Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Readings of the Day
RB: RB 4:63-78 The Tools for Good Works
Mass: Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Resp Ps 19; Mt 9:9-13
Their message goes out through all the earth.
MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES,
PRAY FOR US.
May our ears and hearts be open to listening to Jesus: Follow me (Mt 9:9). And to Saint Benedict too: "Never lose hope in God's mercy" (RB 4:74). We go forth, then, and learn the meaning of the words, I desire mercy, not sacrifice (Mt 9:13).
On hearing Christ's voice, we open the door to receive Him, as it were, when we freely ascent to His promptings and when we give ourselves over to what must be done. Christ, since He dwells in the hearts of His chosen ones through the grace of His love, enters so that He might eat with us and we with Him. He ever refreshes us by the light of His presence insofar as we progress in our devotion to the longing for the things of heaven. He Himself is delighted by such a pleasing banquet.
(From a homily by Saint Bede the Venerable, priest, in Office of Readings, September 21)
SAINT MATTHEW,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: A message of beauty.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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