Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin
July 14, 2022
Today’s Readings
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071422.cfm
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy, our Alleluia Verse offers us a loving, comforting invitation:
Alleluia, alleluia.
Come to me,
all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Each of today’s readings offers beautiful lines that can be caressed in prayer to deepen our relationship with our Merciful God.
Isaiah’s heartfelt longing for God keeps him alert day and night to God’s Presence:
My soul yearns for you in the night,
Isaiah 26:9
yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you…
And even though times are tough for Isaiah’s community, he expresses a hope born of faith – like morning dew filled with first daylight:
Salvation we have not achieved for the earth,
Isaiah 26: 18-19
the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth.
But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise;
awake and sing, you who lie in the dust.
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the land of shades gives birth.
Our Responsorial Psalm picks up the theme and gives it as a promise to future generations:
Let this be written for the generation to come,
Psalm 102: 19-21
and let God’s future creatures praise the LORD:
“The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven and beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die.
And in our beautiful Gospel, Jesus embodies the promise in his merciful invitation:
Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
Matthew 11: 28-30
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.
Poetry: Dew Drop – Rabindranath Tagore
Through many years,
At great expense,
Journeying through many countries,
I went to see high mountains,
I went to the oceans.Only I had not seen at my very doorstep,
The dew drop glistening
On the ear of the corn.
Music: Zuni Sunrise – Wil Numkena
The Zuni People are Native Americans of New Mexico, USA
A morning prayer to greet the sunrise. Let the sound pray in you without words.
Lavish Mercy 