Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
First Friday of the Month
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 25 Serious Faults
Mass: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67; Resp Ps 106; Mt 9:9-13
All peoples clap your hands. Cry to God with shouts of joy!
HEART OF JESUS, SOURCE OF ALL CONSOLATION,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
In a Vatican media interview with Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, who was in Rome recently for the celebration of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, His Eminence Emmanuel said something that I continue to reflect on. I include it here for your reflection and also because it relates in some ways to Jesus' simple call to Matthew in today's Gospel: Follow me (Mt 9:13). Maybe we need to not think so much about it and just respond more like Matthew did, that is to get up and follow Jesus.
Announcing the Gospel in the world is not a matter of strategy. I fear we are thinking more about the survival of Christianity than about sharing the good news of the Risen Christ.
Today's photo: A burst of beauty in my cousin's yard in Windsor, CA, what she likes to call "firecracker plants" as they always appear in time for the Fourth of July. Officially, these lovely flowers are called Agapanthus, or a neighbor said she always called them Lily of the Nile. May God be praised.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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