Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

Saints: Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Padre Pio (1887-1968); Saint Adoman of Iona (627/8-704)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 5:14-19 Obedience

Mass: Haggai 1:1-8; Resp Ps 149; Lk 9:7-9

The Lord takes delight in His people.

MARY, QUEEN OF CONFESSORS,

PRAY FOR US. 

The disciples' obedience must be given gladly, for God loves a cheerful giver.

(Rule of Saint Benedict 5:16)

We commemorate a remarkable saint today, Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio. It is said that over 100,000 people attended his funeral, and that six million pilgrims visit his shrine at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, each year. We turn to Padre Pio who has plenty to teach us about obedience, humility, and other things too.

Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue, there is no goodness, no love; and where there is no love there is no God; without God we do not go to Paradise.

(Saint Pio of Pietrelcina)

Walk with simplicity in the way of the Lord and do not torment your spirit. Learn to hate your faults, but to hate them calmly.

(Saint Pio of Pietrelcina)

Humility, humility and always humility. Satan fears and trembles before humble souls. The Lord is willing to do great things, but on the condition that we are truly humble.

(Saint Pio of Pietrelcina)

Go ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not go forward goes backward. It is the same with a boat which must always go forward. If it stands still, the wind will blow it back.

(Saint Pio of Pietrelcina)

SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA,

SAINT ADOMAN OF IONA,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: The Lord certainly takes delight in the people who created this. And then a passage from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah was proclaimed at Vigils this morning. Hear this about idols: "Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, they cannot speak; They must be carried about, for they cannot walk" (Jer 10:5). This scarecrow from the community garden at Luscher Farm, West Linn, OR.

© Gertrude Feick 2021