Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

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

Saints: Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop, Doctor (-367); Saint Kentigern or Mungo (518-603)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 1:23-29

Mass: 1 Sm 4:1-11; Resp Ps 44; Mk 1:40-45

Our bodies are pressed to the earth.

JESUS, DIVINE HEALER,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

We join the leper in today's Gospel and go to Jesus, kneel down and beg Him, "if you wish, you can make me clean" (Mk 1:40). Make the effort. I will do it. Be made clean (Mk 1:41), says the Lord.

I am well aware, almighty God and Father, that in my life I owe you a most particular duty. It is to make every thought and word speak of you ...

Impart to us, then, the meaning of the words of Scripture and the light to understand it, with reverence for the doctrine and confidence in its truth. Grant that we may express what we believe. Through the prophets and apostles we know about you, the God and Father, and the one Lord Jesus Christ. May we have the grace, in the face of heretics who deny you, to honor you as God, who is not alone, and to proclaim this as truth.

(From a sermon on the Trinity by Saint Hilary of Poitiers, bishop, in Office of Readings, January 13)

SAINT HILARY OF POITIERS,

SAINT KENTIGERN,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: This from a faithful reader and friend who took this photo during one of her visits to Redwoods. Thank you, dear LR. 

© Gertrude Feick 2022