Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time
September 10, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091024.cfm
Jesus departed to the mountain to pray,
and he spent the night in prayer to God.
When day came, he called his disciples to himself,
and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles.
Luke 6:12-13
Jesus wants to have a real heart-to-heart with the Creator. He goes to the mountain – where he can lift his spirit above and away from distractions.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
Our minds can become so cluttered and distracted, can’t they? They can throw tons of static into our conversation with God.
How and where can our hearts be lifted into the sacred ambience of silence? Where can we go, both spiritually and physically, to hear the Infinity beyond yet within us?
Poetry: Morning Mountain Prayer – Norbert Krapf
Morning mountain air
calls me to sit outside
and let it caress
my knees and calves.Just after I settle
in a chair the sun rises
above a small divide
in the mountainand warm light slants
onto this yellow paper
across which the black
ink of a German pen
walks leaving word tracksthat knew all along
that in the end
near the bottom
of this pagethey would become
the thanksgiving prayer
I send to the universe.
Music: Gymnopédie No.1 – Erik Satie
Lavish Mercy 