Wednesday, June 11 : Saint Peter Damian

The Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, she warmed him up in her arms, she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and surrounded him with motherly care. It is the same Jesus of which we now receive the body and drink the redeeming blood in the sacrament of the altar. This is what the Catholic Faith professes, this is what the Church teaches faithfully. No human language could glorify well enough the one in who took flesh, as we know, “the mediator between God and human race” (1Tm 2,5). No human praise is fit for the one whose pure womb produced the fruit that is food for our souls, that is the one who testifies by his own words: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever”. And, in fact, we who have been chased away from Paradise because of a fruit, it is also by another type of food that we find the joys of Paradise again. Eve took and ate a food and we were condemned to an eternal fast; Mary gave out another food, and the doors of the heavenly feast were opened to us.

Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team