Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest
Intention: For God’s blessing on our labors, that they may bring to us our daily bread and that they always be done with humility, honesty, and justice.
Today’s Gospel | Luke 6:1-5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a Sabbath his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
From the Fifth Meditation for the Time of Retreat | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Ask God today for the grace to watch so well over the children confided to you that you will take every possible precaution to shield them from serious faults.
Ask God to be such good guides for them, through the light that you will procure for yourselves by turning to God and by the fidelity with which you do your work, that you will see clearly every obstacle to the good of their souls and keep away from the path of their salvation everything that could harm them.
This is the principal care you must have for the children entrusted to you. It is the main reason why God has entrusted you with so holy a ministry, and it is on this that God will call you to give a very exact account on the day of judgment.
Prayer
Eternal Father, your Son called us to be faithful to your will not only in words but in deeds. As we make our way through each day, help us to live the spirit of your teachings and the truth of your Kingdom. Make of us sincere disciples who give ourselves fully to you as we walk together in your ways. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.