Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:49-50
Mass: Jonah 1:1-2:2, 11; Resp Ps (Jonah 2); Lk 10:25-37
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
JESUS, MEEK AND HUMBLE OF HEART,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
Just the other day I was speaking to a group about how we search for God because He first searches for us. And even when we run away from God, He continues to search for us and will even run after us! So goes the case with our beloved Prophet Jonah who fled all the way to the Tarshish and boarded a ship to get away from the Lord (Jonah 1:3). Jonah didn't have much luck though. The Lord continued in hot pursuit, just as He does when we try to run away. It seems better to just go with the flow so to speak and let it be done to us according to His will. But we do the will of the Lord by embracing His words in today's Gospel: You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mid, and your neighbor as yourself (Lk 10:27). Saint Francis of Assisi certainly did. Yes, do this and you will live (Lk 10:28), says the Lord.
We must be simple, humble and pure. We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on all who live in this way and persevere in it to the end. He will permanently dwell in them. They will be the Father's children who do his work. They are the spouses, brothers and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(A letter from St Francis of Assisi to all the faithful, in Office of Readings, October 4)
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: Icon through the hand of Br Claude, OSB, in a chapel alcove, Queen of Angels Monastery, Mt. Angel, OR.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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