Lord, help us serve you well.
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THE
GOSPEL
Mark 6:30-34
They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them.
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Yesterday the crowd was
without answers or meaning, and, like
sheep without a shepherd.
They fled to
you.
Today we
are the poor and
also caretakers of the poor.
We are the sick, also the doctors.
We are immigrants and environmentalists.
We look for direction. We are people on the search.
We run to you, Jesus. Have pity on us.
Show us the way. And let us be
your shepherds
today.
THE
FIRST
READING
Jeremiah 23:1-6
I will appoint shepherds for them who will shepherd them so that they need no loner fear and tremble.
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Coffee workers in Guatemala
plead for fair prices.
Twenty million Africans have
a million awful dreads:
starvation, Ebola
Malaria
Aids …
Salvadorans,
fear
vermin
in their water.
Everywhere hungry people
sit down to empty
plates.
Lord, let us be shepherds like you.
Help us do what is
right and
just
Always.
THE
SECOND
READING
Ephesians 2:13-18
For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke down the dividing wall.
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The dividing wall is
broken.
Now
Jews and Gentiles, Catholics, Protestants,
Tree-huggers and developers,
conservatives, liberals,
men with women
can meet as
one.
Their meeting place
is Christ,
and
his
word
is peace.
Help us join them
in peace,
in
him.
Anne Osdieck
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Copyright ©
2015, Anne M. Osdieck. All rights reserved.
Permission is hereby granted to reproduce for
personal or parish use.
Art by Martin Erspamer,
O.S.B.
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical
Year (A, B, and C).
Used by permission of Liturgy Training
Publications. This art may be reproduced only
by parishes who purchase the collection in book
or CD-ROM form. For more information go to:
http://www.ltp.org/
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