Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

October 13, 2020

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Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy, we pray with Psalm 119 whose refrain is beautiful to the ears of those who love Mercy.

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We can invite Mercy in many ways.

One way is to ask Mercy to heal the fractured circumstances of our lives – the outside of the cup, if we would borrow an image from today’s Gospel:

• to strengthen us against any pain or fear in our own lives
• to deliver us and those we love from all that overwhelms
• to forgive our inexcusable retreats into selfishness
• to repair that which seems irrevocably broken 

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But another, deeper way is to invite Mercy to the inside of our “cup”:

• to indwell our hearts
• to transform, within us, the place where we encounter life
• to inspire us to respond always with the heart of Jesus
• to flow from us in continual witness to God’s Mercy

Today, in our prayer, let’s spend some time with Mercy, the most beautiful Face of God.

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Poem:  Blest are the undefiled in heart (Psalm 119)
by Isaac Watts – (1674 – 1748) was an English Christian minister (Congregational), hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. He is recognized as the “Godfather of English Hymnody”; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages.

Blest are the undefiled in heart,
whose ways are right and clean;
who never from your law depart,
but flee from every sin.

Blest are the ones that keep your word,
and serve you with their hands;
with their whole heart they seek you, Lord,
obeying your commands.

Great is their peace who love your law;
how firm their souls abide!
Nor can a bold temptation draw
their steady feet aside.

Then shall my heart have inward joy!
I’ll keep my steps from shame;
your statutes help me to obey,
and glorify your name.

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Music- Sanctuary by Secret Garden