Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
October 20, 2022

Today’s Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102022.cfm

Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy, we are gifted with another magnificently beautiful prayer from Ephesians. Friends, there are times when simply nothing more can be said. 

Let your heart kneel in God’s Presence as you savor this powerful prayer:

I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name,
that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory
to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner self,
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
that you, rooted and grounded in love,
may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to accomplish
far more than all we ask or imagine,
by the power at work within us,
to him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus
to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

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Poetry: God is Today – Jessica Power

God is today. 
He is not yesterday. 
He is not tomorrow. 
God is the dawn, wakening earth to life; 
the first morning ever, 
shining with infinite innocence; a revelation

older than all beginning, younger than youth. 
God is the noon, blinding the eye of the mind 
with the blaze of truth. 
God is the sunset, casting over creation 
a color of glory
as He withdraws into mysteries of light. 

God is today. 
He is not yesterday. 
He is not tomorrow. 
He never is night.

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Music: Dwelling Place- John Foley, SJ