July 13, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, July 13
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Is 55: 10-11
Ps 65: 10-14
Rom 8: 18-23
Mt 13: 1-23

A terrible enemy that entraps and often dominates in every sphere education, study, initiatives, administrations, etc., is the spirit of self-sufficiency, that leads to proceed according to one's own viewpoint, without consulting or getting advice. It has all its confidence in its own ideas (SP Sep-Dec 1964)

From Father Tom: Evidently some actual resistance to authority--perhaps his own--occasioned this cry of pain from a man who knew what it was to have his plans disrupted (often by the Vatican!) but always bent his will to what he perceived as the will of God. Today things are no different except that those, now old, who showed the spirit of self-sufficiency, may have reason to cry out for God's mercy.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. Cecilia Sciarrone SGBP (1976)--Sr. Imelda Kim SGBP (1990)--Fr. Sandro Clementi IJP (1990)--Sr.  M. Evangelina Cavasin PD (2002)--Sr. M. Gabriella Di Nicola FSP (2004)--Fr. Mario Manca SSP (2009)--Sr. M. Metilde Shindate PD (2010)--Rose Kern (1985).