August 23, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Saturday, August 23
ST ROSE OF LIMA, VIRGIN
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Ez 43: 1-7
Ps 85: 9-14
Mt 23: 1-12

It is good to have trust in the Lord: that trust will never be disappointed! But it must be based on very sincere humility and mistrust of ourselves. I know that you are good for nothing; but I would not like that you believed yourselves to be good for something: this I would fear, and fear, and will fear (Letter to the first Pauline missionaries leaving for Brazil, 4 August 1931)

From Father Tom: More basic advice from the Founder to the first missionaries to Brazil. The language is not very comforting but neither was the task they set themselves. When I was in Alba I met then Superior, Fr. Trosso, who had been like all other young men drafted into the Italian Army in 1918 and became or could have become an Officer in the Forces, but renounced this in favor of serving the Master in the SSP. He was in that group the Founder is writing to.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Furnari PD (1954)--Sr. M. Spiritina Marzullo PD PD (1987)--Sr. M. Carola Toniutti FSP (1995)--Fr. Bruno Gialletti SSP (1997)--Sr. M. Fausta Pasini FSP (2006)-Sr. M. Matelda Zuin PD (2009)--Fr. Valeriano Mario Giachino SSP (2011)--Sr. M. Letizia Ellena FSP (2011)