Saints Cosmas and Damian (3rd-4th Century Martyrs)
Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:5-9
Mass: Ecc 11:9-12:8; Resp Ps 90; Lk 9:43b-45
Prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands!
MARY, QUEEN OF MARTYRS,
PRAY FOR US.
In today's Gospel, we find the disciples at first amazed and then afraid. They just don't understand. We join the disciples sometimes amazed, other times afraid, bewildered, not understanding. We suffer, are saddened and discouraged. We are united and remember: Through him, and with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever. Amen.
When I pray, I enter into the depth of my own heart and find there the heart of God, who speaks to me of love. And I recognise, right there, the place where all my sisters and brothers are in communion with one another. The great paradox of the spiritual life is, indeed, that the most personal is the most universal, that the most intimate, is most communal, and the most contemplative is most active.
(Henri Nouwen, Here and Now: Living in the Spirit, in The Tablet, Sept. 12, 2020)
SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN,
PRAY FOR US.
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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