Today is Saturday of the 3rd Week of Lent.
We hear about the ancient Roman Station church, Santa Susanna (the U.S.A church in Rome), the Collects in both forms of the Roman Rite, and then have something from Benedict XVI and his predecessor St. Gregory the Great .
From St. Gregory:
One who puts on airs of importance in helping his neighbor commits the inner sin of pride, which wins out in proportion over the merit of the good external work. He remains naked inside while disdaining the naked person whom he clothes, and becomes worse than before by believing himself better than his neighbor in need.
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Does the laity understand that orders which take vows of poverty are frequently extremely poor and need alms? I know several monasteries of nuns where the sisters eat very badly. I know of yet another order where at one time the nuns had to make grass soup to survive.
Unless the laity give, these orders cannot do the work God has given them to do-pray for the laity.
Just a thought after listening to your good meditation today.
I reckon it is no coincidence, given the name of the station church for today, that today’s Lesson in the Mass from the 1962 Roman Missal is the story from Daniel 13 about Susanna, wife of Joachim, who was saved by Daniel from a martyrdom at the hands of unjust lechers who falsely accused her after she refused their advances.
Meant to write on the day you posted . . .
I’m beginning to fear this blog the way a condemned prisoner fears the well-placed lash he knows he knows he deserves. He knows it’s going to hurt but he cannot stay away . . .
Dang, you’re good!