Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:56-58
Mass: 1 Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12; Resp Ps (1 Chr 29): Mk 6:7-13
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND; REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL.
(Gospel Acclamation, Mass)
A fitting introduction to the Pope's February Prayer Intention could be this text: "The commandments are summed up in the command to love. Love is not mere sentiment. Love requires that we refrain from everything that would harm another, and always to will the other person's true well-being" (Magnificat, Prayer for the Evening, February 4, 2020). Now from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network:
Migrants are often victims of criminal human smuggling and human trafficking.
Among other causes, this happens because of corruption on the part of people willing to do anything for financial gain.
The money from their dirty, underhanded business is blood money. I'm not exaggerating: it's blood money.
WE PRAY THAT THE CRIES OF OUR MIGRANT BROTHERS AND SISTERS, VICTIMS OF CRIMINAL HUMAN SMUGGLING AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING, MAY BE HEARD AND CONSIDERED.
SAINTS PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: I've been wanting to use this photo, taken last fall on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington (my alma mater!), for some time. My dear friends in the shade of a great oak. God's grandeur abounds.
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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