October 1 - Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Neh.2:1-8; Ps.137:1-6; Lk.9:57-62) "How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?" Our home is in heaven. "The foxes have lairs, the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head," the Lord tells him who would follow His way in our gospel today. Our home is in heaven, and only there do we find joy. And only finding our place there should possess our hearts. We have a sign of the devotion we must have for the Lord and His Kingdom in our psalm and first reading. Even as the psalmist hangs up his harp and weeps "by the streams of Babylon" for his exile…
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