Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Saint Onuphrius (d. 400); Blessed Alphonsus Mazurek and Companions (20th century); Blessed Hilary Januszewski (1907-1945)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 9 The Number of Psalms at the Night Office
Mass: Is 61:9-11; Resp Ps (1 Sm 2) or 2 Cor 5:14-21; Resp Ps 103; Lk 2:41-51
My heart exults in the Lord, my Savior.
IMMACULATE MARY,
PRAY FOR US.
United in faith and prayer, let's join Mary today, dear Mary, Mother of Jesus, "she who heard the word of God and lived by it-she who listened, then pondered in her heart." Cardinal Basil Hume adds this: "It is a feminine trait to listen, to receive, to watch. Perhaps that is why more women pray than men. Perhaps that is why among contemplatives there are more women than men-it is the 'feminine' which listens and waits. It is a feminine trait, also, to see, to observe. The wine has run out. Mary notices, and being a woman she has a practical mind" (Searching for God, p. 160).
When we pray, the voice of the heart must be heard more than the proceedings from the mouth.
(Saint Bonaventure, 1221-1274)
Mary's heart is like a pearl of incomparable splendor, formed and smoothed by patient acceptance of God's will through the mysteries of Jesus meditated in prayer.
(Pope Francis, Twitter, June 12, 2021)
MARY, MOTHER OF MERCY,
SAINT ONUPHRIUS,
BLESSED ALPHONSUS MAZAREK AND COMPANIONS,
BLESSED HILARY JANUSZEWSKI,
SAINT JOSEPH, MOST CHASTE,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: This is from 2016, when I had the privilege of making the Blessed Virgin Mary for our creche. Mary, Mother of Divine Grace, pray for us.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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