Mass Readings: 1/31/2025
First:
Resp:
Gospel:
Saint of the Day
St. John Bosco (1815-1888)
John was a priest and teacher who served youth, especially orphaned boys. He'd regularly meet, play and pray with them. He also wrote a number of short tracts explaining the faith to children. Later he founded the Salesians.
St. John Bosco Speaks
Do you want our Lord to give you many graces? Visit him often. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament are powerful and indispensable means of overcoming the attacks of the devil. Make frequent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the devil will be powerless against you.
Scripture Verse of the Day
The Words of St. Escriva
Your Holiness
What crimes are committed in the name of justice!
If you were a dealer in fire-arms and someone offered to buy a gun from you, so that he might use the weapon to kill your mother, would you sell it to him? – Yet, wasn't he ready to pay you a just price for it?
University professor, journalist, politician, diplomat: reflect.
(The Way, #400)
Catholic Catechism #2115
God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
