15th Week of Ordinary Time C – Tuesday – Saint Bonaventure, Franciscan Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you. Today we remember a fellow Franciscan — Saint Bonaventure — a humble servant of truth and justice who served as a bishop and was made a doctor of the Church given his sound and valuable treatise of Christian doctrine. On this day, we are also given the story of Moses’ early life—a tale of courage, identity, and the longing to right what is wrong. Together, these figures—Moses and Bonaventure—show us the virtue of standing with the suffering, in contrast to the hardness of heart we see in Pharaoh, and in Jesus’ words, the unrepentant towns of Chorazin and Bethsaida.