Gospel 10-19-23
Oct 19, 2023. Gospel: Luke 12:32-34. St Peter Alcantara, Confessor.
Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.
Nolite timere pusillus grex, quia complacuit Patri vestro dare vobis regnum.
33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.
Vendite quae possidetis, et date eleemosynam. Facite vobis sacculos, qui non veterascunt, thesaurum non deficientem in caelis : quo fur non appropriat, neque tinea corrumpit.
34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Ubi enim thesaurus vester est, ibi et cor vestrum erit.
St Peter a Spaniard of noble birth entered the Order of St Francis at the age of 16. He re-established the primitive Franciscan rule and gave St Teresa powerful support in her work of reformation. He died A.D. 1562.
