Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Catholic Schools Week
World Leprosy Day
In other years: Saint Aedan of Ferns (c.550-632)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 7:31-33 Humility
Mass: Jer 4:1-5, 17-19; Resp Ps 71; 1 Cor 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30
Be my rock of refuge.
JESUS, OUR REFUGE,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
Words are few today. It's our reading from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah; it always brings a smile to my face. The Lord said to Jeremiah, and says to each one of us, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you (Jer 1:4). I simply marvel at this. What I come to is this: Lord, show me the path of life, the fullness of joy in your presence.
The Virgin Mary, model of every vocation did not fail to utter her "fiat" in response to the Lord's call. She is at our side and she guides us. With the generous courage born of faith, Mary sang of the joy of leaving herself behind and entrusting to God the plans she had for her life. Let us turn to her, so that we may be completely open to what God has planned for each of us, so that we can grow in the desire to go out with tender concern towards others (cf. Lk 1:39). May the Virgin Mary protect and intercede for us all.
(Pope Francis, Message for the 52nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations, from the Vatican, March 29, 2015)
The second step of humility is that a man loves not his own will nor takes pleasure in the satisfaction of his desires; rather he shall imitate by his actions that saying of the Lord: I have come not do to my own will, but the will of him who sent me (Jn 6:38). Similarly we read, "Consent merits punishment, constraint wins a crown.
(Rule of Saint Benedict, 7:31-33)
LOVE NEVER FAILS.
(1 Cor 13:8)
To celebrate Catholic Schools Week, we will include in our daily litany some of the saints who were educators, devoting themselves to teaching our faith to young and old alike. Be alert; the litany may grow as the week progresses. And for today, as we pray for all those who suffer with leprosy, or Hansen's Disease, we invoke two saints who committed their lives to caring for those with the disease.
SAINT AEDEN OF FERNS,
SAINT DAMIEN OF MOLOKAI,
SAINT MARIANNE COPE,
SAINT JOHN BOSCO,
SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON,
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS,
SAINT JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: From faithful reader LR's ocean house, Rainbow over Sugarloaf Rock at Cape Mendicino on the Lost Coast, Humboldt County, California, not too far north of us, 50ish miles.
© Gertrude Feick 2022
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