Our psalm today declares: “The
salvation of the just comes from the Lord.”
It goes on to say that we should commit our way to the Lord, to trust in
him and he will act. According to the
psalmist: The Lord “will make justice dawn for you like the light; bright as
the noonday shall be your vindication.”
However, we all know that life does not always work out that way. Sometime we are faced with detours and
roadblocks in our lives that can be very devastating. Trusting in the Lord and trying to follow his
path does not always mean that everything in life is always going to wonderful
and rosy.
I really enjoy learning about the
saints and learning from their journeys of faith. The saints are great witnesses for us and
have much to teach us. This week, one of
the saints on our calendar is Blessed Dina Belanger, a young woman who was born
in Quebec, Canada in 1897. Dina was a
gifted musician and pianist as a child and youth, having studied the piano as a
young woman in New York. Yet, she felt
God calling her to serve with joy as a religious sister of the Congregation of
Jesus & Mary in Canada, where she taught music. From the devout examples of her parents, who
spent a great deal of time caring for the sick of their community as a
ministry. Dina declared at a young age: “I want to be a saint.” A mystic who saw great joy in her union with
God through her devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, Blessed Dina died at the
young at of 32. This is the message she
received from Christ that brought her great joy: “My happiness is to reproduce
Myself in the souls that I created through love. The more a soul allows me to
reproduce Myself truly in itself, the more happiness and repose I feel in it.
The greatest joy a soul can give Me is to let Me raise it to the Divinity. Yes,
My little spouse, I feel an immense pleasure in transforming a soul into
Myself, in deifying it, in absorbing it entirely in the Divinity.”
When we face struggles and
frustrations in life, the examples of faith we have in our lives give us
encouragement and strength. May the
prayers and intercessions of all the saints give us strength on our
journey. May we rejoice in the salvation
we receive in the Lord.
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