Feast of Saint Mark, evangelist

April 25, 2024

Today’s Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042524.cfm

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Beloved:    
Clothe yourselves with humility
in your dealings with one another, for:

God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.

So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time.
Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:5-7

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In Peter’s inspiring letter, he lovingly mentions his “son” Mark. No doubt Mark has earned this intimate affection by living a life such as Peter describes – one clothed in humility and trust.

Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:

Humility, that grateful self-understanding which recognizes itself as completely dependent on God, opens us for God’s favor, as noted by Peter.

As we grow in that holy knowledge, worries abate and trust upholds us.

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Poetry: Humility- Jessica Powers

Humility is to be still 
under the weathers of God’s will. 
It is to have no hurt surprise 
when morning’s ruddy promise dies, 

when wind and drought destroy, or sweet 
spring rains apostatize in sleet, 
or when the mind and month remark 
a superfluity of dark. 

It is to have no troubled care 
for human weathers anywhere. 
And yet it is to take the good 
with the warm hands of gratitude. 

Humility is to have place 
deep in the secret of God’s face 
where one can know, past all surmise, 
that God’s great will alone is wise, 

where one is loved, where one can trust 
a strength not circumscribed by dust. 
It is to have a place to hide 
when all is hurricane outside.

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Music: Act Justly – Bernadette Farrell