“Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau . . . So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed! May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.” Genesis 27:21-22, 27-28. Blessed Giorgio Frassati said, “We must sacrifice everything for everything: our ambitions, indeed our entire selves, for the cause of the faith.”

Let us pray, Loving Father, Esau, to satisfy his hunger sold his birthright and thereby his blessing. You uphold this through the treachery of the mother; Jacob ends up receiving Esau’s blessing. Grant Lord that we may ever sacrifice passing bodily or sensual satisfactions that we may never forfeit blessings due to us come from others or from You! Amen. “Let your light shine!!” Be blessed. Larry.