Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

National Back to School Month

Saints: Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (283-371); Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868); Saint Peter Faber (1506-1546)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 51 Brothers on a Short Journey

Mass: Nb 11:4b-15; Resp Ps 81; Mt 14:13-21

Sing with joy to God our help.

JESUS, THE MIGHTY GOD,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Welcome to Monday. There is a slight mist in the air that comes as a welcome and unexpected relief. It is a good day to praise God through word and deed with a few words from Cistercian monk and abbot John of Forde (1140-1244) to keep in mind: "O how lovingly we can expect everything from God when we expect nothing from ourselves! There is nothing I cannot do in Him, knowing as I do there is nothing I can do without Him."

I greatly desire to become a saint, that I may be able to make [others] saints and thus procure the glory of God.

(Saint Peter Julian Eymard)

The universal vocation of creation and human beings is to praise God ... We are representatives of the creation (which cannot speak) in praising God.

(Francis Mahieu, ocso, 1912-2002)

SAINT EUSEBIUS OF VERCELLI, 

SAINT PETER JULIAN EYMARD,

SAINT PETER FABER

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: All you birds of the air, and that includes you little corn bunting, bless the Lord.

© Gertrude Feick 2021