Monday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

Saints: Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and companions, 18th-19th Century Korean Martyrs

Readings of the Day

RB:  Ch 4:44-62 Tools for Good Works

Mass: Ezra 1:1-6; Resp Ps 126; Lk 8:161-8

The Lord has done marvels for us.

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE OTHERS, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND GLORIFY YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.

(Gospel Versicle, Mass)

As we begin another new week, we also commemorate 103 Korean martyrs, "mostly lay men and women: some married, some not; some old, some young, some even children." May all of them, who most certainly went about doing good, intercede for us, so that we follow their example and with deep faith and courage, let our light shine before others.

Yearn for everlasting life with holy desire.

Day by day remind yourself that you are going to die.

Hour by hour keep watch over all you do, aware that God's gaze is upon you, wherever you may be.

As soon as wrongful thoughts come into your heart, dash them against Christ and disclose them to your spiritual father.

Guard your lips from harmful or deceptive speech..

Prefer moderation in speech and speak no foolish chatter, nothing just to provoke laughter; do not love immoderate or boisterous laughter.

Listen readily to holy reading.

Devote yourself often to prayer,

Every day with tears and sighs confess your past sins to God in prayer and change from these evil ways in the future.

Do not aspire to called holy before you really are, but first be holy that you may more truly be called so.

(Rule of Saint Benedict, 4:46-56, 62) 

Witnesses do not lose themselves in words, but rather they bear fruit. They do not complain about others and the world, but start with themselves. They remind us that God is not to be proven, but shown; not announced with proclamations but witnessed by example.

(Pope Francis, Twitter)

SAINTS ANDREW KIM TAEGON, PAUL CHONG HASANG, AND COMPANIONS,

MARY, QUEEN OF MARTYRS,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Back to our garden of delights that keeps on going.

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