Pope's Intentions
Universal: That refugees, forced by violence to abandon their homes, may find a generous welcome and the protection of their rights.
For Evangelization: That Christians in Oceania may joyfully announce the faith to all the people of that region.
Saturday of the Nineteenth week in Ordinary Time
Commentary of the day
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), founder of the Missionary Sisters of Charity
No Greater Love, p. 63
"Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
The path of loving trust means:
- Having an absolute, unconditional, and unwavering confidence in God our loving Father, even when everything seems to be a total failure.
- Looking to Him alone as our help and protector.
- To stop doubting and being discouraged, “casting all our worries and cares on the Lord” (Ps 54[55],22), and walking in total freedom.
- To be daring and absolutely fearless of any obstacle, knowing that “nothing is impossible to God” (Lk 1,37).
- Having total reliance on our Heavenly Father with the spontaneous abandonment of little children, totally convinced of our utter nothingness but trusting to the point of rashness, with courageous confidence in his fatherly goodness.