Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Saint Henry (973-1024); Saint Teresa of Los Andes (1900-1920)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 35:1-11 Kitchen Servers of the Week
Mass: Ex 2:1-15a; Resp Ps 69; Mt 11:2-24
I have reached the watery depths; the flood overwhelms me.
HEART OF JESUS, PATIENT AND MOST MERCIFUL,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
It has been said that the first verse from today's reading from the Holy Rule is the center of the Rule. It is there in the chapter on kitchen servers of the week that Saint Benedict tell us that we should serve one another (RB 35:1). Then our holy father tells us how we are to go about it. So important is kitchen service is that no one is to be excused from it. However, help is assigned as needed, and adjustments are made for the sick and those otherwise engaged. In the end, we are to serve one another in love. And wherever we are at work, home, or in community, we can do all that we do for one another in love.
Henry, king by the preordained mercy of God, to all the sons of the church, both future and present. By all most salutary instructions of sacred eloquences we are taught and advised to abandon temporal riches, to lay aside earthly goods, and to strive to reach the eternal and everlasting dwelling-places in heaven. For present glory is fleeting and meaningless, while it is possessed, unless in it we can glimpse something of heaven's eternity. But God's mercy toward the human race provided a useful remedy when he made the reward for earthly existence a share in our heavenly country.
(From the ancient Life of Saint Henry, in Office of Readings, July 13)
SAINT HENRY,
SAINT TERESA OF LOS ANDES,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: This looks refreshing to me. Thanks EJF for the nice photo of Laguna Beach.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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