Oct 31, 2022

O God’s holy ones,

His apostles and martyrs,

His virgins and confessors,

all who have borne witness to Him

with your lives,

who have washed your robes

in His blood,

whose hands are clean

in His sight

and so are clothed in white,

all you who have suffered

under the Cross

in the flesh in this world

and so now stand in...

Oct 31, 2022

(Rv.7:2-4,9-14;   Ps.24:1-6;   1Jn.3:1-3;   Mt.5:1-12)

“Everyone who has this hope based on Him

makes himself pure, as He is pure.”

All our readings speak of this purity this holy day.  In the first reading we hear of the saints who “have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”  Our...

Oct 30, 2022

(Phil.2:1-4;   Ps.131:1-3;   Lk.14:12-14) 

“Let all parties think humbly of others as superior to themselves,

each of you looking to others’ interests rather than his own.”

The key to Christianity is to see others, even the blind and the lame and the crippled beggar, as superior to ourselves, and place ourselves...

Oct 29, 2022

(Wis.11:22-12:2;   Ps.145:1-2,8-11,13-14;   2Thes.1:11-2:2;   Lk.19:1-10)

“The Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost.”

How beautifully the readings speak today of our “Lord and lover of souls” whose “imperishable spirit is in all things” and who is “good to all and compassionate to...

Oct 28, 2022

(Phil.1:18-26;   Ps.42:2-3,5;   Lk.14:1,7-11)

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding party,

do not sit in the place of honor

in case some greater dignitary has been invited.”

At the feast of the marriage of Christ to mankind, we are the lesser party, and must act humbly before our God.

Jesus comes among...