2022-Jul-10: Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
2022-Jul-10: Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Opening prayer Heavenly Father, send forth your Spirit to enlighten our minds and dispose our hearts to accept your truth. Help us to listen to one another with openness and honesty, eager to learn from the talents and intuitions that you have given each of us. Never let differences of opinion diminish our mutual esteem and love. May we leave this meeting with more knowledge and love for you and your Son. In the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Theme of the liturgy Deuteronomy 30:10-14 The primary theme of Deuteronomy is God's covenant to the Jews - a binding promise made by Yahweh to Abraham, Sarah, and their descendants. In today's reading from Deuteronomy 30:10-14, Moses emphasizes the accessibility, transparency, and doability of the covenant and its laws and statutes to Jews at Moab about to enter the Promised Land. This passage echoes the Shema, the prayer that observant Jews pray twice daily, which beg...