October 10 - Friday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Jl.1:13-15,2:1-2; Ps.9:2-3,6,8-9,16; Lk.11:15-26) "It is near, a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and somberness!" And we must be prepared. We must rend our hearts and not our garments. We must "spend the night in sackcloth," repentant of our sins. We must "proclaim a fast" and "cry to the Lord," "for near is the day of the Lord." The prophet Joel sounds this alarm several hundred years before Christ, and in truth it proclaims the coming of Christ. For it is His coming that separates the wicked from the just; it is He who "judges the world with justice" – it is by Him the names…
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