Gospel Reading : Luke 11:27-28 As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” What do the Fathers say? […]
God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am
Gospel Reading : Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of
6 October Gospel Reading : Luke 9:57-62 As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” To another he
5 October From the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska O Jesus, eternal Truth, our Life, I call upon You and I beg Your mercy for poor sinners.O sweetest Heart of my Lord, full of pity and unfathomable mercy, I plead with You for poor sinners.O Most Sacred Heart, Fount of Mercy from which gush
4 OctoberSaint of the day:Saint Francis of Assisi First Reading : Isaiah 5:1-7 Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it
Gospel Reading : Matthew 18:1-5, 10 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them, and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never
“I have always desired to be a saint; but alas! I have always noticed, when comparing myself with the saints, that there is between them and me the same difference that exists between a mountain whose summit is lost in the heavens and the obscure grain of sand trampled underfoot by passers-by. Instead of becoming
“Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven”. “Does one not seem to dwell, already here on earth, in the Kingdom of Heaven when one lives with these texts, when one meditates on them, when one does not know or seek anything else?” …because “ignorance of the Scriptures is
First Reading : Revelation 12:7-12ab Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil
