We hear how the Lord’s anger rises up against the people of Israel for rejecting him in the middle of the Exodus, how they make a golden calf as an idol to worship instead. The Lord wants to punish the people and save Moses, but Moses intercedes on their before. I think of the saints as interceding on our behalf in a similar manner, in offering their prayers, compassion, and fidelity on our behalf to help us when we have strayed from the path. Many of us Catholics grow to see some of the saints as our friends and our advocates, as those who are helping us when we need that help the most.
Today we celebrate St Matilda. She became Queen of Germany when she married King Henry I in 909. She was widowed in 936. St Matilda was known for her considerable almsgiving and charity. In the final years of her life, she devoted herself to the building of many churches, convents and monasteries. She spent most of the declining years of her life at the convent at Nordhausen in Germany that she had built. She died at the monastery at Quedlinburg on March 14 and was buried there with her late husband, Henry. We unite our prayers with the prayers of St Matilde today and with the entire community of saints.
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