Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

My Companions pray with me: LORD, as we turn to you in praise and thanksgiving and seek forgiveness for our failures to live in the fullness of your love, take away our fear and make us whole; help us to hear and to speak of your glory. How can we accept your unconditional love if our hearing is impaired by fear? How can we speak of your glory when we're anxious about our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual well being? Help us to listen to your whispers in our lives.

Birthdays: MaryKate Weed (9/13), Taylor Smith (9/13). Anniversary: Evelyn & Jim Green (9/16)

Keeping In-touch: Once again, we've enjoyed a quiet week. We did attend the Labor Day TTA tennis social and we went to a movie with our friends Leo & Carmon. We made plans for our last summer camping trip to Hermit Park (the 14th & 15th) with Lori Beth, Tony & Nate. And we will enjoy visiting our friend Pat Dolan this weekend.

The Readings: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Some Commentary: Fr. John Foley, S. J.
My comments and an invitation for your comments: In our first reading this weekend we're told to "Be strong and fear not!" because God comes to save you. I experience being blinded and deafened by fear. Like others, I'm afraid to be my true self. I'm afraid to let others be. We live in a world and a church filled with fear, not without reason: can we drive with all the other crazies on the road? can we go to a movie or to school without the worry of another "going postal"? can we really welcome a stranger? We need to be prudent, but we need to trust in the love of the LORD.

Let us work to live without fear, trust in the LORD, and hear his whispers of the fullness of life!

John

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