MEMORIAL OF ST. FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI, VIRGIN - 2021

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Through the Good News God called us
to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2TH 2:14

WISDOM 18:14-16,19:6-9 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

In the course of salvation history from the beginning when God laid the foundations of the earth and created human beings, God has been passionately involved in human affairs. Time and time again Scripture tells us how God Himself took us by the hand and led us. We see it in the Garden of Eden when God walked with Adam and Eve, we see it in the Exodus when God, with mighty signs and wonders, led His people from exile to freedom, especially in the crossing of the Red Sea, when God commanded nature to obey His Word and part to make a way for His people to pass through from slavery to freedom in the promised land. 

So we see it definitively in the Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel, God's messenger, invited a young virgin to consent to be the Mother of His Son. At her fiat, the Word leaped from heaven into her womb and the Son of Man and the Son of God was conceived. 

Thank You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for unhesitatingly and always taking us by the hand and walking with us as we poor, weak creatures, stumble and fall as we walk the narrow way leading us to eternal happiness.  

For, to keep your children from all harm,
the whole creation, obedient to your commands,
was once more, and newly, fashioned in its nature.

PSALM 105:2-3,36-37,42-43 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

We are so easily forgetful of all the marvelous ways in which You constantly help us each time we cry out to You. You are a God who saves. Praise and thanksgiving should be always on our lips in all circumstances, for You have the power to draw good even from evil. 

You will not permit the enemy to harm us. You will send Your angels to hem us in and keep us safe. We will always find shelter beneath You. No harm can come to those who are called by Your Name. You will destroy those who seek to bring evil upon us. 

God has only one Word, His Eternal Word, which is You, His Son, 'Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.' We are saved by You, we rejoice in You because our hope of eternal life is You.