Augustine For Today
February 1 – Saint Severus
Every work that effects our union with God in a holy fellowship is a true sacrifice; every work, that is, which is referred to that final end, that ultimate good, by which we are able to be in the true sense happy. As a consequence, even that mercy by which aid is given to man is not a sacrifice unless it is done for the sake of God.
City of God, 10, 6
This Day in Province History: February 1, 1940
Prior Provincial, Fr. John Sheehan, proposed that the novitiate farm at New Hamburg no longer be maintained by the novices, but by a layman who would purchase the livestock and equipment “to eliminate the work imposed on the novices to the detriment of their spiritual and mental formation.”
Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time • Year C
In general, there are three sorts of questions we encounter daily. First, there are things that sound like questions, but really aren’t. Second, things that don’t sound like questions, but really are. Third, there are real questions.
For instance, when we walk by someone we know in an office hallway or on campus or at the store, one of us says, “Hi! How are you?” Usually, we don’t want a real answer. If the person we have greeted stops and starts telling us about his recent medical exam, or about her mother in Altoona, generally we aren’t happy about it. It wasn’t a real question.
