September 26 - Saturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ec.11:9-12:8; Ps.90:1,3-6,12-14,17; Lk.9:43-45) "The dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it." "As a watch of the night" is our life, passing unnoticed while souls slumber. "You make an end of them in their sleep," Psalm 90 prophesies (as we hear the same verses of this same psalm for the second time in three days); indeed man lies unaware of his coming death, ignorant of the day which passes. For though in our youth we "follow the ways of [our] heart, the vision of [our] eyes," and seem to "ward off grief" at will, yet "the next morning [we]…
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