Oct 19, 2023. Gospel: Luke 12:32-34. St Peter of Alcantara, Confessor.

Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.Nolite timere pusillus grex, quia complacuit Patri vestro dare vobis regnum.  33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.Vendite quae possidetis, et date eleemosynam. Facite vobis sacculos, qui non veterascunt, thesaurum non deficientem in caelis : quo fur non appropriat, neque tinea corrumpit.  34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.Ubi enim thesaurus vester est, ibi et cor vestrum erit. St Peter a Spaniard of noble birth entered the Order of St Francis at the age of 16. He re-established the primitive Franciscan rule and gave St Teresa powerful support in her work of reformation. He died A.D. 1562.