Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
National Back to School Month
Saints: Blessed Victoria Rasoamanarivo (1848-1894); Saint Alberto Hurtado Chucaga (1901-1952); Blesseds John-Baptist Duvernaeuil, Michael-Aloysius Brulard and James Gagnot (d. 1794)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 63:1-9 Community Rank
Mass: Jdgs 9:6-15; Resp Ps 21; Mt 20:1-16
Lord, in your strength the king is glad.
WITH THE LORD THERE IS MERCY; IN HIM IS PLENTIFUL REDEMPTION.
(Communion Antiphon, Mass)
Considering the grumbling of the hired laborers in today's Gospel, and just in case we have any grumbling about this or that, it is a good day to let Saint Augustine (354-430) add some perspective:
So we must not grumble, my brothers, for as the Apostle says: Some of them murmured and were destroyed by serpents. Is there any affliction now endured by mankind that was not endured by our fathers before us? What sufferings of ours even compare with what we know of their sufferings? And yet you hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were so much better in former times. I wonder what would happen if they could be taken back to the days of their ancestors-would we not still hear them complaining? You may think past ages were good, but is is only because you are not living in them.
(From a sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop, in Office of Readings, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday)
BLESSED VICTORIA RASOAMANARIVO,
SAINT ALBERTO HURTADE CHUCAGA,
BLESSEDS JOHN-BAPTISH DUVERNAEUIL,
MICHAEL-ALOYSIOU BRULARD, AND
JAMES GAGNOT,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: I especially like the color of these in our garden of delights.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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