Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

Other saints: Bl. Nicholas of Paglia, OP (1197-1256), given the habit by Saint Dominic who made Nicholas one of his traveling companions

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 13:12-14

Mass: Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10; Resp Ps 29; Mk 8:14-21

Be my protector, O God, a mighty stronghold to save me.

OH, THAT TODAY YOU WOULD HEAR HIS VOICE; 

HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS AT MERIBAH, 

AS ON THAT DAY OF MASSAH IN THE DESERT.

(Ps 95:8)

Jesus' question in today's Gospel provides a fitting lead for what Saint Benedict tells us in today's selection from the Holy Rule. Jesus asks, "Are your hearts hardened?" (Mk 8:17). Saint Benedict writes: "Assurdly, the celebration of Lauds and Vespers must never pass by without the superior's reciting the entire Lord's Prayer at the end for all to hear, because thorns of contention are likely to spring up. Thus warned by the pledge they make to one another in the very words of the prayers: Forgive us as we forgive, they may cleanse themselves of this kind of vice" (RB 13:12-13).

BL. NICHOLAS OF PAGLIA,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Welcome to Indianapolis, Indiana, yesterday afternoon. Here, it was freezing, I was told, with a wind chill of -2. It was to snow until midnight. Thanks MJM, resident "Swoop McClain". 😊

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