8 Oct 2021
Painfully Pertinent
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For 8 October 2021, Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time, based on Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2
Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God!
Grain-offering and drink-offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
Sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly.
Gather the elders
and all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness spread upon the mountains
a great and powerful army comes;
their like has never been from of old,
nor will be again after them
in ages to come.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
08 October 2021 @ 9:23 pm
Beautiful and pertinent words to start the day—thank you for saying what we all need to hear.
09 October 2021 @ 1:04 am
Such powerful words for us as members of the Church, as well as members of our society, of our nation.
09 October 2021 @ 7:48 am
Thank You for naming the problem and inspiring us to “take it on”. Peace