January 20, 2016 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Wednesday, January 20

ST FABIAN, POPE, MARTYRORDINARY WEEKDAY

1 Sm 17: 32-51
Ps 144: 1-10
Mk 3: 1-6

Can those who seek shelter in a form of "religious amateurism"--a poverty on the wane, a chastity wedded to comfort and freedom, an obedience that is so personal as to be no more than nominal--can they consider themselves Religious before God and the world? (UPS, IV, 187).

FROM FATHER TOM:  "The old days were better"..and how! What distinguishes many of today's Religious from the laity? Habit? Not always, and anyway anybody can wear a special dress. Poverty? 12 cars for 20 men? (*) Obedience? If it suits the individual. No wonder some groups are dying out.

(*) statistic from AMERICA magazine, Aug 3-10, 2015.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED:  Sr. M. Giuditta Benzo PD (1972)--Sr. Teresa Maria Hernandez FSP (1977)--Sr. Assunta Moyano FSP (1978)--Sr. Panacea Bragliola FSP (1993)--Sr. M. Edilma Franco Quitiaqn FSP (1999)--Fr. Humberto Aguilar SSP (2001)--Fr. Cirilo Penas SSP (2001)--Morena Landini IAM (2015)