Week 23 of Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Today’s verse

About today

Peter Claver (1580–1654), a Jesuit from Spain, spent decades at Cartagena meeting slave ships. He went into the holds with food, medicine, and baptism, calling himself “slave of the slaves forever.” The United States keeps his obligatory memorial on 9 September, a day of examination for a Church that has lived near that sin. Ask today for a Church that will not look away from those treated as cargo, and for a love willing to go down into the hold.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Scripture

Sequential New Testament

Colossians 3:12–17

Therefore, clothe yourselves like the elect of God: holy and beloved, with hearts of mercy, kindness, humility, modesty, and patience. Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do. And above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ lift up your hearts. For in this peace, you have been called, as one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts. Let everything whatsoever that you do, whether in word or in deed, be done all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Sequential New Testament

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