Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

Year of Saint Joseph

Other saints: Saint Casimir (1458-1484)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 27 The Abbot's Concern for the Excommunicated

Mass: Jer 17:5-10; Resp Ps 1; Lk 16:19-31

Blessed the one who delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on His law day and night.

JESUS, THE TRUE LIGHT,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

We hear the word of Our Lord God through the Prophet Jeremiah: Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord (Jer 17:7). Saint Benedict echoes in a tool for good works: "Place your hope in God alone" (RB 4:41). Oh, the one who hopes in the Lord "is like a tree planted beside waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: It fears not the heat when it comes, its leaves stay green; In the year of the drought it show no distress, but still bears fruit" (Jer 17:8). May we be about bearing the fruit of our trust and hope in the Lord Our God with those we meet this day. 

To experience Lent in hope entails growing in the realization that, in Jesus Christ, we are witnesses of new times, in which "God is making all things new" (Rev 21:1-6). It means receiving the hope of Christ who gave His life on the cross and was raised by God on the third day, and always being "prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls [us] to account for the hope that is in [us]" (1 Pt 3:10).

(Message of the Holy Father Francis for Lent 2021, 2)

SAINT CASIMIR, DEFENDER OF THE POOR,

SAINT JOSEPH, HOPE OF THE SICK,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: This early morning shot was taken around 5am Monday. 

© Gertrude Feick 2021