June 7, 2022
Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy, we come back to the shore of Ordinary Time. Fresh off the glorious voyage with Jesus through Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide and Pentecost, we arrive grace-filled for the ordinary days of our lives.
( During this next Liturgical Season, I would like to focus us on our Alleluia Verse each day. This short snippet of scripture serves like a doorman opening the way into our Gospel for the day. It helps us to focus on a truth that might be most meaningful in the sacred Word awaiting us. It alerts us that Jesus wants to speak to us, and it gives us a hint of what He might want to say.
Of course, we do not read the Alleluia Verse in isolation, but rather in the context of the lessons of our first reading and the reinforcements of our daily psalm. But it still might help us to take the small gem of the Alleluia Verse and hold it up to a longer, more reflective light.
For those who wish to meditate further on the readings or Psalm, I will try each day to give you links to earlier reflections on these readings, as you see with the buttons above.)
Today’s verse is an invitation to the light and energy of the Holy Spirit.
It is a call to be like suns and stars in the world’s shadows.
It is a reminder that we are satellites circling God’s Brillance …
that the brightness we reflect is a sprinkling of Divinity…
that no shadow can withstand our “Alleluia ”.
So if we are brave, let’s look in the mirror each morning,
maybe after a cold splash and a sip of coffee
and let’s tell ourselves the amazing truth:
“You are called to be Light in the darkness.”
That darkness takes the form of the obvious evils of our times:
war, violence, hatred, rampant militarism
and all other forms of contempt for another’s life.
But it comes in subtler patterns as well
that may be harder to discern in ourselves.
To name just a few – the infamous “ins” such as:
- Intemperance
- Ingratitude
- Insincerity
- Injustice
- inaction
- and I think, worst of all, Indifference
May we invite and welcome the
“Alleluia Light”
into our every darkness.
Amen.
Poetry: Bearing the Light – Denise Levertov
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning,
embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs;
each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement,
bears the light beneath the rifted clouds -
the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.
Music: Be a Light – Thomas Rhett
Lavish Mercy 
Amen to it all! Loved the song!❤️🙏
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Thanks, dear Lucille!❤️
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No, thank you for the beautiful reflections each. I may not comment everyday, but I love reading and reflecting. You touch my heart! ❤️🙏
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