20 October 2018
Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time
In the 1st reading of today’s mass, St. Paul prays that we be given the grace the know God the Father. Elsewhere Jesus tells us that the Son alone knows the Father, and “those who know me know the Father.”
Then there is divine filiation that comes about when we are baptized and. with Jesus, the true Son of the Father and the head of the Church, when we become the adopted children of the Father, and participate in the life of the Trinity.
Today is Saturday, the day we regularly honor the Blessed Virgin, who was wedded to the Spirit, chosen by the Father to be the mother of the Son, made incarnate.
Today we pray to Mary that like her, we may know and do the will of the Father, to make Jesus present to others and to give ourselves totally to the working of the Holy Spirit, who gathers us and unites us into the Body of Christ, the Church.