Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

National Back to School Month

Saint: Pope Saint Pius X (1835-1914); 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, Korea's First Native-Born Priest (1821-1846)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 63:7-22

Mass: Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17; Resp Ps 128; Mt 23:1-12

See how the Lord blesses those who fear Him.

Two things for today. First, why not read and reflect on the Book of Ruth. A beautiful story of fidelity, it is not long, only four short chapters. I love Ruth, and especially something she said to Naomi: "Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! for wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Wherever you do die I will die, and there be buried. May the Lord do so and so to me, and more besides, if aught but death separate me from you?" (Ruth 1:16-17). 

Second, considering the words of Pope Saint Pius X below, why not pray with the psalms? Do you have a favorite psalm? If you don't have a favorite psalm, find one and make a new friend with it. 😊

The psalms have a wonderful power to awaken in our hearts the desire for every virtue ... Indeed, who could fail to be moved by those many passages in the psalms which set forth so profoundly the infinite majesty of God, his omnipotence, his justice and goodness and clemency, too deep for words, and other infinite qualities of his that deserve our praise? Who could fail to be roused to the same emotions by the prayers of thanksgiving to God for blessings received, by the petitions, so humble and confident, for blessings still awaited, by the cries of a soul in sorrow for sin committed? Who could not be fired with love as he looks on the likeness of Christ, the redeemer, here so lovingly foretold? His was the voice Augustine heard in every psalm, the voice of praise, of suffering, of joyful expectation, of present distress.

(From the apostolic constitution Divino afflatu of Pope Saint Pius X, in Office of Readings, August 21, 2021)

POPE SAINT PIUS X,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: How's this for a dinner plate dahlia!

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