Monday 27 August

St Monica

Ps 96; 2 Thessalonians 1-5;11-12;
Matthew 23:13-22

Anger-Peace

In today’s gospel Jesus is angry. There are times when I have been angry. Jesus’s anger was justified. Was mine? Did my anger achieve anything useful?. Thomas à Kempis has a thought about this for us - “Keep yourself at peace first and then you will be able to make others peaceful”