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Theo Tigno•
6/22/2004 11:39 am
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Tuesday, June 22nd 2004 |
Psalm 48: 2-3, 3-4, 10-11
God upholds his city for ever.
Great is the LORD and wholly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, fairest of heights,
is the joy of all the earth.
God upholds his city for ever.
Mount Zion, "the recesses of the North,"
is the city of the great King.
God is with her castles;
renowned is he as a stronghold.
God upholds his city for ever.
O God, we ponder your mercy
within your temple.
As your name, O God, so also your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth.
Of justice your right hand is full.
God upholds his city for ever.
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for Dawn Webb, who has been diagnosed with cancer and endemetriosis.
I once was at a daily mass where the priest announced how the psalm response was not going to be done while he was presiding at mass because he wanted us to contemplate the first reading.
Yet, as I read today's psalm response, I thought back to his decision to omit the psalm response. The psalm response is the response of God's people to God's goodness. It is OUR response to the first reading. The psalms are great love songs to a Our Lord, who is more beautiful than anything in creation. It is a response that proclaims that ultimate goodness of Our Lord, and reveals the wonderful gift we have in being able to praise Our Lord. Our response to God's goodness is a gift we have all been given.
The Mass points to how our lives should be lived for the Mass is where we can be in heaven here on earth. In the same way that the psalm response should never be omitted from The Mass, our response to God's goodness should never be forsaken. Give glory to God in all that you do, and pray in thanksgiving for every gift we have been given. Take care and God Bless.
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