St. Otteran, Monk
October 27th, 2010
"Listen Lord, and save me. Save your servant who trusts in you. I call to you all day long, have mercy on me O Lord"
Psalm 86
(Psalm 105) All your works shall give thanks to you O Lord, and all your faithful shall bless you. They shall speak the glory of your kingdom, and tell of your power.
The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in his deeds. The Lord upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.
The psalm is a hymn of praise in thanksgiving to God for his gracious care of all. The kingship is central, your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. God is faithful in all his words and loyal in all his deeds.
Prayer
Lord, we thank you for your splendour and greatness, guide our efforts to live in thankfulness and to bless your holy name. Amen.
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Just a Thought
Hope
John XXIII, referred to as the ‘caretaker Pope’, realising the widening gap between the Church and the world of his day, wrote: “An old world is disappearing. Another one is being formed, and with this I am trying to conceal some good seed or other that will have its springtime, even if it is somewhat delayed, and comes after I’m dead.”
Thomas Merton writes: “One must not give in to defeatism and despair: just as one must hope for life in a mortal illness which has been declared incurable.”
Even when dark clouds surround us, even when everything appears to be falling apart, we must continue to believe for a better future. Whatever the problem, there is a way forward.
So, my hope is in God alone because I believe in him; this is my faith. It is in him I put my faith and that faith, my belief in God’s love for me and all his creation, is the bedrock in which like an anchor, I put my hope. Together with that hope and faith is my love and fidelity in responding to that God in whom I live and move and have my being. In him I place my hope.
“Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:15-19).
