Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
I am pretty sure that all parents have, at one time or another, found themselves in the position of trying to get their child to do something difficult or boring or distasteful, and having their child refuse with these words: “You know, I didn’t ask to be born!” The logic of the complaint seems to be that, by not actually requesting birth, the child must now be held to a lower standard of compliance with parental oversight. If children asked to be born, then it would be their own fault that they were here, and they would have to accept the consequences of mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, and studying algebra. But since they didn’t ask to be here, they expect to be cut some slack.
Augustine For Today
SEPTEMBER 6 – SAINT DIONYSIUS
“Your prayer is a conversation with God: when you read God speaks to you, when you pray you speak to God.”
On the Psalms 85, 7
This Day in Province History: September 6, 1896
On this Sunday, in 1896, there began a Solemn Triduum to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of the Province’s first foundation, St. Augustine Church, in Philadelphia. The days of celebration would include the consecration of a new altar by the Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, and a Solemn Mass offered by Archbishop Patrick Ryan of Philadelphia.
