March 11

March 11, 2014:  Tuesday, 1st week of Lent

Readings

• Is 55:10-11  My word shall be fruitful:  it won't return to me void but shall do my will.

• Ps 34:4-7, 16-19  "From all their distress God rescues the just."  The Lord has eyes for the just and is close to the brokenhearted; he saves the crushed in spirit.

• Mt 6:7-15  Your Father knows what you need.  Pray:  “Our Father....  Deliver us from evil.”  If you forgive, your Father will forgive you; if you don't, he won't.

Reflections

• Retreat on the spirituality of Pope Francis.  Invited to Believe in God's Love for Us:  audio, video

• Creighton:   The Our Father has inspired other prayers:  see Alternative Lord's Prayers including from the New Zealand Prayer Book, Emerging Church Movement, Dominican Sisters 1993 Retreat (Kansas), and a "retranslation" from the Aramaic.  See The Lord’s Prayer in 500 Languages [and dialects].

• One Bread One Body:  As God's Word, Lent can be fruitful/grace-ful, achieving the end for which God sent it, if we accept it through our obedience/repentance/self-denial.

• Passionist:  God the Father really knows me and still loves me tenderly and calls me.

• Universalis:  St. Aengus, monk/hermit

• Sacred Space

Music

• Russian Orthodox chant Our Father (gospel)
• Echo Our Father, from Communion Muse/ Garza (gospel)
• Our Father/ Malotte (gospel)
• Familiar Our Father chant (though sung more slowly and less as 'spoken on pitch') (gospel)

Apparel

• "Fruit" pin:  God's Word is fruitful (1st reading)

• "Eyeball" tie pin:  The Lord has eyes for the just (psalm)

• "Pierced hearts" suspenders:  God is close to the brokenhearted (psalm)

• "Kneeling person" tie bar:  "This is how you are to pray" (gospel)

• "Crowns" tie:  "Thy Kingdom come" (gospel)

• Purplish shirt:  Lent (season)

Dress your life!

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