As we continue to hear from the letter to the Hebrews today, which we have been hearing from all week at daily Mass, we hear about God’s word, how it should be alive to us, how it should penetrate our lives of faith, how it should be able to touch our hearts and our thoughts. In the second part of today’s reading, we hear how Jesus is our high priest who has passed into the heaven and who now dwells with God. Jesus is not a high priest who is a privileged and remote figure, but having walked with humanity on earth, he can sympathize with our weaknesses, our trials, and our tribulations.
The saint we celebrate today is Margaret of Hungary from the 13th century. The daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary, Margaret lived as a young girl in a convent, with her father fulfilling an oath to God in return for protection from Tartar invaders. Although of noble birth, she lived a very austere life of faith and practiced great charity toward others. She also received mystical visions of Christ. Due to the austerity of her life, she died at the young age of 28 in 1271. She was canonized a saint in 1943 in the midst of Hungary’s occupation in WWII. May we unite our prayers with the prayer of St Margaret of Hungary today.
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