August 20, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, August 20
ST BERNARD, ABBOT, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
OF THE DAY
Ez 34: 1-11
Ps 23: 1-6
Mt 20: 1-16

On 20 August 1914, with an hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and the blessing of the small printing press, the Pauline Family started under the title "Typographical School of the Little Worker." The preparation had been long, waiting so that in the light of God everything might become clear and become concrete, and divine Providence would set out the means (SP Jul-Aug 1954)

From Father Tom: One would think that this key date would be celebrated every year with songs of thankfulness and praise. Actually, at least when I was a seminarian, most of the members in Rome had not yet returned from vacation so the celebration in that context was low-key. Perhaps we had all grown a bit too sure of ourselves: Famiglia Christiana with its 1,700,000 copies, 100+ seminarians in our International College, vast numbers of young candidates, an endless stream of new books, etc. It was easy to think that there is nowhere to go but up. But there was and we can learn a lesson from those times.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Msgr. Nicola Riezzo IJP (1998)--Fr. Giuseppe Gori SSP (2006)--Fr. Lorenzo Viberti SSP (2006)--Fr. Joao Guido Dos Santos SSP (2008)--Epeginia Jamais (1976)--Joseph Russell (1992)