Saint Jerome

Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Jerome. Saint Jerome led a monastic life in service to the poor in his community while also spending a major part of his life in the service of the Church and the Pope. He is most famous for being a scripture scholar and translator of the Latin version of the Bible called the Vulgate. He not only translated the Greek Septuagint scripture to Latin first but then proceeded to also translate the Jewish Hebrew Scriptures to Latin. He spent 30 years of his life in the cave under the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. In the year 2017 my children and I had the blessing to have visited Bethlehem and spend a few minutes in prayer in this very holy and sacred space where Saint Jerome lived a big part of his life while meditating and translating the scriptures. 
We also know that Saint Jerome had a mighty temper so we can seek comfort in that even hot-tempered people have a chance to get to heaven if we rely on the divine mercy of God.
Saint Jerome pray for us!