Today's Hour of Prime quotes Psalm 51.
Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice; as a sharp razor, thou has wrought deceit.
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness; and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
Thou hast loved all the words or ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Therefore will God destroy thee forever; He will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place, and thy root out of the land of the living.
The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say "Behold the man that made not God his helper,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches, and prevailed in his vanity.
Just a co-incidence that this Psalm came up during the DNC, right?
Right??
It is a fitting Psalm.
ReplyDeleteNone better.
Still the goal is to keep Gods commandments… all of them… and love God.
Which brings us to this:
A Meditation by Cardinal Newman
God has created me
to do him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me
which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission -
I may never know it in this life,
but I shall be told of it in the next.
I am a link in a chain,
a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught,
I shall do good,
I shall do his work.
I shall be an angel of peace,
a preacher of truth
in my own place
while not intending it -
if I do but keep
His Commandments.
Therefore, I will trust Him.
Whatever, wherever I am,
I can never be thrown away.
If I am in sickness,
my sickness may serve Him;
in perplexity,
my perplexity may serve Him;
if I am in sorry,
my sorrow may serve Him.
He does nothing in vain.
He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends.
He may throw me among strangers.
He may make me feel desolate,
make my spirits sink,
hide my future from me -
still He knows
what He is about.