Word to the Wise
Friday, August 24, 2018 - Friday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
[Ezek 37:1-14 and Matt 22:34-40,495]FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2018 ST. BARTHOLOMEW, apostle [Revelation 21:9b-14 and John 1:45-51] The wall of the city had twelve courses of stones as its foundation, on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. [Revelation] The brand new Catholic student center at Texas Tech University where I live with the Dominican friars who serve the Catholic campus ministry has a lot of stones and bricks with the names of donors and supporters, especially Mr. John Saleh, after whom the building is named. Whenever I go over there and see all these stones and bricks I think of the passage from the Book of Revelation that describes the foundation stones of the New Jerusalem, the people of God - the Church. The apostle, Bartholomew, is mentioned in three of the four gospels and in the Acts of the Apostles, but that is pretty much all he gets - a honorable mention. However, that honorable mention is substantial because the Church stands on the original witness of the apostles. At our campus ministry, we pray in gratitude for our benefactors who have made our new student center possible, but at every celebration of the Eucharist, we pray in thanksgiving for the apostolic witness that gave birth to the Church. Bartholomew was one of the Twelve and today he gets our honorable mention. AMEN
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