Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
September 4, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090424.cfm
The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor
Luke 4:18
and to proclaim liberty to captives.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus zealously launches his universal ministry. He has been rejected in his hometown of Nazareth and revered in Capernaum. Now he readies himself to break in a redeeming tide over all the nations. His ministry promises waves of joy to those who are poor and liberty to those held captive.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
Christ’s ministry in our world has not changed. We are his agents called now to break over our suffering world in waves of mercy, justice, and joy.
Poetry: Tides – Mary Oliver
Every day the sea
blue gray green lavender
pulls away leaving the harbor’s
dark-cobbled undercoatslick and rutted and worm-riddled, the gulls
walk there among old whalebones, the white
spines of fish blink from the strandy stew
as the hours tick over; and thenfar out the faint, sheer
line turns, rustling over the slack,
the outer bars, over the green-furled flats, over
the clam beds, slippery logs,barnacle-studded stones, dragging
the shining sheets forward, deepening,
pushing, wreathing together
wave and seaweed, their piled curvaturesspilling over themselves, lapping
blue gray green lavender, never
resting, not ever but fashioning shore,
continent, everything.And here you may find me
on almost any morning
walking along the shore so
light-footed so casual.
Music: Tides of the Soul – Ty Burke
Lavish Mercy 