THE GOSPEL
John 10:27-30No one can take them out of my hand.
Good
Shepherd,
let us hear you
in the beauty of our world,
in your poor, and in one another,
on the rocky and rough roads we travel.
Please pick us up
when our legs can walk no more.
Pull us from the brambles that snarl us:
climate, racism, divisions, Ukranian suffering.
Carry all our brothers and
sisters to safety.
Good Shepherd,
hold us close,
in your
arms.
Speak to our
hearts.
THE FIRST READING
Acts 13:14, 43-52
I have made you a light to the Gentiles.
Let us carry your light, your tidings, your beauty, your delight
to every nation, to every people who hunger for true life.
Transform us into love every moment of our being:
in how we live, what we do, for whom we care;
every one of our days, every season,
throughout all our years
till the end of
time.
THE SECOND READING
Revelation 7:9, 14b-17
They will not hunger or thirst anymore,
nor will the sun or any heat strike them.
Dorothy Day,
Gandhi, Oscar Romero:
they knew your hunger and thirst,
as you filled the hearts of each poor one
throughout this world.
They are the
love you
use
to
wipe
away
every tear
upon every face.
Let us love you
as they
did.
Let us
lay down our
lives for our friends.