Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint: Saint Alphonsus Mary de'Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Patron of Confessors and Moralists (1696-1787)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 50 Brothers Working at a Distance or Traveling

Mass: Jeremiah 28:1-17; Resp Ps 118; Mt 14:13-21

I ponder your will.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

PRAY FOR US.

You are the light of the world ... 

your light must shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven.

(Mt 5:14, 16)

Welcome to Monday and the first day of August 2022. The summer marches on. 

To commemorate our saint of the day, Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Patron of Confessors and Moralists, and to pray for all Redemptorists, confessors and moral theologians, we go forth with the following prayer from Pope Saint John Paul II in his Encyclical Letter on the Church's Moral Teaching Veritatis Splendor:

O Mary,

Mother of Mercy,

watch over all people,

that the Cross of Christ

may not be emptied of its power,

that man may not stray

from the path of good

or become blind to sin,

but may put his hope ever more fully in God

who is "rich in mercy".

May he carry out the good works prepared

by God beforehand 

and so live completely

"for the praise of His glory".

SAINT ALPHONSUS MARY LIGUORI,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Feeling a bit sluggish? Be inspired by this banana slug going full speed ahead.  

© Gertrude Feick 2022