September 26-28, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, September 28

TWENTY-SIXTHY SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Ez 18: 25-28

Ps 125: 4-9

Phl 2: 1-11

Mt 21: 28-32

Doing the will of God makes us brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. But the apostolate makes us fathers and mothers of souls (RdA 193).

From Father Tom:  This seems pretty obvious and hardly requires comment. The only question might be: are we brothers and sisters and I think the answer is “yes;” and are we “fathers and mothers” and here the answer is, I think, hopefully “yes,” but the final answer remains to be given at the Last Judgment.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Sr. M. Lilia Nicola PD (1982)—Fr. Renato Dorio SSP (2001)

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Saturday, September 27

ST VINCENT de PAUL, PRIEST

OF THE DAY

Eccl 11: 9 – 2: 8

Ps 90: 3-6, 12-17

Lk 9: 43-45

There is a close kinship among the Pauline Congregations, because all of them are born of the Tabernacle. There is a single spirit: to live Jesus Christ and to serve the Church. There are those who spread the doctrine of Jesus Christ as from on high; and those who approach individual souls (AD 34).

From Father Tom:  AD? We have referred to this already as “Abundantes Divitiae, “e.g., the summary he wrote in 1954 of the early days of the SSP and the general principles he had followed down the years. In this quote he refers to the Sister Disciples(“those who represent all…before the Tabernacle”), the SSP and FSP (“spread the doctrine”), the SSP and FSP (“approach individual souls”).

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Bro Benedetto Abrate SSP (1941)—Sr. Maddlena Dotta FSP (1978)—Sr. M. Beatrice Sllocco PD (1982)—Sr. M. Patrice Roullard PD (1989)—Sr. M. Irene Vinciguerra PD (1991)—Sr. Anna Delana SGBP (1990)—Sr. M. Celina Mongo FSP (1991)—Sebastiano Corona HFI (2003)—Angela Genova HFI (2010)—Sr. M. Fides Scurti FSP (2011)—George D Hines Jr (1985)—Henry Berlo (1951)

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Friday, September 26

SS COSMAS AND DAMIAN, MARTYR

Eccl 3: 1-11

Ps 144: 1-4

Lk 9: 18-22

Everything flows from the Teacher in the Eucharist as from a life-giving spring. Thus is born of the Tabernacle the P{auline Family, thus she nourishes herself, thus she lives, thus she operates, thus she sanctifies herself. From the Mass, from Communion, from the Eucharistic visit, everything: sanctity and the apostolate (UPS II, 10).

From Father Tom:  USPS II is not the well-known transport company but a collection of the Founder’s talks given in 1960 when he had built the Retreat House in Ariccia and had invited all the pioneer members from the various Nations to a special Retreat in that House. He took the opportunity to go back over the great principles on which his work was founded and this quote is taken from one of them.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Cleric Frnacesco Frizzi SSP (1934)—Fr. Pio Barohi SSP (1945)—Sr. Mardonia Espanol FSP (1990)—Sr. Bruna Battistone FSP (1992)—Jolanda Cecchetti HFI (2007)—Sr. Paolina Eleonora Boldrin SGBP (2007)—Sr. M. Cherubina Fernandez FSP (2008)—S.r Giuliana Ianelli FSP (2009)—Sr. M. Eugenia Baggio PD (2009)—Sr. M. Guadalupe Andrade Reyes PD (2011)