Thursday, October 8, 2020

Thursday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 7:59

Mass: Gal 3:1-5; Resp Ps (Lk 1); Lk 11:5-13

The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.

HEART OF JESUS, SON OF THE ETERNAL FATHER,
HAVE MERCY ON US.

With today's Gospel, I recall Saint Benedict's Tools for Good Works, and this tool most specifically: "Never turn away when someone needs your love" (RB 4:26). Perhaps we have had to expand our ways of responding in love to the needs of those who knock at our door during these months, or how we reach out with love to others. What we continue to do is pray for one another. In fact, as Saint Benedict provides another tool for good works, "Devote yourself often to prayer" (RB 4:56). We can ask, as our Catechism tells us, "on behalf of another" (CCC 2635). This intercessory prayer is "characteristic of a heart attuned to God's mercy" (CCC 2635). We ask the Lord to open our hearts and help us receive the mercy and love He extends to us so that we extend mercy and love to others. Indeed, as Father Jacques Philippe says, "Your heart is limited, but thankfully God's is overabundant. He is rich in mercy, and if we ask for this grace, he will help us little by little to truly love." Father in heaven, help all those who are suffering. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
(Lk 11:9-10)

MARY, MOTHER OF MERCY,
MARY, COMFORTER OF THE AFFLICTED,
PRAY FOR US. 

© Gertrude Feick 2020

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