Thursday of the Second Week of Easter

Year of Saint Joseph

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 61:1-5 The Reception of Visiting Monks

Mass: Acts 5:27-33; Resp Ps 34; Jn 3:31-36

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be ever in my mouth.

BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.

ALLELUIA.

(Communion Antiphon, Mass)

There was something Pope Francis said yesterday at the General Audience, where he continued his catechesis on Christian prayer, that I like very much: "Praying and working in community keeps the world going. It is a motor." Keep the motor going today and pray with your favorite psalm, or Responsorial Psalm 34 will do. Surely the Apostles, who had more than a few people infuriated with them and who wanted to put them to death (Acts 5:33), prayed with it. Remember too what Saint Benedict wrote in his chapter on the daily manual labor: "Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brothers should have specified periods for manual labor as well as for prayerful reading" (RB 48:1). Rev the motor today! 😊

THE LORD HEARS THE CRY OF THE POOR.

I will bless the Lord at all times;

His praise shall be ever in my mouth.

Taste and see how good the Lord is;

blessed the man who takes refuge in Him.

The Lord confronts the evildoers;

to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.

When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, 

and from all their distress He rescues them.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted;

and those who are crushed in spirit He saves.

Many are the troubles of the just man,

but out of them all the Lord delivers them.

(Responsorial Psalm 34)

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: On another exploration of  Eureka's medical office parking lots, I discovered this beauty. 

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