Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Angela Merici (1470-1540)
75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:10-18
Mass: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Resp Ps 89; Mk 3:22-30

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

The first step of humility is to cherish at all times the sense of awe with which we should ever turn to God. It should drive all forgetfulness away; it should keep our minds alive to all God's guidance and commandments. 

(RB 7:10-11)

In the midst of Ch 7 in the Holy Rule, on humility, and in remembering the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, we pause and reflect. 

If we lose our memory, we destroy our future. May the anniversary of the Holocaust, the unspeakable cruelty that humanity learned of 75 years ago, serve as a summons to pause, and to be still and to remember. We need to do this, lest we become indifferent.

(Pope Francis, Twitter, January 27, 2020)

Hope is the last to die.

(Halina Birenbaum, survivor of multiple concentration camps)

SAINT ANGELA MERICI,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: From my 2014 visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.


© Gertrude Feick 2020