Let us rejoice in the Lord, with songs let us praise him.
47. Today’s 🚵♀️ pilgrimage question for contemplation: “Am I seeking ‘wisdom’ that does not demand ‘an encounter with reality'”???
Such a desire often puts on a mask of justice, for where there is no concern for conscience, untruthful reputation gives pleasure. The result is that concealed injustice enjoys a false reputation.
From a sermon of Saint Leo the Great, pope
CHAPTER ONE
DARK CLOUDS OVER A CLOSED WORLD
THE ILLUSION OF COMMUNICATION
Information without wisdom
sometimes i place myself in a “direct encounter” with just the “fringes of reality”, (archbishop vigano’s letter to president trump) and even this has proven “intolerable”…
it’s at these times a “mechanism of selection then comes into play, whereby i can immediately separate likes from dislikes, what i consider attractive from what i deem distasteful” and “in the same way,” i “choose the people with whom” i “wish to share” my “world”…
in the end, “Persons or situations” i “find unpleasant or disagreeable are simply deleted in today’s virtual networks (facebook, twitter); a virtual circle is then created, isolating” me “from the real world in which” i am “living”…
On this pilgrimage I pray to become a Catholic who learns to sing the hymn of “True Wisdom” , which teaches me to desire not what is vain, as I stay awake to the fact that “Today, however, everything can be created, disguised and altered” to make it look like one is putting in more than all the rest!!!
What a glorious day it was.
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek, A Reflection on Christian Life, August 28, 2019
Hymn of the Day in honor of “this poor widow” in Today’s Gospel
Today’s Scriptures
…No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand…
RV 14:3
R. (see 6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
…who desires not what is vain.
Ps 24:4
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Stay awake!
For you do not know when the Son of Man will come.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Mt 24: 42a, 44
“…this poor widow put in more than all the rest;”
LK 21:3
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