Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:1-4 Humility
Mass: Ecc 3:1-11; Resp Ps 144; Lk 9:18-22
Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!
Before looking at the readings assigned for today's Mass, I read an interview in The Tablet (September 19, 2020, pp. 6-7) with Leroy Logan, who retired in 2013 after a successful 30-year career with Britain's Metropolitan Police. This is what was written about Mr Logan's faith: "Without his faith, he says, he would have 'buckled'. 'It gave me a resolve and a calmness. A lot of people commented on how I didn't appear stressed at work. My response was always, 'I'm too blessed to be stressed.' My attitude was, 'It's in God's hands. He'll deal with it'" (p. 7).
Then came wisdom from the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes: "There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the sun ... God has made everything appropriate to its time and has put the timeless in [our] hearts without [us] ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done" (Ecc 3:1, 11).
May we be inspired by both and continue with the daily by recognizing "that there is nothing better than to be glad and to do well during life. For [all of us], moreover, to eat and drink and enjoy the fruit of all [our] labor is a gift of God. I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus God has done that he may be revered. What now is has already been; what is to be, already is; and God restores what would otherwise be displaced" (Ecc 3:12-15).
JESUS, TREASURE OF THE FAITHFUL,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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