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Mother of God and of the poor, help of the defenseless, intercede for those of us who are unaware of our own poverty, so that we may see and respond to those who live their poverty daily, and thus find a remedy for our own blindness and illusions of self-sufficiency.

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Madre de Dios y de los pobres, socorro de los desamparados, intercede por quienes desconocemos nuestra propia pobreza para que podamos ver y responder a los que viven su pobreza a diario, y así encontrar un remedio para nuestras propias cegueras, e ilusiones de autosuficiencia.

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Él era incomprensible e inaccesible, invisible, y de toda forma impensable; pero ahora ha querido ser comprendido, ser visto, y ha querido ser pensable.

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He was incomprehensible and inaccessible, invisible, and in every way unthinkable; but now he has wanted to be understood, to be seen, and he has wanted to be thinkable.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

St Bernard today in the Roman Office (Sermo de Aquæductu): Incomprehensíbilis erat et inaccessíbilis, invisíbilis et inexcogitábilis omníno; nunc vero comprehéndi vóluit, vidéri vóluit, vóluit cogitári.

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View of St Peter’s Basílica from the roof-top of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

María, Madre de gracia, Madre de misericordia, defíéndenos del enemigo. En la Vida y en la muerte ampáranos gran señora.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The two questions are intrinsically related.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In terms of what decisively impacts our salvation, the question Jesus poses to the scholar of the law, “Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim? (Lk 10,36), is as important as the question he poses to the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”

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Dios del universo, vuélvete: mira desde el cielo, fíjate, ven a visitar tu viña. Cuida la cepa que tu diestra plantó,

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Ps 80,15-16 Deus virtútum, convértere; réspice de cælo et vide, et vísita víneam istam. Et prótege eam quam plantávit déxtera tua, God of hosts, turn again, we implore, look down from heaven and see. Visit this vine and protect it, the vine your right hand has planted.

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Ps 145,9 Suávis Dóminus univérsis, et miseratiónes eius super ómnia ópera eius. la bonté du Seigneur est pour tous, sa tendresse, pour toutes ses œuvres. el Señor es bueno con todos, es cariñoso con todas sus criaturas. How good is the LORD to all, compassionate to all his creatures.

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Con más santidad que todos los otros El octavo día y siglo [último y primero] resplandece El cual tú, oh Jesús, consagras para ti, primicias de los resucitados.

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Buona domenica Office Hymn (XIII Century): Dies ætásque céteris octáva splendet sánctior in te quam, Iesu, cónsecras, primítiæ surgéntium. «With more holiness than all the others The eighth day and age shines [forth] Which you, O Jesus, the first fruits of the risen, Consecrate to yourself.»

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‪This is, in some ways, the prayer we do not dare to ask, yet at the Church’s bidding, we can and we must.‬

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Dios todopoderoso y eterno, que con amor generoso sobrepasas los méritos y los deseos de los que te suplican, derrama sobre nosotros tu misericordia perdonando lo que inquieta nuestra conciencia y concediéndonos aun aquello que no nos atrevemos a pedir.

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Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask.

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Collect 27th Sunday: Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui abundántia pietátis tuæ et mérita súpplicum excédis et vota, effúnde super nos misericórdiam tuam, ut dimíttas quæ consciéntia métuit et adícias quod orátio non præsúmit. Per Dóminum.

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But such service among men ought to be freely given; and he who acts in this way ought to submit himself to all and, like a debtor who owes interest, serve his brethren.

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Esta servicialidad hacia los hombres debe ser gratuita, y el que se porta de tal manera debe someterse a todos y servir a los hermanos como si fuera deudor que debe intereses.

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St Gregory of Nyssa in the Roman Office today (De Institúto christiáno, PG 46) Verum eiúsmodi servitútem apud hómines gratuítam esse opórtet, et qui talis est, ómnibus debet súbici, ac véluti usúræ débitor frátribus inservíre.

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Ps 136,16 Qui tradúxit pópulum suum per desértum, quóniam in ætérnum misericórdia eius. Guió por el desierto a su pueblo: porque es eterna su misericordia. Through the desert his people he led, for his mercy endures forever. Lui qui mena son peuple au désert, éternel est son amour.

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The human mind can reason to the existence and nature of something it cannot see. In physics this would include things like gravity. In metaphysics it includes things like the immaterial intellectual soul. If you deny the latter, you have no basis to sustain the former.

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The common good includes protecting the stability of family life, for by it the community is sustained on a most basic level; thus deportation policies that indiscriminately and brutally disrupt family life undermine the good of human society. The law itself should take this into account.

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Nevertheless, though we are so little, and the road ahead so great, and not only so great, but also so dangerous, why should we fear under such great guardians?

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Sin embargo, aunque seamos tan pequeños y el camino que tenemos por delante tan largo, y no solo largo, sino también tan peligroso, ¿por qué habríamos de temer bajo tan grandes guardianes?

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St Bernard today on the Guardian Angels: Céterum, etsi tam párvuli sumus, et tam magna nobis, et nec modo tam magna, sed et tam periculósa via restat, quid tamen sub tantis custódibus timeámus?

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