2021 Tuesday 15th June (11th Tuesday of Ordinary Time) - Wonderment and Awe; Love of God, neighnours

 Psalms 8 

How great is your name, O lOrd our God, 

through all the earth! 

Your majesty is praised above the heavens; 

on the lips of children and babes

you have found praise to foil your enemy,

to silence the foe and the rebel. 

When I see the heavens, the work of your hands,

the moon and the stars which you arranged,

what is man that you should keep him in mind, 

mortal man that you care for him? 

Yet you have made him little less than a god;

with glory and honour you crowned him,

gave him power over the works of your hand, 

put all things under his feet. 

All of them, sheep and cattle, 

yes, even the savage beast, 

birds of the air and fish

that make their way through the waters. 

How great is your name, O Lord our God,

through all the earth! 

The response from us:

Let us praise the God whose mystery fills the universe with wonder

Blessed are you, O Lord our God; you created all things and pronounced them good: 

fill us with love for the works of your hands

Blessed is your holy and glorious name; you created male and female in your image - fil us with love for our brothers and sisters. 

When face with problems and troubles, to continue to be generous as like the churches in Macedonia in 2 Cor 8:1-9 

...and of how, throughout great trials by suffering, their constant cheerfulness and their intense poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity. I can swear that they gave not only as much as they could afford but far more and quite spontaneously, begging and begging us for the favour of sharing in this service to the saints...

Love your enemies

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers,[a] what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

The Lord calls us to a higher love that is painful and excruciating at times. 

The Lord's Forgiveness

And who, O my God would not place his confidence in you when he sees your merciful goodness? You pardon offences? You reward a hundredfold the least work done for you. You keep an account, not of our iniquities but of the slightest look cast towards you, of the least sigh from the heart, of the smallest tear shed.

Goodness is the very essence of my God and the redemption which he has brought to the world is infinite like everything that is in him. Infinite is his power, infinite is his wisdom, infinite is his mercy, infinite is his love for us and his zeal for our salvation. 

Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche (born 1915) was a French Visitandine and the foundress of the Bethany of the Sacred Heart community.