Kenn Jervic SVD

St. Mother Theresa. She said, “If I wasn’t able to discover Jesus hidden under the disguise of bread, I wouldn’t be able to find Him in the distressing disguise of the poor.” Let’s pray for this grace - that if we’re able to say “Amen”, “I believe,” to Jesus hidden in the Blessed Sacrament today, may He also give us the grace to see him this week in the person who is waiting for our help. A person whose name we may already know. A person we may have passed by in silence so many times before. A person who is made in the image and likeness of God. A brother, a sister, a neighbor. Another self.

✍️Rev. Peter Stamm,📷The Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, Workshop of Domenico Fetti. Public Domain.

"Dear friends, Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces. They encourage us with their words: "Not I, but God," as Carlo used to say. And Pier Giorgio: "If you have God at the center of all your actions, then you will reach the end." This is the simple but winning formula of their holiness. It is also the type of witness we are called to follow, in order to enjoy life to the full and meet the Lord in the feast of heaven."
Excerpt of Homily of Leo XIV
07 September 25
Canonization of Sts. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis