Thursday July 26, 2001 Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading (Sirach 44:1, 10-15) Gospel (St. Matthew 13:16-17) As we celebrate today the feast of Saints Joachim and Ann, we see the critical importance of the role of parents because these are the people that God raised up to bring Our Lady into the world, to raise her, to teach her, and to prepare her soul so that she would be able to be the Mother of God. They did not know, when they were raising her, that she was going to be the mother of the Messiah; yet, at the...
