Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Saints: Saint Ethelbert (c.560-616); Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani (1806-1855); Saint Walburga (-776)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: RB 19 The Discipline of the Psalmody
Mass: James 5:9-12; Resp Ps 103; Mk 10:1-12
The Lord is kind and merciful.
MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,
PRAY FOR US.
We take the words of Saint James to heart: "Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another that you may not be judged" (James 5:9). United in faith and prayer, let us rather support and encourage one another to take personal responsibility for any ways in which we have disturbed peace in our own hearts, and the hearts of the those with whom we live, work, and socialize. Kyrie, eleison. We continue to pray for the people of Ukraine, and for all those who suffer from the effects of war and violence. Make peace your quest and aim (Rule of Saint Benedict, Prologue 17).
PEACE
Quiet yourself.
Reach out with your mind's skillful hand.
Let it go inside of me
and touch
God.
Don't
be shy, dear.
Every aspect of Light we are meant
to know.
The calm hand holds more
than baskets of goods.
from the market.
The calm soul knows more
than anything this world
can offer from her
beautiful
womb.
(From the section on St. John of the Cross, in R. Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voice from the East and West, p. 329)
SAINT ETHELBERT,
BLESSED MARIA ADEODATA PISANI,
SAINT WALBURGA,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's photo: Another one from Monday of this week. I like it. I wonder how old this stump is ... Praise and exalt Him above all forever.
© Gertrude Feick 2022
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