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Saturday of week 27 of the year or Saints Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs or Saint John Leonardi, Priest

October 9th, 2010

"I will praise, you, Lord, with all my heart"
Psalm 9

Most of the religious poetry of Israel is preserved in the Psalter – a collection of 150 Psalms or Hymns used in public worship. The Psalms are a great source of spiritual riches for both Jews and Christians to-day. The Psalms were recited by Jesus himself, by Our Lady, the Apostles and early martyrs. The Church has adopted them unchanged for her official prayer. Every time the Eucharist is celebrated a Psalm or at least part of one is included in the Liturgy of the Word.

To-day we have Psalm 9, in which we thank God for His blessing to us in the past and ask His continued help for those who are suffering and oppresses. Some parts of this Psalm with it”’’s condemnation of the wicked may not appeal to us and we may prefer to pray with Our Lord on the Cross “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Prayer


Prayer : I thank you, Lord, with all my heart, I recite your marvels one by one. I rejoice and exult in you, I sing praise to your name, most High. May Yahweh be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold when times are hard. Those who acknowledge your name can rely on you, you never desert those who seek you, Yahweh. Psalm 9

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Just a Thought

The Eucharist

The manner in which we celebrate Eucharist and the reverence we give to it speak greatly of the sort of people we are. The following is a lovely story from the early Church which I came across recently: it might help us to understand what it means to be a member of the Church:

Cyprian of Cathage, wrote to his friend, Donatus: “It’s a bad world, Donatus, in which we live. But right in the middle of it I have discovered a quiet and holy group of people. They are people who have found a happiness that is a thousand times more joyful than all the pleasures of our sinful lives. These people are despised and persecuted, but it doesn’t matter to them. They are Christians, Donatus, and I am one of them.”

St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, describes how those people, the early Christians, bore witness to Christ and celebrated the Eucharist – i.e. the Mass; “The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions;… There was not a needy person among them…. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes…”

The Eucharist has consequences for the way we should live our lives. St. Augustine tells us that the Lord gave us these gifts of his Body and Blood so that we, too, might become these very things – i.e. his Body and Blood for the life of the world.

During the celebration of the Last Supper Jesus said, “I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.” Through us Christ is made present to our world. Our sharing in the Eucharist bonds us together with our brothers and sisters who have also been immersed into the life of Christ through the waters of Baptism.

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