Robert Bellarmine was born in Tuscany in 1543 in the midst of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic counter Reformation. He was ordained in 1570 to the priesthood as a member of the Jesuit order. He devoted himself to the study of the Church Fathers and the study of Church history. He was the first Jesuit to teach at the Catholic university in Louvain, Belgium. His most famous work is a three-volume entitled Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith. He was made a Cardinal by Pope Clement VIII. He became a theological advisor to him. He died in 1621. The process to become a saint can be a long one. Even though that process was started shortly after his weather, he was not canonized until 1930. The next year, he was declared Doctor of the Church.
Psalm 111 declares "how great are the works of the Lord." We can give thanks to the works of the Lord and glorify the works of the Lord in many ways. We may all not be Scripture scholars or authors of important works of theology. By we had glorify the Lord and his works in humble ways, of being ambassadors of hope and love. We can glorify the Lord through humble works of mercy. May we serve the Lord in the ways in which we are called.
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