November 23, 2015 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Monday, November 23
SR CLEMENT I, POPE, MARTYR
ST COLUMBAN, ABBOT
ORDINARY WEEKDAY
Dn 1: 1-20
(Ps) 3: 52-56
Lk 21: 1-4

For some time deep and peaceful meditation regarding the Last Things had been lacking and this explains a lot. There are still too many words, too many thoughts that do not conform to religion and to things religious (RSP, p. 18)

From Father Tom: Seems to apply to a specific situation but it was never more relevant than in our own time. What sort of Religious have we today? Old men and women who keep on dazedly asking what happened to the roaring fifties and sixties, middle-aged people who are too few to ensure a vibrant apostolate...and a marked absence of younger people. The "Last Things" are truly the last things that concern them.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr. Giuseppe Rongoni (1985)--Emilia Monaldi HFI (2005)--F.r Rosario Esposito SSP (2007)--Sr. Marina De Matos Silveira FSP (2010)--C. Y. Palitz (2000)--Sr. Lucia Dal Corso FSP (2011)