# Gathered Together From the Ends of the Earth

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Podcast: [Divine Office - Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church](https://stenobird.com/podcast/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812)
Published: 2026-07-06T20:34:00+00:00
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The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Optional Memorials of St Maria Goretti and St Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions - The Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot · Liturgical Colours: White/Green/Red This week the Hours return constantly to a single image: the Church as one body, gathered from scattered pieces into a single loaf. Saint Clement opens and closes the week pleading against the schism dividing the Corinthians. The Didache prays it directly on Wednesday — bread scattered on the mountains, gathered and made one. Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians, on Friday, names the barrier itself: "the barrier of hostility that kept us apart." Saint Ambrose asks us to throw open the gate of the heart . And on Saturday, Saint Benedict's Rule gives the practical form this gathering takes: a community bound together by putting Christ before everything. The thread is unity — not the absence of difference, but the deliberate, costly work of staying gathered, staying open, staying one. Gathered Together Saint Clement of Rome, writing to a Corinthian church that had split into factions, opens the week's Office of Readings on Monday with the question underneath everything that follows: "Why do we tear apart and divide the body of Christ? Why do we revolt against our own body?" — Second Reading, Office of Readings, Monday This week the Church celebrates optionally, Saint Maria Goretti on Monday, and Saint Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions on Thursday. These saints share a foundational bond, a togetherness: they wore the crown of martyrdom, they chose death over renouncing their Christian faith and virtues. By Tuesday , this week's theme turns outward. Saint Augustine insists that even those separated from the Church remain brothers — "whether they like it or not." And Tuesday's Mornin…

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