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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
FEAST OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Solitude is not always confining

The monk and author Thomas Merton wrote: “There is no true solitude except interior solitude.” Solitude does not have to be a physical place, though it can be, nor does it have to involve silence, though it might. Rather, as Merton said, solitude is an inner space where you can rest quietly and alone in God’s presence—with no expectations and perhaps no words either—and experience the grace of God for what it is: a freely given gift you do not have to earn. Today, a Saturday and the traditional day for remembering Mary, join her in solitude to keep “all these things in your heart.”


TODAY’S READINGS: _1 Kings 3:4-13; Mark 6:30-34 _

“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while. ”


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