Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 38 The Reader for the Week 
Mass: Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Resp Ps (Is 38); Mt 12:1-8

Those live whom the Lord protects; yours is the life of my spirit.

I DESIRE MERCY, NOT SACRIFICE.

(Mt 12:7)

There is a poem I came across recently that I have wanted to pass on. Considering today's Gospel, today is the day.

This Gentler Way

by Bonnie Thurston

I am enamored

of early morning's 

slow dawning which

reveals things obscured

by day's full brightness.

The gradual appearance 

of shadowy things

about self and others,

which in harsher light

might involve judgment,

illumined this gentler way

evokes understanding,

mercy's back door that

might open to love.

Today's photo: Garden beauty captured by MG.

© Gertrude Feick 2020