Fr. Don's Daily Reflection
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
Weekday congregations at Mass in Catholic churches are usually a pretty stable group. There are others who suddenly appear at daily Mass for a week or two or even longer or for Lent. From one's own thoughts one can guess that some of these feel the need to storm heaven, as we say, for a family member undergoing treatment for cancer or for a teenage daughter who is a real worry or for help in a festering family situation.
Part of what we call the communion of saints is our ability to express in prayer our solidarity with others whether we know their sorrow or worry or not or know them personally. “How long, how long is the mourner's bench upon which we sit, arms linked in undeluded friendship, all of us, brief links, ourselves, in the eternal pity” (The Blood of the Lamb by Peter DeVries, p. 246.)
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
