September 28 - Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Job 1:6-22; Ps.17:1-3,6-7; Lk.9:46-50) "Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked I shall go back again." In the beginning and in the end, we have nothing: and so should be our attitude toward all things we are given – that they are not our own, that we do not possess them… that they shall pass from us unto eternity again. As shall we all. In our first reading we begin to hear of Satan's temptation of Job, of whom the Lord's own words witness: "There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil." But Satan in his jealousy responds, "Is it for…
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