What a blessed first week of October, O God, when we celebrate so many great saints like Francis of Assisi today!
We rejoice O God for your gift of St. Francis who taught us to be an instrument of your peace. We rejoice for St. Francis who taught us 600 years ahead of his time the oneness of your creation, the value of nature and environment. We rejoice most especially for St. Francis who witnessed for us simplicity of life based entirely on trust in you.
This, O Lord, is what we ask from you: the grace of complete trust in you like St. Francis and Job in the first reading that no matter what befalls us in this world, may we always trust in you alone, our Vindicator whom our “inmost being is consumed with longing.” (Job 19:25) May we go like the seventy-two other disciples of your Son Jesus Christ into the world with nothing except YOU. AMEN. Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II, Parokya ng San Juan Apostol at Ebanghelista, Gov. F. Halili Ave., Bagbaguin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan 3022.
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