Mass Readings: 10/15/2024
First:
Resp:
Gospel:
Saint of the Day
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
A Spanish noble, Teresa grew up reading the lives of the saints. She was cured of a crippling disease when she was a child after prayer to St. Joseph. Soon after joining a Carmelite community, she became seriously ill and began having visions. Frustrated by the lack of discipline in her order, she founded her own community with the help of St. John of Avila. She was a mystical writer and was declared a Doctor of the Chuch.
St. Teresa of Avila Speaks
Let nothing trouble you, let nothing make you afraid. All things pass away. God never changes. Patience obtains everything. God alone is enough.
Scripture Verse of the Day
The Words of St. Escriva
Beyond Death
How happy when they die must be those who have lived heroically every minute of their life! I can assure you it is so, because I have seen the joy of those who have prepared themselves for many years, with calm impatience, for this encounter.
(Furrow, #893)
Catholic Catechism #2446
St. John Chrysostom vigorously recalls this: "Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs." "The demands of justice must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to be offered as a gift of charity".