Today is the canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman. He was a prolific writer, an intellectual whose heart very much balanced who he was, what he preached and what he wrote. I will share multiple quotes to support this statement!

To begin: “God has created me to do Him some definite service. God has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.”  

Monday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day:
RB: Ch 41 The Times for Community Meals
Mass: Rev 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Resp Ps 1; Lk 18:35-43

To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.

Readings of the day: RB 2:30-32Mass: Ac 20:17-27; Resp Ps 68; Jn 17:1-11a
The above image is by The Catholic Worker artist Ade Bethune.
If only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus,to bear witness to the Gospel of God

Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor (1033-1109) St Anselm of Canterbury

Readings of the day: RB 64:7-22Mass: Ac 9:31-42; Resp Ps 116; Jn 6:60-69
THEY TURNED TO THE LORD.MANY CAME TO BELIEVE IN THE LORD.
O God, let me know you and love you so that I may

Readings of the day: RB 7:34Mass: 2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17; Resp. Psalm 32; Mark 6:1-6

Saint John Bosco Today I remember a former student, now friend and ordained