Saturday, August 9, 2025
Happy Saturday, friend! We are so excited to share with you what's coming up this week as we all prepare our hearts by praying with readings for Sunday, the day of rest with our Lord.
Live Liturgically // This Week’s Feast Days
Saturday, August 9 (today) // Optional Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr (also known as Saint Edith Stein)
Sunday, August 10 // Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday, August 11// Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin
Tuesday, August 12 // Optional Memorial of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious
Wednesday, August 13 // Optional Memorial of Saint Pontian, Pope and Martyr, and Saint Hippolytus, Priest and Martyr
Thursday August 14 // Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
Friday, August 15 // Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Letter from the Editor //
Dear Sister,
On this Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we pray along with the psalmist a prayer that is in the hearts of all people of faith: “Our soul waits for the LORD, who is our help and our shield” (Psalm 33:20). But we know from experience that it is hard to wait, and that waiting well is even harder. We see this in the parable Jesus gives in this Sunday’s Gospel about the servants waiting for the return of their master. Jesus tells us that our waiting is not something we do idly, but that we “also must be prepared” (Luke 12:40). The book of Wisdom tells us about the Israelites who waited for deliverance in Egypt, how they had faith in the Lord on the night of Passover, a night which prefigured Christ’s offering as the Lamb of God.
In another prefiguring of Christ, Hebrews tells us that “by faith Abraham obeyed” and was ready to sacrifice his son, and because he acted in faith he received back what he offered to the Lord. Like Abraham and his descendants, we will one day die “in faith,” having received some of the resurrection life we hope in and that we have been promised—but in this vale of tears we only “[see] and [greet] it from afar” (Hebrews 11:13). So, we must live as people of faith, realizing what is hoped for, believing what is not seen—always ready for the coming of the Lord by keeping close to Him through prayer and by receiving the Sacraments. And when the Lord calls us to Himself, He will find us “vigilant” (Luke 12:37).
In Christ’s Love,
Susanna
Read the Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time:
First Reading // Wisdom 18:6-9
Psalm // Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22
Second Reading // Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19
Gospel // Luke 12:32-48
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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