Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Year of Saint Joseph

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

National Back to School Month

Saints: Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop (283-371); Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868); Saint Peter Faber (1506-1546)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 51 Brothers on a Short Journey

Mass: Nb 11:4b-15; Resp Ps 81; Mt 14:13-21

Sing with joy to God our help.

JESUS, THE MIGHTY GOD,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

Welcome to Monday. There is a slight mist in the air that comes as a welcome and unexpected relief. It is a good day to praise God through word and deed with a few words from Cistercian monk and abbot John of Forde (1140-1244) to keep in mind: "O how lovingly we can expect everything from God when we expect nothing from ourselves! There is nothing I cannot do in Him, knowing as I do there is nothing I can do without Him."

I greatly desire to become a saint, that I may be able to make [others] saints and thus procure the glory of God.

(Saint Peter Julian Eymard)

The universal vocation of creation and human beings is to praise God ... We are representatives of the creation (which cannot speak) in praising God.

(Francis Mahieu, ocso, 1912-2002)

SAINT EUSEBIUS OF VERCELLI, 

SAINT PETER JULIAN EYMARD,

SAINT PETER FABER

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: All you birds of the air, and that includes you little corn bunting, bless the Lord.

© Gertrude Feick 2021

Tuesday of the Third Week of Eastertide

Year of Saint Joseph

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

Other saints: Saints Marcellinus, Vincent, Dominus (-374); Saint Bueno (-640); Saint Agnes of Montepulciano OP (1268-1317)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 64:1-6 The Election of an Abbot

Mass: Acts 7:51-8:1a; Resp Ps 31; Jn 6:30-35

Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your kindness.

JESUS, EXAMPLE OF VIRTUES,

HAVE MERCY ON US.

First, today's entrance antiphon from Mass:

SING PRAISE TO OUR GOD, ALL YOU WHO FEAR GOD, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, FOR SALVATION AND STRENGTH HAVE COME, AND THE POWER OF HIS CHRIST.

ALLELUIA.

Second, something Saint Augustine preached: 

Sing to the Lord a new song. Look, you tell me, I am singing. Yes, indeed; you are singing clearly, I can hear you. But make sure that your life does not contradict your words. Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives ... 

You have heard the words: Sing to the Lord a new song, and you wish to know what praises to sing. The answer is: His praise is in the assembly of the saints; it is in the singers themselves. If you desire to praise Him, then live what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be His praise.

(From a sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop, in Office of Readings, Tuesday, Third Week of Easter)

SAINTS MARCELLINUS, VINCENT, DOMINUS,

SAINT BUENO,

SAINT AGNES OF MONTEPULCIANO,

SAINT STEPHEN,

SAINT AUGUSTINE,

SAINT MONICA,

SAINT JOSEPH,

PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Catherine in Corvallis with shooting stars!

© Gertrude Feick 2021