Saturday, July 3, 2021

Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle

Year of Saint Joseph

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

First Saturday of the Month

Other saints: Our Lady of Budslau (Belarus)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 26 Unauthorized Association with the Excommunicated

Mass: Eph 2:19-22; Resp Ps 117; Jn 20:24-29

Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

YOU ARE MY GOD AND I CONFESS YOU; YOU ARE MY GOD, AND I EXALT YOU; I WILL THANK YOU, FOR YOU BECAME MY SAVIOR.
(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)

It seems a good day to go with Jesus' greeting to the disciples as He stood in their midst, just as He stands in our midst, as He is present with you right now: Peace be with you (Jn 20:26). May we respond like Thomas, "My Lord and my God" (Jn 20:28). I believe help my unbelief. 

The disbelief of Thomas has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples. As he touches Christ and is won over to belief, every doubt is cast aside and our faith is strengthened. So the disciple who doubted, then felt Christ's wounds, becomes a witness to the reality of the resurrection.
(From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, pope, in Office of Readings, July 3)

SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE,
OUR LADY OF BUDSLAU,
SAINT JOSEPH,
MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES, 
PRAY FOR US. 

Today's photo: More beauty in Windsor, CA.

© Gertrude Feick 2021

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