August 9, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and with Father Toom

Saturday, August 9
ST TERESA BENEDICTA of the CROSS, VIRGIN, MARTYR
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
OF THE DAY

Hb 1: 12-2: 4
Ps 9: 8-13
Mt 17: 14-20

In the Pauline Family there are many occasions for cooperation in the spirit, in vocations and in the apostolates. The good to be done is so much, the world is vast. What is not done must cause us pain. We must go forward every day, in sanctity and in the apostolate (SP Apr 1956)

From Father Tom: "Many occasions of cooperation." If my memory serves me properly, this was perhaps the principle taught by the Founder, but the practice in the earlier days left something to be desired--an exaggerated sense of the importance of one Congregation as compared to another and even one House compared to another in the same Congregation. We are not, thankfully, past that stage, coming together like bes protecting themselves from the cold.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr M. Tecla Bassi (1983)--Sr. M. Ester Merleri FSP (2001)--Sr. Leus Abuda FSP (2007)--Sr. Camilla de Simoni FSP (2007)--Sr. Marta Gbrielli SGBP (2010)