I took this picture of our Chapel last year but it is where I pray for an hour each afternoon and spend another time in the morning before and after our 9:00 Liturgy. I often think of Philippine Duchesne's devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She loved to make night vigils and I marvel that she could pray all night and work all day. Now, let us look at the Sunday Liturgy. We are getting to the end of the Church Liturgical year.
Collect: "Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God, the constant gladness of being devoted to you, for it is full and lasting happiness to serve with constancy the author of all that is good."
First Reading is from the Prophet Malachi 3: 19-20a
"For the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble and that day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of hosts. But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays."
Responsorial Psalm: The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.
The second reading is from Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians 3:7-12
The Gospel is from Luke: 21:5-19
The Gospel is one of doom for the end will come and "nation rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky....."
Next Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of the Liturgical Year!
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