“Despatch wisdom from the holy heavens, send her forth from your throne of glory to help me and to toil with me and teach me what is pleasing to you” (Wis 9:10).
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The threshold of the house of my God
Sal 83:3,4,5-6ª,8a,11
How lovely your dwelling,
O Lord of hosts!
My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and flesh cry out
for the living God. Read More
LOVE GIVES VALUE TO OUR WORK
“A single work done calmly and conscientiously is more valuable than many works done in haste. God is not pleased with the quantity of our work, but with the love with which we work” (St. Francis de Sales).
The Sweet Name of Mary
Isa 61:9-11
A reading for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary
Their race will be famous throughout the nations and their offspring throughout the peoples. All who see them will admit that they are a race whom Yahweh has blessed. I exult for joy in Yahweh, my soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me in garments of salvation, he has wrapped me in a cloak of saving justice, like a bridegroom wearing his garland, like a bride adorned in her jewels. For as the earth sends up its shoots and a garden makes seeds sprout, so Lord Yahweh makes saving justice and praise spring up in the sight of all nations. Read More
Time is short
1 Cor 7:25-31
About people remaining virgin, I have no directions from the Lord, but I give my own opinion as a person who has been granted the Lord’s mercy to be faithful. Well then, because of the stress which is weighing upon us, the right thing seems to be this: it is good for people to stay as they are. If you are joined to a wife, do not seek to be released; if you are freed of a wife, do not look for a wife. However, if you do get married, that is not a sin, and it is not sinful for a virgin to enter upon marriage. Read More
NO LOAD IS TOO HEAVY
“God allows all kinds of difficulties for those who wish to serve Him, but as long as they entrust themselves to Him, He never allows them to succumb under the burden” (St. Francis de Sales).
Anyone who has seriously set out on the path of following Christ will be able to confirm this sentence of St. Francis de Sales. Our Father does not allow us to be tempted beyond our strength (1 Cor 10:13), nor does He allow us to collapse under the weight of the burdens we have to bear on the way to Him. Read More
TO BELIEVE IN THE LOVE OF GOD
“If you kept a record of our sins, Lord,
who could stand their ground?
But with you is forgiveness,
that you may be revered” (Ps 130:3-4). Read More
The saints will judge the world
1 Cor 6:1-11
Is one of you with a complaint against another so brazen as to seek judgement from sinners and not from God’s holy people? Do you not realise that the holy people of God are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent for petty cases? Do you not realise that we shall be the judges of angels? – then quite certainly over matters of this life. But when you have matters of this life to be judged, you bring them before those who are of no account in the Church! Read More
The healing of a man on the Sabbath
Lc 6,6-11
On another sabbath, when Jesus entered the synagogue and taught, a man was there whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. Read More
THE SNARE WAS BROKEN AND WE ESCAPED
“We escaped like a bird from the fowlers’ snare.
The snare was broken and we escaped;
our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.” (Ps 124:7-8) Read More