Readings for the day:
First Reading: Leviticus 25:1, 8-17
Psalm: Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 7-8
Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12
St. Alphonsus Liguori founded the Redeptorist Order in 1732. He also dedicated his entire adult life to creating a compassionate and theologically sound response to the Jansenist heresy. His small order of brothers and priests became especially important after the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773. Up until their suppression the Jesuits had been the main defenders of Catholic theology against the assults of the Jansenists during the counter-Reformation; their opposition to the Calvinistic qualities of Jansenism was one of the reasons that they were forced to disband.
