Saint Quote of the Day - Friday - October 02, 2020

Friday - October 02, 2020  

“When people love and recite the Rosary 

they find it makes them better.”

– St. Anthony Mary Claret

      

 

TODAY'S READINGS

Friday of the 26th Week of Ordinary Time

Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

October 2, 2020

 

Reading 1

JB 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5

 

The LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said:

 

Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning

and shown the dawn its place

For taking hold of the ends of the earth,

till the wicked are shaken from its surface?

The earth is changed as is clay by the seal,

and dyed as though it were a garment;

But from the wicked the light is withheld,

and the arm of pride is shattered.

 

Have you entered into the sources of the sea,

or walked about in the depths of the abyss?

Have the gates of death been shown to you,

or have you seen the gates of darkness?

Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all:

Which is the way to the dwelling place of light,

and where is the abode of darkness,

That you may take them to their boundaries

and set them on their homeward paths?

You know, because you were born before them,

and the number of your years is great!

 

Then Job answered the LORD and said:

 

Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you?

I put my hand over my mouth.

Though I have spoken once, I will not do so again;

though twice, I will do so no more.

 

Responsorial Psalm

PS 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14AB

 

R. (24b) Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.

 

O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;

you know when I sit and when I stand;

you understand my thoughts from afar.

My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,

with all my ways you are familiar.

R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.

 

Where can I go from your spirit?

From your presence where can I flee?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I sink to the nether world, you are present there.

R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.

 

If I take the wings of the dawn,

if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

Even there your hand shall guide me,

and your right hand hold me fast.

R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.

 

Truly you have formed my inmost being;

you knit me in my mother’s womb.

I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;

wonderful are your works.

R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way. 

 

Alleluia

PS 103:21 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Bless the LORD, all you angels,

you ministers, who do his will.

R. Alleluia, alleluia. 

 

Gospel

MT 18:1-5, 10

 

The disciples approached Jesus and said,

“Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?”

He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said,

“Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,

you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.

Whoever humbles himself like this child

is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.

And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me.

 

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones,

for I say to you that their angels in heaven

always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.”

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OUR ANGELS SHOW US HOW IMPORTANT WE ARE TO GOD

You are so important to God that he has assigned an angel to you, which you share with no one else, to help you throughout your life. This angel has been fulfilling its responsibilities to you all along, in ways that you can't even imagine.

 

When you've needed more angels, God has given you more, especially if you asked him to send more. One of my routine morning prayers is: "Father God, surround me with holy angels who will help me to know and do Your will today. Surround me with so many holy angels that demons cannot even see me or hear me."

 

Since angels are normally invisible to our eyes, and since we tend to use logic to explain away their interventions, we easily forget about them. In so doing, we underestimate how important we are to God. We worry and fret that he's forgetting about us or that he'll ignore our needs and that disaster will result. Thus, we feel like we're on our own when actually we are not!

 

How much help we receive from our angels depends upon our trust in God. If we don't really understand that we're important enough to God for him to give us angels, we won't understand their role in our lives. We won't understand their desire to be involved with us.

 

What the disciples wanted to know in today's Gospel reading is very familiar to our own thoughts: Are we good enough? Are we very important? We want to feel valued. We want to believe that we're indispensable. But what does Jesus think of this?

 

He raised up the lowliness of little children as an example of what is truly important in the kingdom of God. Toddlers know they are valued when their parents tend to their needs. Do they worry about being indispensable? Only if a brother or sister takes up all of Mama and Daddy's time. When they know they are loved, children know they are important.

 

We, on the other hand, work hard on feeling important. We expend a lot of effort to create an image of ourselves that's better than what we think we are. This puts us into the mindset of trying to find our value in what we do instead of who we are.

 

We are God's children; we were made in the image and likeness of our Daddy-God. As we can deduce from Matthew 18:10, the angels are here to help us be who we are.

 

God doesn't give us guardian angels to help us develop great reputations, because we are already great to God. Only when we cooperate with this - letting the angels minister to the child of God that we truly are - only then can they guide us into doing great things for God. Only then can they guard us from the evil of whatever endangers his plans for us.

 

If we're sincere in repenting from whatever it is that obscures who we really are, then when we look in the mirror we can see the face that our angels see. Try it. Look for the child of God in the mirror. If you're not rejecting the good person that your Daddy-God sees when he looks at you, you will discover how very beautiful you are to him.

 

Today's Prayer

 

Lord, give me mindful eyes to discover Your greatness in the simplicity of what You have given us. Amen.

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God Bless You.....

The Rosary Family

The mother of Jesus promised St. Dominic that, “one day through the rosary & the scapular I shall save the world!”