Thursday, May 7, 2020

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter

Saint John of Beverley (-721)

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 39-44
Mass: Acts 13:13-25; Resp Ps 89; Jn 13:16-20


For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

MARY, MOTHER MOST AMIABLE,
PRAY FOR US.

I find comfort in two things. First, from today's Communion Antiphon: Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age, alleluia. Jesus is with us all the time, not only some of the time, all the time, during good times and difficult ones. And second, not unrelated are these words: "To God, the darkest depths of the human heart are as clear as the page of a book lying open in the sunlight. He knows us through and through-and loves us as deeply as he knows us! Rather than hide from him, let us put our life in the hands that fashioned us and allow him to lead us in the path of life eternal in the wake of Christ the Lord" (Magnificat, Prayer for the Morning, May 7, 2020).

We call on the Name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.

O SEARCH ME, GOD, AND KNOW MY HEART.
O TEST ME AND KNOW MY THOUGHTS.
SEE THAT I FOLLOW NOT THE WRONG PATH
AND LEAD ME IN THE PATH OF LIFE ETERNAL.
(Ps 139: 23-24)

We pray with the Holy Father:

I would like to ask the Lord to bless artists because it is through them that we understand beauty, and without beauty we cannot understand the Gospel. It is artists who often interpret this silent groan which weighs on every creature and is expressed above all in the heart of men and women, for "man is a beggar before God". 

SAINT JOHN OF BEVERLEY,
PRAY FOR US.

Today's photo: Dogwood detail.

© Gertrude Feick 2020

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