Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 24 Degrees of Excommunication
Mass: Rm 8:31b-39; Resp Ps 109; Lk 13:31-35
I will speak my thanks earnestly to the Lord, and in the midst of a throng I will praise him.
The passage from Paul's epistle to the Romans begins with a solid question: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Another question comes later: "What will separate us from the love of Christ?" What about "anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword" (all of which come daily in one form or another)? So what about them? "No," writes Paul, "in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loves us." Furthermore, Paul is "convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Whatever comes our way we sing as in the refrain from our opening hymn at Mass: In God is my safety and glory, in God, the rock of my strength. Take refuge in God, all you peoples, trust Him at all times. Pour our your hearts before Him, take refuge in God. Amen.
HELP ME, O LORD, SAVE ME IN YOUR MERCY.
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
© Gertrude Feick 2019
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