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Tuesday 31 January 2023 Saint John Bosco, Priest  on Tuesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint John Bosco, Priest A photograph of Don Bosco taken in 1880. From a letter by Saint John Bosco, priest I have always laboured out of love First of all, if we wish to appear concerned about the true happiness of our foster children and if we would move them to fulfil their duties, you must never forget that you are taking the place of the parents of these beloved young people. I have always laboured lovingly for them, and carried out my priestly duties with zeal. And the whole Salesian society has done this with me. My sons, in my long experience very often I had to be convinced of this great truth. It is easier to become angry than to restrain oneself, and to threaten a boy than to persuade him. Yes, indeed, it is more fitting to be persistent in punishing our own impatience and pride than to correct the boys. W

Monday 30 January 2023 Monday of week 4 in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Monday of week 4 in Ordinary Time From a treatise on the psalms by Saint Hilary of Poitiers The hearts and minds of all believers were one Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity! It is good and pleasant for brothers to dwell in unity, because when they do so their association creates the assembly of the Church. The term “brothers” describes the bond of affection arising from their singleness of purpose. We read that when the apostles first preached, the chief instruction they gave lay in this saying: The hearts and minds of all believers were one. So it is fitting for the people of God to be brothers under one Father, to be united under one Spirit, to live in harmony under one roof, to be limbs of one body. It is pleasant and good for brothers to dwell in unity. The prophet suggested a comparison for this good and p

My breethren, let us move forward. WE shall face contest. Horizon guideline shall be signal for sunrise in each timezone. In world about words WE own victory does reflect WE own trainer and WE inspire athletes; in our contest, let us fight in good deeds. that on spring February WE shall weave the victory on summer May. WE shall let our athletes run straight race, that WE shall win lines at all eternal contest. WE shall rule resplendent crown to be victory among us. God shall gift presence winning each at precise time among each athlete. Missed estimation shall fall on east continental sunset become orange clocks. revealed Life itself We announce what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have touched with our own hands. Who could touch the Word with his hands. Sunday 29 January 2023 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time From St Ignatius

https://apostolic-counsellor.blogspot.com/2023/01/symphonyharprewritepersonviolin28th.html If you seek the example of love: Greater love , shall be to lay down person in change life for all friends. If you seek an example of obedience, you shall obedient to the Lord God even unto death. All person of good will in whose heart grace is invisibly at work. Shall be in a divine vocation, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being united with this paschal mystery in a way known only to God. Saturday 28 January 2023 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor  on Saturday of week 3 in Ordinary Time Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor Painting by Carlo Crivelli, 1476, from the large 'Demidoff Altarpiece' made for the high altar of San Domenico in Ascoli Piceno, east central Italy, now in the National Gallery, London. From a conference by Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest The Cross exem

Then God took us, although we were pagans. All these things are not mere arguments but genuine signs of God’s love and God’s generosity. Clearly these acts of God deserve to be written down in the next generation, so that they are remembered for ever. Friday 27 January 2023 Friday of week 3 in Ordinary Time  or Saint Angela Merici, Virgin  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Friday of week 3 in Ordinary Time A commentary on Psalm 101 by St John Fisher The wonders of God First of all God freed the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt, with many signs and wonders. Then he let them cross the Red Sea dry-shod; in the desert he fed them with food from heaven in the form of manna and quails; when they were thirsty he gave them an inexhaustible spring of water, bubbling from the rock. He gave them victory over enemies that attacked them; he made the Jordan flow backwards for them; he took the land he had promised them and divided it between them ac