Saturday, October 4, 2025
Letter from the Editor //
Dear Sister,
On the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Psalmist calls us to listen for the Lord’s voice “[f]or he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds” (Psalm 95:7). We are reminded to worship and “kneel before the LORD who made us” (Psalm 95:6). As creatures, dependent on God, worship and obedience are the response which we are meant to give to our Creator and Savior. In the Gospel, Jesus talks about those who faithfully serve God as “unprofitable servants” (Luke 17:10), but if we look deeper into the story of our salvation we know that we have been gifted with His friendship as well. He has given us everything out of His deep love for us, and simply asks for us to give everything we have in return. Saint Paul tells us that grace is abounding in our daily lives so that we can in every moment “bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God” (2 Timothy 1:8).
Sister, we are living in the promise—God is present in the world and is bringing about the salvation He promised through the prophet Habakkuk in the First Reading. But He also has promises for us, that this salvation will come to fruition in our lives today. You may be waiting for fulfillment now, of a hope not yet realized. The Lord’s perfect timing is not our own;, He wants us to make an act of increased faith and reminds us, that whatever we are waiting for, “if it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late” (Habakkuk 2:3).
In Christ’s Love,
Susanna
Read the Readings for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time:
First Reading // Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4
Psalm // Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
Second Reading // 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14
Gospel // Luke 17:5-10
Live Liturgically // This Week’s Feast Days
Saturday, October 4 (today!) // Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi //
Sunday, October 5 // Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday, October 6 // Optional Memorial of Saint Bruno, Priest // Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States]
Tuesday, October 7 // Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
Wednesday, October 8 // Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Thursday, October 9 // Optional Memorial of Saint Denis, Bishop and Martyr, and his Companions, Martyrs // Optional Memorial of Saint John Leonardi, Priest
Friday, October 10 // Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Susanna Spencer holds a master's in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and is the Devotions Editor for Blessed is She. She is a freelance writer and editor and a teacher-in-training living with her philosopher husband and four kids in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She loves reading theology, attending beautiful liturgies, cooking delicious food, and casually following baseball. She is the author of the Gospel Studies including Seek His Kingdom: A Meditation on Matthew , Listen to Him: A Meditation on Mark, and Abide in His Love: A Meditation on John. She was narrator for Found: Advent With the Good Shepherd and Rescued: Lent With the Lamb of God and a contributing author and editor for our children’s devotional prayer book, Rise Up. She was the Theological Editor of the Blessed Conversations Studies. Find out more about her here.
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