I. Readings
Psalms 65, 91, 125
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
Galatians 2:11-21
Matthew 14:1-12
II. Selections
Psalm 91:5
You will not fear the terror of the night,
or the arrow that flies by day ...
Ecclesiastes 3:11
[ God] has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Galatians 2:20b
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 14:12
[ John's] disciples came and took the body and buried it; then they went and told Jesus.
III. Meditation: Suitable for its time
You have made everything suitable
for its time, and you have given
us a sense of past and future.
Though we understand little
about what you have done,
of this we are confident:
The terror of the night, the arrow that flies by day-
John the Baptist did not escape them, nor can we;
we do not avoid them; but we need not fear them,
not if with Paul we can say: the life we now live
in the flesh, we live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved us and gave himself for us. Amen.
No comments:
Post a Comment