Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

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

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship Him (Mt 2:2)

Saints: Saint Wulstan (1008?-1095); Saint Faolan (8th century); The Jesuit Martyrs of the Reformation in Europe; Blessed Andrew of Peschiera, OP

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 4:22-43 The Tools for Good Works

Mass: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; Resp Ps 144; Mk 3:1-6

My refuge and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer.

PLACE YOUR HOPE IN GOD ALONE.

(RB 4:41)

With Saint Benedict's tool for good works above in mind, I think about the man in today's Gospel with the withered hand. He surely wanted to be healed. Jesus is in town; He is our hope. Stretch out your hand (Mk 3:5).

The one who hopes lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of new life.

(Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, 2)

SAINT WULSTAN,

SAINT FAOLAN,

THE JESUIT MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE,

BLESSED ANDREW OF PESCHIERA,

BLESSED MARIA GABRIELLA SAGHEDDU,

PRAY FOR US.

NB. Friendly reminder that during this week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we will invoke Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu (d. 1939), a Cistercian nun of our Order, who offered her life to the cause of Christian unity. Before her death, she prayed, "Lord Jesus, I love you, and I would like to love you very much, to love you for the whole world." I had the privilege of visiting her shrine at the Cistercian monastery at Vitorchiano in Italy.

Today's photo: One last look at Yosemite National Park, here Yosemite Valley.

© Gertrude Feick 2022