Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor (240-420)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 7:31-34

Mass: Jb 9:1-12, 14-16; Resp Ps 88; Lk 9:57-62

Let my prayer come before you, Lord.

HEART OF JESUS, SUBSTANTIALLY UNITED TO THE WORD OF GOD,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Today we celebrate Saint Jerome, who, as prayed in today's Collect, had "a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture", whom the Holy Father calls the "library of Christ" in his Apostolic Letter Scripturae Sacrae Affectus Devotion to Sacred Scripture, given today from the Lateran Basilica. May we heed Saint Jerome's advice: "Read the Divine Scriptures constantly; never let the sacred volume fall from your hand", for "ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ". Yes, blessed is he who ponders the law of the Lord day and night: he will yield fruit in due season (Entrance Antiphon, Mass).

May we set our hands to the plow, not look to what was left behind (Lk 9:62), and "imitate by our actions that saying of the Lord: I have not come to do my own will, but the will of one who sent me" (RB 7:32).  We go forth with the concluding words of the Pope's Apostolic Letter: Let us, then, entrust ourselves to Our Lady who, more than anyone, can teach us how to read, meditate, contemplate and pray to God, who tirelessly makes himself present in our lives.

SAINT JEROME,

PRAY FOR US.

© Gertrude Feick 2020