Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Pope Saint Cornelius (-253) and Saint Cyprian, bishop (210-258), Martyrs

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 3:1-6 Summoning the Community for Counsel
Mass: 1 Cor 12:31-13:13; Resp Ps 33; Lk 7:31-35

The Lord loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.

SO FAITH, HOPE, LOVE REMAIN, THESE THREE; 

BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.

(1 Cor 13:13)

We are blessed once again with Saint Paul's beautiful and challenging passage on love. And it seems a fitting day to share the following poem. 

Love

Czeslaw Milosz

Love means to learn to look at yourself

The way one looks at distant things

For you are only one thing among many.

And whoever sees that way heals his heart,

Without knowing it, from various ills-

A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.

Then he wants to use himself and things

So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.

It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:

Who serves best doesn't always understand.

SAINTS CORNELIUS AND CYPRIAN,

PRAY FOR US. 

© Gertrude Feick 2020