Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
This past week I’ve just finished writing an article on the problems facing the board of directors of the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club, you will recall, is a nonprofit organization that has been around for over 100-years with the mission of protecting the environment from harm. Since the late 1990’s there have been many attempts at a hostile takeover of the board by antiimmigration groups. They are the ones who would like to see the Sierra Club embrace an antiimmigration agenda as part of the club’s environmental mission.
So what does the Sierra Club or anti-immigration enthusiasts have to do with the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time? On the surface, nothing, but underneath, the heart of today’s readings.
Justice, both socially and spiritually, is at the heart of today’s readings.
Augustine For Today
SEPTEMBER 27 – SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
“God stretches our desire through delay, stretches our soul through desire, and makes it large enough by stretching it. Let us desire, then, because we have to be filled.”
On the First Letter of John, 4
This Day in Province History: September 27, 1908
Archbishop Patrick Ryan dedicated the basement chapel to serve as the first church of the new Saint Rita’s Parish, Philadelphia, established to care for both Italian and “American” parishioners. Provincial Martin Geraghty celebrated the Mass.
