Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881-1942); Blessed Robert Sutton (1545-1588); Blessed Rudolph Acquaviva and Companions (-1538)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 47 Announcing the Hours for the Work of God
Mass: Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28; Resp Ps 103; Mt 13:36-43
Merciful and gracious is the Lord.
WHOEVER HAS EARS OUGHT TO HEAR.
(Mt 13:43)
When I read Jesus' words to the disciples in today's Gospel, I thought of something Jesus said to the disciples earlier in the same chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel: Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear (Mt 13:16). May we open our eyes and our ears and our hearts to fully receive the Word of God. In other words, be receptive to the Word of God in all things, people, and events, for as Cistercian monk Father Francis Mahieu Acharya (1912-2002) said: "Being receptive to the Word of God that comes to us through everyday events is real contemplation."
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all His benefits.
(Communion Antiphon, Mass)
SAINT TITUS BRANDSMA,
BLESSED ROBERT SUTTON,
BLESSED RUDOLPH ACQUAVIVA AND COMPANIONS,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: Camellia from the monastery.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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