July 19, 2019

Friday of the 15th week in ordinary time

Jesus’ telling the Pharisees in today’s Gospel, “I desire mercy not sacrifice,” reminds me of a wonderful story from Sister Jessica Powers, a Carmelite nun from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who is famous for her books of spiritual poetry. In the late 1930s Jessica Powers lived in New York City. She recalls how she sat on a

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