Our Psalm
today is “Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations” and “Announce His
salvation day after day”
I want to
ask us all to think about a question: “Are we proclaiming God’s marvelous deeds
to all the nations?” and are you announcing
His salvation day after day?
If we are not
yet announcing God’s salvation day after day, what might that look like? I think a good place to start might be a line
that we pray at every Mass, and that line is when we ask God to “order our days
in His peace.”
I have found
that to be the case, over time, as I have turned my life over to Christ, slowly
and with fits and starts, He has ordered my life in His peace
What do I
mean by ordered? I mean that whereas
when I was younger, I felt a lot of times like my life and the world around me
were chaotic and I didn’t know which way was up, Christ has, over time,
grounded my feet, because it is a sickening feeling to not know where the
ground is. As a priest, I have found an
order in the rhythm of the day, daily Mass, a daily rosary, the Liturgy of the
Hours that all priests promise to pray several times throughout each day, there
is a comfort to that order which also still allows us also to be open to the
new things, the intrusions of the spiritually poor and or physically poor.
In fact, I
would say ordering our days according to God’s plan LEADS PRECISELY to our
ability to spot the needs of our neighbors better.
And
secondly, there is that word at the end – peace. Christ, through His Church, offers each
person peace…and in a world that seems to be attacking that Peace that Christ
offers, a world that is attacking that Peace more and more each day…woe to us
if we do not share what we have found in the Catholic Church, woe to us if we
sit on this Good News and keep it for ourselves.
May each of
us proclaim Christ’s marvelous deeds to all the nations and announce His
salvation day after day.
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