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Saturday • September 26, 2020
MEMORIAL OF COSMAS AND DAMIAN, MARTYRS
Saints for this season
Today’s brother physicians are patron saints to a long list of healthcare workers, and also against plagues. A brief year ago, biblical references to plagues and epidemics seemed quaint and far removed. Our eyes have been opened to the enduring force of such outbreaks, however, and Cosmas and Damian truly become saints for our time. Perhaps even more so when we learn they were Arab physicians from the area now called Syria. Healing role models come from all backgrounds. Thank the frontline healthcare workers in your own town. They are likely from diverse backgrounds as well.
Today's readings: Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:8; Luke 9:43b-45
“Fill us at daybreak with your kindness.” #takefiveforfaith
Twin brothers, Saints Cosmas and Damian were born in Arabia. Eminent for their practice of medicine and reputation for giving free medical care. The practice of charity and service to their neighbor exemplified that it is possible to live the gospel, especially Matthew 25.
Season of Creation Day 26:
Take a moment to reflect on the photo.
“Remind me in countless ways, as I walk the sunlit hours of this day, that I am on a sacred journey. Grant me the grace to look with respect upon all I will meet this day and upon every event I encounter. Mindful that I am a pilgrim, may I treat each and every one with reverence and love, as a manifestation of you to whom I journey. May the work of my hands be part of the redemption of the world and its eternal springtime liberation.”
- Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim by Edward Hays
The English word “Mass” comes from the Latin word missa, which means to be “sent.” Sent, into the world, with the mission of Christ.
What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children?
— Laudato Si', Pope Francis
Which of your five senses brings you the most gratitude for creation?
pause | reflect | act
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young
and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart,
the vision of your eyes;
Yet understand that as regards all this
God will bring you to judgment.
Ward off grief from your heart
and put away trouble from your presence,
though the dawn of youth is fleeting.
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth...
Ecclesiastes 11:9
#dailyingodsword
For the sake of his sorrowful passion,
Have mercy on us and on the whole world.
#saturdayswithmary #PrayTheRosary #prayfortheworld #motherofmercy
#Repost @franciscus
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Either we do it together, or it won’t work. Or we work together to emerge from the crisis, all levels of society, or we will never emerge from it. It does not work that way. To emerge from the crisis does not mean to varnish over current situations so that they might appear more just. No. To emerge from the crisis means to change, and true change to which every contributes, all the persons that form a people. All the professions, all of them. And everything together, everyone in the community. If everyone is not contributing the result will be negative.
It takes all of us.
We are bound together by grace, by faith, by baptism, by Christ. This being apart is hard. We miss the easy fellowship, the closeness shared in praying and singing and serving together. Let’s take good care of one another. And let’s remember what we are about. We are the CHURCH.
If you are coming to mass, please wear a properly placed mask (covering nose, mouth, & chin) at all times and keep 6 feet social distance. As we continue to progress toward safely resuming areas of ministry in the parish, this is essential.
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God bless and keep you all.
“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26
Season of Creation Day 25:
To love the world
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that.
— Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy
Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change.
— Laudato Si', Pope Francis
Consider what you can do in making a change that brings more healing love to the world. And do it.
pause | reflect | act
Gospel Luke 9:18-22
Once when Jesus was praying in solitude,
and the disciples were with him,
he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
They said in reply, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah;
still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’”
Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.”
He rebuked them and directed them not to tell this to anyone.
He said, “The Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
#dailyingodsword
Season of Creation Day 24: Protecting God's Handiwork
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. The winds tell the story, literally. Everything tells the story of the Universe. What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return.
— Thomas Berry (1914-2009), eco-theologian
The ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion…Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.
— Laudato Sí, Pope Francis
Come up with a six word statement that responds to the Season of Creation.
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