Thursday 18th November 2021, 33rd Week in Ordinary Time is the feast of St Rose Philippine Duchesne. (1769 - 1852). French. Virgin and Religious. The French Revolution disrupted her religious formation. She waited for 11 years to join a new Congregation: The Society of the Sacred Heart. At the age of 49, St Rose undertook her missionary journey to America. She founded schools to educate girls.
In our key Scripture from Luke 19, Jesus wept over Jerusalem for two reasons:
#1. Jerusalem failed to recognize the time of the visitation of her long awaited Messiah.
#2. Jerusalem thirsted desperately for peace but Jerusalem is totally ignorant of what makes for peace.
These two conditions apply to our world today. As we near the end of the Church Year, we are served more and more with Scriptures of the End Times.
Our saint of today left her native country France at the age of 49 to travel to America. She heard the urgency of the Gospel to educate little girls in America and show them the way of Peace of Christ. The Lord blessed her ministry. 170 years after the death of St Rose Philippine Duchesne, Duchesne Academy continues the work of educating girls in America.
Jesus wept for Jerusalem because they did not recognize what makes for peace. Do we recognize what makes for peace? I like the answer provided in Romans 12: 2 :
"Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect."
Father, in Your will is our peace!
"When nothing is clear, when nothing is foreseeable, it is the moment to make many acts of confidence. You will repeat them as often as necessary and, in them, you will find peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." (IN SINU JESU, The Vigil of October 13th , Anniversary of the Great Miracle of Fatima).
Daily Bible Verse @ Seekfirstcommunity.com
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"Seek first the kingdom of God and
his righteousness, all these things
will be given you besides."
(Matthew 6:33)
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Vicky VuThu, Nov 18 at 8:44 AM– Xa-cha-ri 12:10-14 “…Ta sẽ đổ thần ân điển và nài xin trên nhà Đa-vít và trên cư dân Giê-ru-sa-lem. Chúng sẽ nhìn xem Ta là Đấng chúng đã đâm,..”Chúa Jesus là Người Làm trọn kinh luậtNgài đến không phải để bãi bỏ Luật pháp mà là để làm trọn Luật pháp (Ma-thi-ơ 5:17-20) – để tuân giữ theo một ý nghĩa hoàn hảo. Không có con người nào có thể làm một điều như vậy. Chúa Jesus giữ Luật pháp thay cho chúng ta và sau đó chết thay cho chúng ta.Sau đó Chúa về trời đổ Chúa Thánh Thần là THẦN ÂN SỦNG, VÀ THẦN NÀI XINTRÊN Dân Chúa là bạn và tôi.Bạn và tôi hãy chăm sử dụng ơn Chúa Thánh Thần để cầu nguyện liên lỉCám ơn Chúa Amen.
