Feast day of St Phoebe (also) today

See comments in Today’s Homily Resource (above).

Colleen Gibson’s article from the Global Sisters Report:

… Phoebe appears in Paul’s letter to the Romans, in which he exhorts the Romans: “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae.” Paul writes, “I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me” (Romans 16:1-2).

https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/befriending-phoebe-co-worker-kingdom

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