Like Calves Released from Winter Stalls--Feb. 7, 2016

[From Feb. 19, 2012 archive]

Rise for us, O Sun of Righteousness,

rise with healing in your wings,

for we need to be healed.

Come, O Heavenly Mother/Father, come;

like a compassionate parent come;

we need your compassion.

Come Lord Jesus, full of glory; unveil

our faces to behold your glory--

transform us in your image.

Then send us leaping out into the world,

calves released from winter stalls,

to tell crowds who you are.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Mal. 4:1-6

2 Cor. 3:7-18

Luke 9:18-27

Selected Verses

Ps. 103:13

As a father has compassion for his children,
          so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him.

Mal. 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.  You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

2 Cor. 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

Luke 9:18

Once when Jesus was praying alone, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"