Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation: "A Home for All? Renewing the Oikos of God"

Saints: Saint Giles, Patron of Edinburgh (c.650-c.710); Saint Teresa Margaret Redi of the Sacred Hear (1747-1770)

Readings of the Day

RB: Prologue 1-7

Mass: Col 1:1-8; Resp Ps 52; Lk 4:38-44

I will thank you always for what you have done.

Welcome to September. One thing I like about the various Letters of Saint Paul is how the Apostle begins with a greeting. Wouldn't it be nice to greet all those we meet in a similar way: Grace to you and peace from God our Father (Col 1:2). And what follows in today's Letter to the Colossians is especially nice: We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you (Col 1:3).

On this first day of September we begin our third reading of the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict for this year. Verses 1-7 of the Prologue are packed. The first word is one many familiar with the Holy Rule know by heart. Listen. So why not listen and take some of Pope Francis's words to heart: "Ask the Lord for the strength to turn off the television and open the Bible, to turn off our cell phone and open the Gospel" (Pope Francis, homily, January 24, 2021).  And then, as Saint Benedict says, "every time you begin a good work, you must pray to Him most earnestly to bring it to perfection" (RB Prol. 4).

She immediately got up and waited on them. 

(Lk 4:39)

SAINT GILES,

SAINT TERESA MARGARET REDI OF THE SACRED HEART,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: This is where I was on September 1, 2010. Kloster Maria Rickenbach, in the village of Niederrickenbach, Switzerland, home of the Benedictine Sisters. I'm looking up from behind the monastery. I have fond of memories of privileged time spent with the Sisters of Maria Rickenbach, the mother house of the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel, OR.

© Gertrude Feick 2021