Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saint: Saint Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr (c.1580-1623)
Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 35:1-11 Kitchen Servers of the Week
Mass: Wis 13:1-9; Resp Ps 19; Lk 17:26-37
The heavens proclaim the glory of God.
MARY, QUEEN OF MARTYRS,
PRAY FOR US.
We are in what has been called the center of the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict today, namely, Ch 35 Kitchen Servers of the Week. It is in verse one where Saint Benedict tells us that the "brothers should serve one another" (RB 35:1). When reading the Holy Rule, you will see that everything flows from loving service and flows back to loving service, service of God, and service of one another, and receiving service too. For, as the last verse of Ch 72 on the Good Zeal of Monks says, "may Christ bring us all together to everlasting life" (RB 72:12). Everlasting life if not just for the healthy, or just the sick, or just for the elders, or just for the younger, or any one person in particular, we go all together. Yes, we serve "one another in love" (RB 35:6). We "support with greatest patience one another's weaknesses of body or behavior, and earnestly compete in obedience to one another" (RB 72:5-6). Yes, our way of acting should be different than the world's way (RB 4:20), as the life of all Christians should be. Do they know we are Christians by our loving service?
BECAUSE OF THE LORD'S COVENANT AND THE ANCESTRAL LAWS, THE SAINTS OF GOD PERSEVERED IN LOVING BROTHERHOOD, FOR THERE WAS ALWAYS ONE SPIRIT IN THEM, AND ONE FAITH.
(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)
One last thing, I just opened my new book with poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, The Gift. I found this:
Two Giant Fat People
God
And I have become
Like two giant fat people
Living in a
Tiny boat
We
Keep
Bumping into each other and
L
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SAINT JOSAPHAT,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: An early morning sky over the Williamette Valley, OR, seen here September 30.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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