Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 18:1-6 The Order for Reciting the Psalms
Mass: Gn 9:1-13; Resp Ps 102; Mk 8:27-33
From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.
From Archbishop Arthur Roche,
Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the
Sacraments:
It is not without great significance
that today's meeting of Bishops with the Holy Father coincides with the feast
of St Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, who historically was one of the
Church's most outstanding reformers in an age which was not entirely dissimilar
to our own. In the Office of Readings, his letter to a friend reminds us that,
"God's way of working is admirable. He chastises his own in this world to
save them from eternal punishment. He lays low in order to raise up. He cuts in
order to heal. He casts down in order to exalt." Let us pray intently for
the Pope and these Bishops and indeed for the whole Church, not least those who
have been so badly damaged by sexual abuse. We too need to pray and do penance
for we are all members of one body, which has Christ at its head. Saint Peter
Damian was a very brilliant scholar, but all he desired was holiness. It is why
the Lord chose him to reform his Church then whose prayers we now seek.
SAINT PETER DAMIAN, PRAY FOR US.
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