In the last couple of weeks, we have celebrated the feast days of St Dominic de Calzada and St John de Ortega, two saints who worked and served on the Camino of Santiago pilgrimage route about 1,000 years ago. Today, celebrate another saint connect with the Camino of Santiago - St John of Sahagún, who lived in the 15th century. John was born into a prominent family in the kingomd of León in Spain. He was ordained as a diocesan priest, but later joined the Augustinian order, the same order to which Pope Leo XIV is a member. He was twice elected as prior of the Augustinian monastery in Salamanca in Spain. John was known for his wisdom and his prudence. He used his skills to reconcile feuding families. He championed the rights of laborers. He was a man of prayer who was very devoted to the Eucharist. He reached out to the widow, the orphan, the needy, and the sick with great compassion. The city of Salamanca where he lived, an important university town in Spain, was a very divided city. Due to John's repeated attempts to reconcile the community, the opposing nobles of Salamanca signed a peace treaty in 1476. John died in 1479 and was canonized a saint in 1690.
Like many of the psalms, psalm 27 is attributed to King David. Our psalm today states that even though God invited David to seek him, David sensed that God was hiding from him. But rather than turn away from God in disappointment and anger, David turned to God even more diligently and earnestly. At the end of the psalm, David encourages us to wait for the Lord with courage. Sometimes when we don’t feel the presence of the Lord in our lives, it can be frustrating and lonely. But in all circumstances, we are not to give up in our search for the Lord.
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