Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (entered the Society of Jesus at age 13!), Priest, and Saint Pedro Calungsod (-1672)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 17 The Number of Psalms to Be Sung at These Hours
Mass: Eph 3:2-12; Resp Ps (Is 12); Lk 12:39-48
You will draw joyfully from the springs of salvation.
MUCH WILL BE REQUIRED OF THE PERSON ENTRUSTED WITH MUCH, AND STILL MORE WILL BE DEMANDED OF THE PERSON ENTRUSTED WITH MORE.
(Lk 12:48)
We have been given the gift of our faith and entrusted with much as disciples of Jesus Christ. We carry our crosses day in and day out, individually and collectively. We each have our own burdens to carry but at the same time we share our burdens. We are not alone. We are the Body of Christ and as Saint Paul writes, "As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ ... if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy" (1 Cor 12:12, 26). Reflecting on the pandemic in his recent Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti Fraternal and Social Friendship, Pope Francis writes: "we are a global community, all in the same boat, where one person's problems are the problems of all. Once more we realized that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together" (42). May we be united in faith, hope, and love.
Our hope is essentially also hope for others; only thus is it truly hope for me too. As Christians we should never limit ourselves to asking: how can I save myself? We should also ask: what can I do in order that others may be saved and that for them too the star of hope may rise? Then I will have done my utmost for my own personal salvation as well.
(Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi On Christian Hope, 48)
BLESSED DIEGO LUIS DE SAN VITORES AND SAINT PEDRO CALUNGSOD,
PRAY FOR US.
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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