Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Intention: For the gifts of integrity, dedication, and compassion for all who serve as educators, formators, and caretakers of the young.
Today’s Gospel | Luke 10:13-16
Jesus said to them, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
From the Meditation on Saint Bruno | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Prayer draws down the grace of God and keeps temptation away; it is also by prayer that God becomes our strength against the devil. You need to use all these means to be strengthened in your state, because left to yourself, you are nothing but weakness. So take care not to neglect prayer, which is so necessary to maintain you in piety and to grow in it.
Prayer
Eternal Father, we are a people who are born to have faith, but sometimes we fail to understand this. We come to think that fulfillment comes from our own designs and self-interest. Fill us with the zeal to seek your truth, the grace to recognize your truth, and the integrity to live your truth. Above all, make of us true disciples who strive to be ambassadors of your saving presence to one another, especially to those who are most in need of you. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.