Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 58:1-16 The Reception of New Members
Mass: Wis 18:6-9; Resp Ps 33; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 12:32-48
May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us, we have put our hope in you.
Sundays are often busy days at a monastery, as they can be in any home. Still, there is a sacredness to the Lord's Day that we feel wherever we are and whatever chores there may be to do or guests or family members to serve. Remember what we heard from St Paul yesterday: God loves a cheerful giver. We are united. Jesus reminds us up front in today's Gospel: "Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom." Let's give it up for the Lord; gird our loins and light our lamps. We do not know the hour or the day. Stay awake and be alert as we go about doing the Lord's will for "much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more."
God's assignments are carried out best if God's servants never lose sight of the fact that they might be called to account at any moment … If they forget this immediacy, they have forgotten the content of their earthly mission and the justice and righteousness it incorporates.
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Today's Gospel invites us to abandon ourselves with simplicity and trust to God's will, and to keep "the lamps alight", so we can brighten the darkness of the night.
(Pope Francis, Twitter, August 11, 2019).
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Today's Gospel invites us to abandon ourselves with simplicity and trust to God's will, and to keep "the lamps alight", so we can brighten the darkness of the night.
(Pope Francis, Twitter, August 11, 2019).
SAINT CLARE, PRAY FOR US.
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