Paris.
He was a very great friend of the poor.
He organized groups to look after the needy.
The women nursed the sick and cooked meals for them.
Men found jobs for the poor who were able to work and gave food and clothing to those who did not work.
Vincent also founded the Daughters of the Charity.
With the help of these sisters, he gathered money to clothe and feed the poor and to nurse the sick.
He built homes for the poor, for the sick, for he aged and for abandoned children.
Each part of the vestment that the priest puts on represents different scripture meanings.
Some represent the armor of God.
Some represent little prayers of peace or purity or blessings or baptism.
The tertiarchal vestments are different than what you would see people wearing walking down the street.
It’s because it shows that something special happens in the Mass through Jesus.
Did you know that Vincent also founded the Congregation of the Mission or Lazarists, a society of priests and missionaries?
He was almost 80 years old when he died in Paris in 1660.
His body was found to be incorrupt 50 years after his death.
St.
Vincent is called the Apostle of Organized Charity.
The St.
Vincent de Paul Society continues his work for the poor.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, thank you for priests who give up their time and talent to serve you.
And help us to care for the poor like St.
Vincent de Paul did.
St.
Vincent de Paul, 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!