Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

Saints: Saint John Jones (-1598); SS. Louis Martin and Marie Azelie Guerin, parents of eight children including the future Saint Therese of Lisieux (19th century)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 34 Distribution of Goods According to Need

Mass: Ex 1:8-14, 22; Resp Ps 124; Mt 10:34-11:1

Our help is in the name of the Lord.

HEART OF JESUS, OF INFINITE MAJESTY,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Welcome to Monday. As I have written before, Mondays are Mondays wherever we are. Mondays just always seem to present a few contradictions here and there. That is, things that upset our apple cart. C'est le vie. Let there be no grumbling, however, as Saint Benedict tells us in today's reading from the Holy Rule: "First and foremost, there must be no word or sign of the evil of grumbling, no manifestation of it for any reason at all: (RB 34:6). Instead may we be about open hearts to receive more fully the love and mercy of Jesus. Whoever receives you receives me, says the Lord, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me (Mt 10:40).

You were taught that our fathers were covered by a cloud, a cloud of blessing that cooled the fire of bodily passions. A cloud of blessing: it is with a cloud of blessing that the Holy Spirit overshadows those whom he comes to visit.

(From a treatise On the Mysteries by Saint Ambrose, bishop, Office of Readings, Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday) 

SAINT JOHN JONES,

SS. LOUIS MARTIN AND MARIE AZELIE GUERIN,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: This is an awesome cloud formation over Lake Tippecanoe, Leesburg, IN. From what I found, it appears to be a roll cloud, one type of arcous clouds, the other called a shelf cloud. It's new to me in any case, and fascinating. Even if it's just a contrail. 😊 Thanks bro James A.

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