Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
A few years back, on a warm Sunday in August, I was sitting in my sister’s backyard following a family barbecue. (It’s good to think of such things in the midst of a harsh winter, and be reminded that the fine weather will come again.) The rest of the family had gone, leaving me, my sister and her husband, and a young couple from next door. During a pause in the conversation, my four-year-old nephew, Matthew, who was sitting on my lap, slowly leaned over to the neighbor – who was very pretty and, let us say, dressed for summer – looked up into her face, and said in the voice of a twenty-year-old, “You have the prettiest blue eyes.” We all laughed, and the young woman said, “Well, thank you, Matthew! But my eyes aren’t blue. They’re green.” And without missing a beat, and in the same adult voice, Matthew replied, “Green is my faaavorite color!”
Augustinian Friends Group
The Lay Augustinians from Philadelphia also made a retreat at the Augustinian house in Ocean City, New Jersey on the weekend of Feb 1-3. Thirteen men and women began their retreat on Friday evening with Evening Prayer and then watched a movie about the life of St. Rita.
Augustine For Today
FEBRUARY 22 – CHAIR OF SAINT PETER
“The medicine for all the wounds of the soul, and the one propitiation for the offenses of men is to believe in Christ … They who believe in him become the children of God; because they are born of God by the grace of adoption, which is by faith in Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Sermon 143.1
This Day in Province History: February 22, 1800
This day in 1800 was declared by the United States Congress a national day of mourning in memory of President George Washington, who had died the previous year. Friar Matthew Carr conducted the services and preached on the occasion at St. Mary’s Church, Philadelphia.
