Saint Martin de Porres (1579-1639)
Other saints: Saint Rumwold (7th century); Saint Hubert, Bishop (727); Saint Pirminus, Bishop (753); Bd Alpais (c. 1150-1211); Bd Ida of Fischingen (1226); Bd Simon of Rimini (1319)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 27 The Abbot's Concern for the Excommunicated
Mass: Ph 2:5-11; Resp Ps 22; Lk 14:15-24
All the ends of the earth shall remember and return to the Lord.
In our first reading for today, Saint Paul tells us: "Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus" (Ph 2:5). St Martin de Porres was certainly a man who embraced the same attitude that was his in Christ Jesus. A fellow Dominican brother provided this eyewitness account: "Many were the offices to which the servant of God, Fray Martin de Porres, attended, being barber, surgeon, ward-robe keeper and infirmarian. Each of these jobs was enough for any one man, but he filled them all alone with great generosity, promptness and attention to detail, without being weighed down by any of them. It was most striking, and made me realize that, in that he clung to God in his soul, all these things were effects of divine grace." A man of "all-embracing charity", St Martin de Porres prays for us. May we, like him, be humble servants of the Lord and "confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Ph 2:11). Seek the things that are above (Col 3:1).
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES,
PRAY FOR US.
© Gertrude Feick 2020
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