Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

For the Poor Souls in Purgatory

Saints: Pope Saint Clement I (end of the 1st century); Saint Columbanus, Abbot (540?-615); Blessed Miguel Augustine Pro (1891-1927)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 44 Satisfaction by the Excommunicated

Mass: Rev 15:1-4; Resp Ps 98; Lk 21:12-19

He comes to rule the earth.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

OUR LADY OF MONTILGEON,

SAINT GERTRUDE THE GREAT OF HELFTA,

SAINT NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO,

SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL,

PRAY FOR US.

Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God almighty. 

Just and true are your ways, O king of the nations.

(Rev 15:3)

The following from one our saints of the day who encouraged peace and unity, Pope Saint Clement I, the third pope after Saint Peter, should keep us busy. As it turns out, the pontiff's words fit nicely with the Word proclaimed in the Book of Revelation, above, and below.

Beloved, how blessed and wonderful are God's gifts! There is life everlasting, joy in righteousness truth in freedom, faith, confidence, and self-control in holiness. And these are the gifts that we can comprehend; what of all the others that are prepared for those who look to Him. Only the Creator, the Father of all ages, the all-holy, knows their grandeur and their loveliness. And so we should strive to be among those who wait for Him so that we may share in these promised gifts ... It will come about if by our faith our minds remain fixed on God; if we aim at what is pleasing and acceptable to Him, if we accomplish what is in harmony with His faultless will and follow the path of truth, rejecting all injustice, viciousness, covetousness, quarrels, malice and deceit.

(From a letter to the Corinthians by Saint Clement I, pope, in Office of Readings, November 23)

United in faith and prayer, we go forth and join another saint of the day, Blessed Miguel Pro, a Jesuit who has become "the most recognized martyr-priest of the Mexican Cristeros uprising," using his last words Viva Cristo Rey! (The Loop from CatholicVote, November 23, 2022). By your perseverance you will secure your lives (Lk 21:19).

Who will not fear You, Lord, or glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.

(Rev 15:4)

POPE SAINT CLEMENT I,

SAINT COLUMBANUS,

BLESSED MIGUEL AUGUSTINE PRO,

SAINT MARY ELIZABETH HESSELBLAD,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: On the move Monday afternoon, I stopped and looked up. He has done wondrous deeds.

© Gertrude Feick 2022