Year of Saint Joseph
Other saints: Saint Claude la Colombiere (1641-1682)
International Childhood Cancer Day
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 13:1-11 The Celebration of Lauds on Ordinary Days
Mass: Gn 4:1-15, 25; Resp Ps 50; Mk 8:11-13
Offer to God a sacrifice of praise.
BE MY PROTECTOR, O GOD, A MIGHTY STRONGHOLD TO SAVE ME. FOR YOU ARE MY ROCK, MY STRONGHOLD! LEAD ME, GUIDE ME, FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR NAME.
(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)
In our first reading, the Lord asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Then Cain asks the Lord, "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gn 4:9). Yes, we are to look after and care for another. This takes me to something I read recently: "Better the enemy who tells you the truth than the friend who does not."
May the Lord inspire everyone to draw near to those who suffer, especially children, and to put the weakest in first place. I entrust the doctors and all sick children to the Virgin Mary so that with her motherly affection she might look after them.
(Pope Francis for International Childhood Cancer Day, February 15, 2021)
SAINT CLAUDE LA COLOMBIERE,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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