St Cecilia is the saint we celebrate today. Not much tangible is known about her, even though she was one of the most famous Roman martyrs venerated in the Early Church. According to Tradition, Cecilia was from an influential Roman family. She converted her fiancé to the Christian faith, but Cecilia, her fiancé, and his brother were all martyred. Tradition holds that there was a church named after her in Rome in the early days of Christianity. Although we are not sure of its origin, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians. We unite our prayers with the intercessions of St Cecilia today. We pray for all of our Church musicians.
We have a very interesting first reading from the book of Revelation today. Several times in Sacred Scripture, prophets are told to eat pages of God’s Holy Word. This happens to the prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Today, in Revelation, John is told to take the scroll that is in the hand of the angel and to eat it. Asking these men to actually eat the pages of God’s word is symbolic of how the word is to become a part of our entire being. Rather than remaining on the surface of our lives, the word of God is to enter our lives, we are to chew on it and digest it, to be strengthened by it and nourished by it. Only then can we become evangelizers of God’s word and to transmit that word to others. By eating God’s word in the book of Revelation, John acquired a greater understanding of the word. May God’s word always be at the center of our lives. May it be an integral part of our entire being.
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