Saturday of the Twenty-First 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 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Doctor of Grace (354-430)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 70 The Presumption of Striking Another Monk at Will

Mass: 1 Th 4:9-11; Resp Ps 98; Mt 25:14-30

Be glad in the Lord, you just.

O LORD, YOU HAVE MADE US FOR YOURSELF AND RESTLESS IS OUR HEART UNTIL IT COMES TO REST IN YOU.

(Saint Augustine, Confessions, I, 1)

As we commemorate the great Saint Augustine, Doctor of Grace, it's not a bad idea to pick up a copy of his Confessions, and read some of it. Two excerpts are given in yesterday's and today's Office of Readings. You can find several translations online too. Looking at Ch 1 or Ch 27 will keep one busy enough. In the first chapter, Augustine praises God and acknowledges his own sin. In the 27th chapter Augustine grieves that he was so long without God. I have included two teaser quotations for you. And if we look to today's Gospel, Augustine was certainly not someone who buried the talents given to him. For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away (Mt 25:29).

Late have I love you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!

(Saint Augustine, Confessions, 27)

SAINT AUGUSTINE,

SAINT MONICA,

SAINT JOSEPH, 

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Beautiful and dear friend Anna and I at the entrance to the ancient city of Ostia, on the Tiber, where Saint Augustine was with his mother Saint Monica when she died.

© Gertrude Feick 2021