Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
July 31, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/073124.cfm
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant
searching for fine pearls.
When he finds a pearl of great price,
he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.
Matthew 13:45-46
On this feast, our readings offer us a perfect understanding of what motivated the life of St. Ignatius Loyola – he gave everything to possess the pearl of eternal life.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
We pray the Suscipe of Ignatius, asking to deepen in our understanding of how we are called to holiness in our particular life circumstances.
Poetry: As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
Music: Take, Lord, Receive – John Foley, SJ
Take, Lord, receive all my liberty,
My memory, understanding, my entire will.
Give me only Your love and Your grace, that’s enough for me.
Your love and Your grace, are enough for me.
Take, Lord, receive all I have and possess.
You have given all to me, now I return it.
Give me only Your love and Your grace, that’s enough for me.
Your love and Your grace, are enough for me.
Take, Lord, receive, all is Yours now.
Dispose of it, wholly according to Your will
Give me only Your love and Your grace, that’s enough for me.
Your love and Your grace, are enough for me.
Lavish Mercy 