February 16 - Monday of the 6th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jas.1:1-11; Ps.119:67-68,71-72,75-77; Mk.8:11-13) "Count it pure joy when you are involved in every sort of trial." How well James explicates the wisdom of the cross. First he encourages us to "realize that when [our] faith is tested this makes for endurance," and then to "let endurance come to its perfection so that [we] may be fully mature and lacking in nothing." This is the wisdom of our suffering on earth; this is the blessing of the cross. It is the same wisdom our psalmist propounds when he sings, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes." If the…
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