Tuesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Our Lady of Pompeii

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:59
Mass: Jon 3:1-10; Resp Ps 130; Lk 10:38-42

With the Lord is kindness and with him is plenteous redemption.

May we be as attentive and focused as Mary, "who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak."

We may spend our whole lives waiting to live. Thus we risk not fully accepting the reality of our present lives, Yet, what guarantee is there that we won't be disappointed when the long-awaited time arrives? Meanwhile we don't put our hearts sufficiently into today, and so miss graces we should be receiving. Let us live each moment to the full … To live today well we should also remember that God only asks for one thing at a time, never two. It doesn't matter whether the job we have in hand is sweeping the kitchen floor or giving a speech to forty thousand people. We must put our hearts into it, simply and calmly, and not try to solve more than one problem at a time. Even when what we're doing is genuinely trifle, it's a mistake to rush through it as though we felt we were wasting our time. If something, no matter how ordinary, needs to be done and is part of our lives, it's worth doing for its own sake, and worth putting our hearts into.

(Father Jacques Philippe)

Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.
(Gospel acclamation, Mass)

OUR LADY OF POMPEII, PRAY FOR US.

© Gertrude Feick 2019