FEBRUARY 16, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
JESUS, HIS WAY
February 16, 2011
Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Father Scott Reilly, LC
Mark 8:22-26
When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, they brought to
him a blind man and begged him to touch him. Jesus took the blind
man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on
his eyes he laid his hands on him and asked, "Do you see anything?"
Looking up he replied, "I see people looking like trees and … [More]

Saint Gilbert of Sempringham (about 1083 – 4 February 1190) became the only Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the abbot of Citeaux declined his request to assist him in helping a group of women living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148. In turn he founded a monastery of Canons Regular.
Biography
Gilbert was born at Sempringham, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, an Anglo-Norman lord of the manor, who bucked the usual trend of the day and actively prevented … [More]